Dan Foster <s...@evilphb.org> writes: > Net equation? Worth it to pay someone a lot to take the risks.
I spent some time looking into this a few years back... seeing if I could trade a little risk for a little money. I found plenty of six figure cable monkey gigs in Iraq, but I was making six figures here where nobody was shooting at my fat ass. It seemed to me that most of the higher end technical stuff they didn't really need on site. "The contempt of risk, and the presumptuous hope of success, are in no period of life more active than at the age at which young people choose their professions. How little the fear of misfortune is then capable of balancing the hope of good luck, appears still more evidently in the readiness of the common people to enlist as soldiers, or to go to sea, than in the eagerness of those of better fashion to enter into what are called the liberal professions." - Adam Smith In short, from what I've seen, danger pay is a difficult way to bridge that (seemingly rather large) gulf between $100K/yr and $200K year. (though, with tax benifits and per diem, the $100K cable monkey job would have come close, if you place no actual value on the 'hazard' and on living in a place that foreigin (and that hates you that much) for a year) Personally, I'm trying to reach above regular salary (which seems to top out around $120K here in my neck of the woods) by running my own company. All of the SysAdmins I know who broke $200K did it by starting their own company. (now, I'm not anywhere near that, yet. I'm personally making about 1/3rd what I did working for other people. but the revinue graph is going up at a fairly steady pace, and unlike working for others, there's no reason why my revinue will stop going up when I hit $120K or so.) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
