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Posted by brzina :) on 10/27/02 11:23
On 8 Aug 2005 15:14:24 -0700, reciprocity85@gmail.com wrote:
> That said, know that I am currently in a salaried position, 24 hours
> (effectively 3 days) per week, at $20 per hour.
Now I'm depressed :(
I'm 19 years old (born on July, 29. 1986), just finished highschool, got
into informatics college(17th from 120 on the rank list), an official Mensa
member with an IQ > 172, started programming 4 years ago...
....I've been working for 2 years now for a firm which makes web sites, cd
postcards and all sorts of other multimedia. I've started as a part time
intern programer, and today I'm the lead web programmer(3 other older
programmers are in my command) with excelent knowledge of php, javascript,
xhtml, css, actionscript and mysql. I also know my way around c, c++, c#,
vb6, vb.net and asp but don't use it on a daily basis. Working for this
firm I have developed a commercial cms(based on lamp, supports templates,
modules, multiple languages, frontend style administration, built in
wysiwyg editor...) which I've used to develop ~15 sites so far this year,
and ~20 sites last year. I have also developed a simple web based resources
planing system for our internal needs which is used daily by every single
employe, and have helped programming a couple of cd postcards when the guys
in charge of action script encoutered some problems that they couldn't
solve.
And know to explain why I'm depressed: I live in Croatia, my boss is one of
those that don't care about the employes much and even worse doesn't pay
much, I work ~6h a day(most of the time even saturdays and sundays) + I go
to school(on the fall college)...
Now guess how much do I earn?
Somewhere between 850 and 900$ per a month!!! :((
(Croatian averege is 600 - 700$)
And plus, by the law, beacause I still go to school/college I can't be a
reqular employee so they are paying me over a schoolarship which means that
they get benefits from the state, they don't have to pay my healt insurance
and all the other things that they would normally have to...
This is why life sucks if you live in Croatia and are not rich so you have
to work, even if highly underpaid, in order to be able to pay for your
education.
And then you ask yourselfs why outsourcing is so popular!
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