Transparent--great first few episodes

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Everyone hates an IPOD

@rojoloco Looks like chili sauce to me. The kind you can get at asian markets

@quixoticjeremy said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I am celebrating Man Day with a ton of my friends this weekend and will be thoroughly drunk. Can't wait.

Isn't Man Day the saturday of the draft?

Not a football guy, no idea. This is a yearly thing we do though. over a hundred people I know all over the country head to my friend Adam's house

I am celebrating Man Day with a ton of my friends this weekend and will be thoroughly drunk. Can't wait.

@scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@wirestyle22 said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@tirendir said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

Experts = expensive in the minds of most businessmen I've ever met

No. The SMB expects you to be an expert anyway. They just won't pay you what you are worth. You see this anytime anything goes wrong at all.

They really don't. They rarely even expect competence.

Every job I've ever had they expect me to know every aspect of everything, always.

@tirendir said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

Experts = expensive in the minds of most businessmen I've ever met

No. The SMB expects you to be an expert anyway. They just won't pay you what you are worth. You see this anytime anything goes wrong at all.

@scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@wirestyle22 said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@irj said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

Something that I learned from watching people fail at this (not in IT, just in jobs in general) is that there is a trend to take lower pay, lower responsibility jobs hoping to have more free time and more flexibility - thinking that it is a trade off. But in reality, it is not. It just makes you worth less in the eyes of the employer. It takes away your leverage - both in house and with other firms. The more you earn where you are, the more power you have to make that or more elsewhere. The more power you have to leave, the more incentive there is to give you flexibility to stay.

In the real world, people making six figures get way, way more flexibility, work from home, low stress, fun and challenging and just generally better job positions than people making, say, $50K. There are exceptions, of course, but in general with as much else equal as possible, the higher your salary, the more flexibility you will get with it. Soft benefits increase with hard ones.

You get treated much better when making $100k vs $50k as well.

Your pay should parallel your value to the company

Yes, but people often think that if they give up pay that people will appreciate their financial sacrifice and treat them even better while making less. But this essentially never plays out in the real world, or if it does, not for long.

That has been my experience, yeah

@irj said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

@scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

Something that I learned from watching people fail at this (not in IT, just in jobs in general) is that there is a trend to take lower pay, lower responsibility jobs hoping to have more free time and more flexibility - thinking that it is a trade off. But in reality, it is not. It just makes you worth less in the eyes of the employer. It takes away your leverage - both in house and with other firms. The more you earn where you are, the more power you have to make that or more elsewhere. The more power you have to leave, the more incentive there is to give you flexibility to stay.

In the real world, people making six figures get way, way more flexibility, work from home, low stress, fun and challenging and just generally better job positions than people making, say, $50K. There are exceptions, of course, but in general with as much else equal as possible, the higher your salary, the more flexibility you will get with it. Soft benefits increase with hard ones.

You get treated much better when making $100k vs $50k as well.

Your pay should parallel your value to the company

@ambarishrh Happy Birthday!