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Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by Lawtonfogle »

mehrzad wrote: post #19
carsongross wrote: post #9

Once again, we see the terrible effects of there being not enough technical talent here in the United States. As we are constantly told by the VCs and large tech firms, we need to open up the green card immigration program to allow developers in who will do the jobs that Americans just won't do. Like, for example, being a full stack web developer who does QA, customer support and data scrubbing for 12 bucks an hour w…

I get you're being sarcastic, but I've heard that immigration doesn't actually have an deliberate effect on wages.

H1B isn't like normal immigration in its effects on wages. They do come over here, but they are at the mercy of their employer to stay. This makes it so the employee can be far more abused (paid lower, working far more hours in worse conditions, ect.). A legal immigrant may be willing to work for a bit less, but since they are able to seek another job without being kicked out, they would have little effect if any on wages. An H1B can't fight and either has to take it or leave and be replaced by someone who is willing to be exploited. Thus they have a far great impact on lowering wages.

There are protections under the law that are susposed to prevent this but they are wildly ineffective.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by Lawtonfogle »

rb2k_ wrote: post #23
mehrzad wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get you're being sarcastic, but I've heard that immigration doesn't actually have an deliberate effect on wages.

The H1B that is mostly talked about when it comes to IT jobs and imimgration requires companies to pay at least the prevailing wage for the area in question. So on average, it should either have wages stay the same OR raise them a tiny bit

In theory this works. In practice, jobs are misclassified and the relationship is otherwise abused in the employer's favor.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by defen »

forloop wrote: post #52
mantas wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't go that way. Seriously. It's better to offer your services for free to local non-profits than work for peanuts. The main thing is that clients who pay the lowest also treat you the worst. You'll meet a lot of unreasonable demands and overally crappy people while working those very low wage projects. Go to your local non-profits and offer them your services for free. Be clear that you're just learning and that's…

If they pay by the hour, then I don't care if they want me implement odd requests. I need some money. Not much. $3 per hour is more than enough—since I have another source of passive income. I've done a little web design freelancing in the past, so know what to expect. The worst part about freelancing is feature creep, IMO. Which isn't an issue, if I get paid per hour. I've thought it through. I'm in the UK and could…

Hey man...this is crazy to me that you would do dev work for $3 per hour. If you put your contact info in your profile I'll send you a month's salary at that rate if you promise to spend that month leveling up properly instead of doing annoying / one-off / generally shitty work for poorly-paying clients. Trust me, the people who are only willing to pay $3/hour are not who you want to be working for. Once you're good you should be able to find a job paying at least 10x that, so you'll be able to pay me back with a day or two of work.

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by forloop »

defen wrote: post #85
forloop wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they pay by the hour, then I don't care if they want me implement odd requests. I need some money. Not much. $3 per hour is more than enough—since I have another source of passive income. I've done a little web design freelancing in the past, so know what to expect. The worst part about freelancing is feature creep, IMO. Which isn't an issue, if I get paid per hour. I've thought it through. I'm in the UK and could…

Hey man...this is crazy to me that you would do dev work for $3 per hour. If you put your contact info in your profile I'll send you a month's salary at that rate if you promise to spend that month leveling up properly instead of doing annoying / one-off / generally shitty work for poorly-paying clients. Trust me, the people who are only willing to pay $3/hour are not who you want to be working for. Once you're good…

You are one generous person!

I'd rather do the work. I intend to code in my free time, so can level up regardless.

Thanks a ton for the offer, anyway!

Re: WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)

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Post by astolarz »

harkyns_castle wrote: post #22
McRask wrote: post #11

All this is missing is an experience requirement for longer than some technology has existed.

Those ones really crack me up. Its the first filter of the clowns that have no idea what they're talking about. The other glaring one that normally gets/got me back in the day that Java == JavaScript to all agencies.

The problem with the logic in your last statement is that you're using == when you should be using ===.
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