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I did about 4-5 years of manual labor, factory work, catering, whatnot between the time I graduated to the time I got my IT job.
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working 80hrs a week and stressed out with no support from the boss and offered a new job with 35hrs a week and 10k more and hugely better benefits you bet I left.
If the management would have been handling the stressers in the job would I have been looking? Probably not. So the money was nice but the reason for looking was management. In almost all my moves to new jobs the motivating factor has always been management.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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There can allways be a better job elsewere!
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison
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I was working as a contractor. My partner was hired in to a full-time slot, and six months later so was I. 24 years later, I'm still here.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: 24 years later, I'm still here.
WOW! That's impressive!
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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Thanks. To quote a line, what a long strange trip it's been  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Only 24 years?
Rookie! 
I'm at 35.9 years!
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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<Bowing, with hands over head>
We're not worthy! We're not worthy!
</Bowing, with hands over head>
Matt T Heffron wrote: A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
I'm going to have to try that. Lord knows the current whinging and complaining doesn't seem to help  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Its True for every one "No money no work"
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There are mutiplichoices at real.
For example Money+Stagnation or Location+Downsizing.
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But if/when I change next time I want to fill in multiple choices.
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My last paid position was in Over The Road trucking with serious pressure to run outlaw, tired, and for not much money. Finding the Old - Black - Obese disease an impediment to returning to a paid IT developer/support occupation.
Old = ~50 years old
Black = Race, can be any ethnic minority
Obese= Body Mass Index well over 30
Free your mind and the rest will follow,
Don't be colorblind, don't be so shallow!
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This so-called "survey is missing a vital option:-
The person who has ALWAYS been their own employer!
(And therefore the question makes zero sense)
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Excellent point - there are many people who run their own micro-software vendor shops.
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........
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Promoted to a job which was outside my skills (too much pointless politics), so moved sideways to a job of my design and interest.
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For me, I would've checked everything except for getting fired.
I would also add the commute since the company moved to some crappy office building in the middle of nowhere because they were too cheap to rent a real building.
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I worked for a government contractor, and due to my not having a degree, they refused to make me a senior developer. This was due to them not being able to charge the government extra for my services.
Another downer was I was working on the same project for 10 years, that never made it to the field to be used. It got kind of old working on an application no one used, but the government kept throwing money at to add new features.
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After 33 years in the consulting business and having lived through the mainframe era, the mini-era, the PC revolution, the Chip wars, the Unix civil war, the Introduction of the Internet, the rise of the various Unixs, the stagnation of Microsoft...I had enough.
Every 18 months I had to re-learn (mostly) everything. I decided that I was not going to do the latest cycle and so on a monday in September I wrote my resignation letter and left on Friday.
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Likewise. Having tried retirement once before and getting talked into returning to work, I decided to finish the job (accidental pun) and retired again.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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only 16% to money strange 
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Why?
Money isn't that important really; or at least not when you reach a "certain level" which varies from person to person. Provided you have "enough to be comfortable" 5% more, 10% more, even 25% more isn't going to make a huge difference.
Would you move to a job you knew would be boring, with colleagues you dislike, for 20% more than you get at your current job which you enjoy, with good mates? What if it was going to take you an extra hour each way to get there? Still worth it?
Money isn't everything.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Exactly. I get paid less than I could get elsewhere (especially in the city), but my quality of life benefits far outweigh the additional cash.
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you are right,
It is the law of marginal diminishing return
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OriginalGriff wrote: Money isn't everything.
You wouldn't last five minutes in a bank with that attitude!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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