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Re: Ask HN: What skills $100/hour - $200k/year

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Post by gte910h » Sun, Dec 19, 2010, 5:38 PM UTC

gte910h wrote: post #13

HackyGeeky wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks gte910h - What entails "embedded work in general" ? Can you be a bit specific ?

Designing embedded devices, code + hardware, or supervising a team doing so. Like displays, cable set top boxes, etc. Usually in C, doing stuff like embedded Linux or QNX, etc. Not all work doing that mind you is in that range, only ones where you do a lot of work very well, often in very large companies. I've seen comparable rates coming out of consulting firms doing that stuff in the area as well. I bet Scientific…

About that bank thing: Friend of mine works there, they really are looking hard, let me know via a message to my email and I'll look up a posting/email address for you.

I believe they do the massive simulations/calculations which generate the daily interest rates there, but am not sure so much.

Re: Ask HN: What skills $100/hour - $200k/year

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Post by mping » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:17 PM UTC

base wrote: post #12

contractors for highly expensive business software can go above that (example: SAP, Oracle Retail etc)

Same for the SOA/EAI scene, it has some jobs that require expertise, but the consulting pay is usually 500€/hr and more. Think TIBCO/webMethods products. Just to have an idea, these products are usually sold in the order of million(s) of €, normally used by banking, telcos or any other big company.

Re: Ask HN: What skills $100/hour - $200k/year

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Post by simplyJump » Tue, Dec 21, 2010, 12:05 AM UTC

gexla wrote: post #19

Quotes from your post... "After that I calculated I'll need a 200k/year job in the south east (think that makes 400k/year in the west)." "If coding can't get me that, what type of consulting can I do which gets paid that much." So, which is it that you are looking for? A job? Or consulting / contracting? The two are very different. Because you mentioned Python and Javascript together, I'm assuming you are looking to…

Correct. I understand python/JS won't get me that pay. But I have 2 years I can learn and build experience in. I need to know what in.

I see MS-CRM, WebMethods, Tivoli etc. That's what I was looking for.