nosnowski wrote:
> down_hill;168765 Wrote:
>>
>> Tires or wheels do not simulate edges very easily. Speed + slope +
>
> IT salaries in Australia are holding reasonably well but given all the
> competition from India I will not be surprised if they start going down.
> Luckilly I am more on the telecom side of IT which can't be easily
> outsourced :-)
>
I have enough safety equipment for other stuff I will just stick with
skiing on Northeastern Firm. I bought a rock climbing helmet as NY
speedway has a regulation that over the wall crew has to wear a helmet
they do not care what kind a bicycle one would be useless but permitted.
I might use the helmet for a charity bike ride for one of my high school
class who died at 26 it is really comfortable.
My focus was small office home office type clients so I did phone data
and database stuff and often brought on to trading floors to deal with
novell/windows3.11 & workgroups & lantastic issues when it involved
cooperation between the offending network and everybody was pointing
fingers.
My reason for the IT pay decreasing is much less hands on per individual
user. The base knowledge of the people not in IT using the pc or
whatever has increased you can not be working in a office and not know
word or excel at that point & you know what a file is. I think that at
this point in time there are very few jobs that do not involve some
aspect of computer and they are not rolling over and having massive
issues like they once had in the 80's and 90's.
Being a coder or working on low volume specialty stuff like race car
data acquisition equipment is a sure source of work if you can handle
the environment. There might be ten guys in the country that work on
multiple data acquisition manufacturers equipment I am a factory trained
support person for 3 and do service four other types. I build
competition wiring harness to aircraft and mil specs. Much like walking
the streets of nyc from one client to an other I walk the paddock and on
most weekends thursday to sunday and have 12 hours days in the sun or
rain. Then I go back to hotel and research issues for next day. As user
of technology race drivers are more abusive in total than any other type
user group and the stress makes a wall street trading floor like
kindergarten.