The surreal experience of my first developer job

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 12:30 AM UTC

claudiawerner wrote: post #217

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #106

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>UK IT salaries are really low Maybe compared to the crazy US salaries you see here, but compared to continental Europe, CoL adjusted UK salaries are difficult to beat and also you have a lot more interesting opportunities there vs here where it's mostly small web-shops or big name consultancy sweatshops. Wanna see low (CoL adjusted) tech salaries? Try Spain/Italy/Austria/France where they shaft you with high taxes a…

CoL adjusted UK salaries for anyone from junior to mid-level are terrible, and saving even 1/3 of your income on that kind of salary is hard. Not to mention, the lower CoL areas (and correspondingly low salaries) generally just aren't nice places to be. The idea that you can pay someone 24k/year to write C and Python filling a "junior" role that requires two years of expirence is crazy. Even if you adjust for healthc…

Post by mrlonglong » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 9:59 AM UTC

QuantumG wrote: post #216

mrlonglong wrote: post #49

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Netflix is running a show about deLorean and the chap who ran the whole thing. Ended up in jail for drugs smuggling.

Yeah, you should probably watch the rest of that documentary. He successfully defended himself as the people trying to sell him the drugs were the police - and never had any drugs. Entrapping a desperate man trying to save his company - which honestly could have been the biggest car company in the world if they'd manage to hold on a few more years (and BTTF still happened) - is really not that hard.

Post by CRConrad » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 5:02 PM UTC

QuantumG wrote: post #216

mrlonglong wrote: post #49

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Netflix is running a show about deLorean and the chap who ran the whole thing. Ended up in jail for drugs smuggling.

Yeah, you should probably watch the rest of that documentary. He successfully defended himself as the people trying to sell him the drugs were the police - and never had any drugs. Entrapping a desperate man trying to save his company - which honestly could have been the biggest car company in the world if they'd manage to hold on a few more years (and BTTF still happened) - is really not that hard.

Post by CRConrad » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

nineteen999 wrote: post #246

Had to laugh at the giving away of Fosters beer ... it's an Australian beer but nobody in their right mind here drinks it. Only place I've even seen people drink it is in the UK.