On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 16:06, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> wrote: > On 11/14/2011 03:45 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I can vouch for this. I am not a CS major and I consider myself a Linux > amateur, but I have worked supporting various Linux servers for locals. Of > course, I was making nowhere near the level of income that Shahar discusses > on his blog, experience wins hands-down in that department. > > Here's an important point. It is okay to claim that I'm charging too much, > or that my salary expectations are too high. There is no law that says that > software guys are entitled to high salary ranges. >
I did not argue that you charge too much! Quite the opposite, I stated that I may have been cheaper _per_hour_ but that came at the price of experience and that experience is preferable. I am sorry if it did not read so clearly. > Except > > I had no problem at all in getting similar salary ranges as an employee. > This means that, as far as market worth is concerned, I was not > overcharging. I was asking for a reasonable (in its supply and demand > meaning) compensation for my expertise and know-how. > > Now, obviously, the market is not willing to pay those numbers to > consultants, which means that I moved on to being an employee. What I'm > wondering, however, is whether this is truly because people of my experience > level (in terms of salary as employee) are of not enough demand, or whether > (as I've been implying) there is some form of market failure at play here. > The market failure is called a race to the bottom. It is a well-known phenomenon. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
