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- suprdaddy, on 11/30/2008, -3/+106100k+ salary for an "IT Worker" ? ***** WHERE?
- geodescent, on 11/29/2008, -1/+98Gastroenterologist (Average pay: $269,500)
Podiatrist (Average pay: $125,663)
Private Security Contractor in Iraq (Average Pay: $120,000)
IT Worker (Average pay: $103,400)
Crop Duster Pilot (Average pay: $53,870)
Crime-Scene Cleaner (Average pay: $50,400)
Roughneck (Average pay: $46,867)
Toll Collector (Average pay: $45,000)
Long-Haul Trucker (Average pay: $43,200)
Embalmer (Average pay: $42,400)
Sewer Inspector (Average pay: $34,960)
Crab Fisherman (Average pay: $29,000) - nerdherder, on 12/01/2008, -3/+86Since when does 29k fall under the "best pay" category?
And crop duster pilot is a awesome job. Someday you will get to save humanity by flying a plane up the butt of an alien mother-ship. How many people get to do that? - inactive, on 12/01/2008, -1/+681998
- addiktion, on 12/01/2008, -0/+41I was laid off at one of my jobs and was looking for work and a friend recommended I try working on an oil rig just to get some extra money while I was transitioning. They were transporting the oil rig to a different location and we had to set it up within a weeks time or sooner.
Let me tell you I have a new found respect for these guys even though they are *****. In my head I thought it can't be that bad but it was the most physically grueling job I've ever had done, or will ever do in my life again. I probably ripped every muscle in my body carrying around drill bits, steel beams, and being degraded by being called a "worm, useless, pathetic" non-stop because your the new guy doesn't help either. I can't tell you how many close calls to death I had too as you sit up on this rig 20-50 feet in the air. You work 12 hrs for a week straight and you then get a week off. I only came in during the middle of the week and here I'm lifting wires bigger then my fists over my head to get them out of the way from tripping. Let me tell you that the 12 hours off doesn't last that long, plus your sleeping with some big ass brutes who fart more then King Kong ever could. I was out like a light bulb and before I knew it I was being woken up again for a new day of busting my nuts. To this day I've never slept so soundly or solid. In just those 36 hrs (I didn't even make double overtime after 40 hrs) I had reeled in a $2,000 paycheck for not even a full work week. Granted I'm a small guy with a small build (140lbs). A light weight if you know what I mean but I wanted to see if I could do it and managed to finish out the week. I never went back after my first pay check. When I was waiting for my buddy I slept a full 9 hrs in my car just so I could make the trip home without dying, which I didn't think was possible. I then woke up for 5 hours for the trip home and went back to bed for another 18-24 hrs after that to recover from the week.
So the moral of this story is when I hear people bitch about their job I usually tell them to go try working on an oil rig for a week and then come back and bitch about their job to me when their done. I'm working in a cozy I.T environment again and I can't complain. - Hiltonizer, on 11/30/2008, -0/+33if IT worker includes Network Administrators... I'm getting *****.
- Evi1d33d, on 12/01/2008, -0/+29Is IT really in high demand? Because from what I found out it's all *****. The market is over saturated with people wanting to make a few quick bucks and companies are out sourcing jobs to India and even Canada. Most jobs require at least 5+ year experience just for the HR to take a glance at your resume. I know a guy that has couple years of IT experience yet he's unloading trucks at Walmart because it's so hard to find a stable job.
I'm pretty sure a lot of the diggers are in the IT fields, so is IT really in high demand job or is it just pure *****. - Elranzer, on 12/01/2008, -0/+25CIO salary throwing off the curve?
- hank25w, on 11/29/2008, -2/+26whore
- DiggCheeseFries, on 12/01/2008, -0/+23That bitch that gave me the crazy eyes while crossing into Delaware makes 45k?! Maybe she IS better than me!
- Elranzer, on 12/01/2008, -0/+22It's in high demand... of Indian workers.
For Americans making $107K, not so much. - bman1984, on 12/01/2008, -0/+22yeah dude, I don't know where they got that average salary from
- linagee, on 12/01/2008, -0/+19I'd like to see Mike Roe tackle Private Security Contractor in Iraq as a dirty job.
- DaltonP13, on 12/01/2008, -0/+17Well just think about it. They have have to pay them pretty good, because sitting in a tiny box for hours and hours of complete boredom has to be one ***** job. Its that 45k that keeps them from blowing their brains out during the 9 hour night shift.
- magamiako, on 12/01/2008, -1/+17IT jobs require a certain amount of stress and pressure that most people aren't able to keep up with. In fact, it's probably one of the most stressful jobs period. I'm talking about something such as Helpdesk, Network Administrator, Systems/Network engineers. Anyone in the "IT department" at a business.
A) The work usually requires overtime hours and working off hours. If you think a "9-5" is what you're going to get out of IT, think again. 9-5 is when everyone else works. You can't take a server down and maintenance it during everyone else's business hours, expect to have to do it after everyone leaves. This includes "everyone", even those guys that stay late to milk money from the company having phone sex on company time.
B) Being on call. Yes, another peril of IT. Think you have a weekend or even a night free to yourself? Like emergency workers, you're on call. Server goes down at 3AM? Not sure what took it down? You can guarantee you'll be in there before everyone else starts funneling in at 8/9AM.
C) Expected to know everything. When a doctor goes to school, they can be expected to learn just what they need to know to do their job. You wanting to be a dentist? Nobody's going to expect you to perform open heart surgery or diagnose why their bowel movements are extreme. In IT, you're expected to know everything. You're the "computer guy", you automatically know everything there is to know about tech. And if you don't, well, you're seen as incompetent. There are many job postings on careerbuilder and monster that are looking for something like a Windows admin, but "linux a plus". Or, I've seen "looking for network admin that knows everything about phones, cisco equipment, voip, windows, blackberry, oracle, linux, mssql".
D) You deal with everyone's *****. IT is a thankless job. The only time anyone ever really contacts you is if something is going wrong, or something breaks. Furthermore, if they have to contact you repeatedly because of something they're doing wrong, you're only going to hear more *****. You're automatically going to be going into a situation with an irritated office worker, who's already pissed they can't finish managing their friends on their myspace page. Block myspace on company time? Someone's going to complain to upper management, who's going to complain to IT. Remove Administrative rights from machines? Someone's going to bitch again that they can't install ultimate bet on their machine during their lunch hour. Oh, and if they get a virus on the machine and the network? Good luck with your job. Contrary to popular belief, IT nerds are MASTERS of the social art because of this.
E) All of the above on pretty much ***** pay and ***** working conditions. Unless you make the crossover into management, or start your own consulting firm, you're really going to be working on crappy pay. Your department is seen as a money pit. Businesses want to invest as little as possible into it as they manage the "risk", even though without IT these days their business wouldn't run. So while the marketing and art teams get big budgets, $5000 PCs with $1000 LCDs to make a single tiny ***** logo that you could design in MSPaint on a 386; you in IT get whatever's leftover from the last company upgrade. - GoKings, on 12/01/2008, -0/+15They make that 29k in just a few short months, or even a month.
- Yakovzoya, on 12/01/2008, -0/+15That comment, although it's a good point, makes me feel even worse about making $30k/year.
- Tzen, on 12/01/2008, -3/+16"Toll Collector (Average pay: $45,000)"
Very well paid. Over paid.
The kids at McD do more for a lot less money. - jeffkee, on 12/01/2008, -4/+17How do jobs under $100K make a list of "well paying" category jobs? WTF?
- Renian, on 12/01/2008, -0/+12They job they are describing for "IT Worker" is more like "Technical Support", saying that the reason why IT workers are so stressed is because of laymen (read: n00bs) who don't know where the hell the power button is. But if you're a Network Engineer or something, you should have to deal with them so much.
- DickyT83, on 12/01/2008, -2/+13Hence the word 'average'.
- asdffdas1234, on 12/01/2008, -0/+11Sounds about right when you eliminate the positions that do not actually require any special education, but the way the article put it they made it sound like they were referring to grunt support guy.
- spectxim, on 12/01/2008, -1/+12The other jobs sound alot nicer than IT Worker...
- asdffdas1234, on 12/01/2008, -0/+10There is always (rising) demand for highly educated and/or skilled IT workers, the rest not so much. If you have any experience with HR you would know that there is just so many almost down the the worthless skill-less "IT workers" out there that filtering the good ones can sometimes become a nightmare. So there are two things that they will look at education and experience, if you've got neither they will toss you right out.
- AquaOSX, on 12/01/2008, -1/+11That's not uncommon in the Bay Area or Valley with any reasonably sized company (say about 100+ employees). But, it costs a lot of live out here.
- sabach, on 12/01/2008, -0/+10As for me...
Best job/worst pay I've ever had = Recreation worker for the mentally retarded
Worst job/best pay I've ever had = Correction officer in a maximum security prison - inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+10Timber mills are just as tough.
Blades as big as a small room slicing through trees the size of trucks.
Flipping the sliced bastards over all day and then stacking 12 x 4 inch beams onto a crate.
Watching the forklift sway through mud and potholes with 1400 kg in the air, spears waiting for any excuse to make their revenge.
Everything in that place is trying to kill you, rip your arms out or skewer you like a piece of chicken.. - Tzen, on 12/01/2008, -1/+11It must be a union job.
- GoldenGlovez, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9From my personal experience, your piece of paper doesnt mean jack ***** in the IT world. It's what you can actually do with a computer, not how many classes you can attend after a night of partying. I was told this by two different employers.
- Klisk, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9Actually, for the longest time, Embalmer was my dream job. However, it's tough to find anyone to hire you on after schooling. Most funeral homes keep it in-the-family, so to speak, which makes it difficult. Trying to get a loan to start up your own funeral home is also quite the bitch.
- kingmanic, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9The downside: Expensive and by all reports often incompetent.
The upside: Your voter base doesn't care what happens to those contractors. Most people consider them scummy mercenaries. - calroot, on 12/01/2008, -0/+9I think they should've not used the term IT Worker, since its so broad. But if you say IT workers as in software developers, then they certainly make that salary range. And that would be the median salary.
- Elranzer, on 12/01/2008, -1/+9Pre-Outsourcing
- sibos, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8They list toll collector as making 45k, but here in Boston they can get over 70,000 per year.
http://blog.worcestercountyrepublicanclub.com/?p=7 ... - yunus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8Mental stress not physical stress is what there talking about. Dealing with people who break the systems you just made, then deny it, then blame you for it on a constant basis can be very stressful.
- regicide, on 12/01/2008, -3/+10Private Security Contractor in Iraq Average Pay: $120,000? Private armies actually outnumber our troops in Iraq. What about next year when Bush is gone? No more no-bid contracts for Blackwater and friends.
- diggum85, on 12/01/2008, -1/+8assistant crack whore
- brundlefly76, on 12/01/2008, -1/+8IT worker is a ridiculously broad category.
I know people who do phone tech support for minimum wage who are considered an 'IT worker' - at the same time I know IT department heads who make over $300k who are 'IT Workers'.
Even 'Network Administrator' is a broad category. The 'Network Administrator' of a 50-head sales organization does not have the same job as the 'Network Administrator' of a regional ISP, MMORPG, Fortune 500 company or local telecom.
Rather than the average salary, they should show the mean. - cquinnd, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7I deal with that all the time. It's actually pretty easy with a little practice. Vista is on the same basic level as XP, some screens are different and some repair functions actually work better, but figuring out what to do to get it online is about the same.
What's harder is still dealing with people who want help getting Windows 98 online, when half the tools and troubleshooting steps you are used to relying on do not exist on that platform. - PunkRockGeoff, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7I got a feeling the 104k statistic is correct but VERY skewed. It probably counts the morons with an A+ working for $10/hr working for Geek Squad along with Bill Gates..
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7IT workers not making less than 100k should either: a. spend a lot MORE time on digg or b. spend a lot LESS time on digg.
- fieldgreen, on 12/01/2008, -1/+8Fluffer.
- elf25, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6re> IT Worker (Average pay: $103,400)
WTF?? Who blew the curve? - inactive, on 12/01/2008, -1/+7It pays in AIDS.
- Murdats, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6it is in australia, don't know about where you are though.
- Klisk, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6Not a real job, unfortunately. More of an urban myth. Otherwise I'd be doing it for sure!
Drugs like cialis and viagra are used most commonly in the modern porn industry. However, even in the old days, fluffer wasn't actually a real profession, and the myth was moreso created by the pornstars themselves as a joke. There are tales, however, of a few fluffers actually being hired. But it was a rarity, not a standard. - jpa82, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6Pay is based on two things 1. Demand for that job vs. supply of people willing to do it and 2. Value the job brings to the employer. Throw ideas like getting paid what you deserve or a fair wage out the window. It all comes down to who is willing to put up with / can do this job for what minimum amount of money and that amount is what an employee is worth, nothing more.
- adam2112, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6I've been in IT for 8-9 years as a Network Admin, Network Engineer, and now Storage Engineer and still only make 45k per year.
- inactive, on 11/30/2008, -2/+8My brother and I were just talking today about the worst jobs we'd be willing to perform for a six-figure salary. I decided that I wouldn't clean up and re-pin dress shirts from a department store dressing room for less than $187,000. Of course, this comes from someone who cleaned up after birthday parties at an ice-skating rink in high school for minimum wage.
- yunus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6First, Murray State may be great but outside of Kentucky no one knows it. If your school is not internationally known or has a good basketball/football team employers in big cities far away have not heard of it. Second, are you trying to get an IT job in Kentucky, cause thats a major problem right there. Third, in this industry a big part is not what you know but who you know. I got my first real IT job because the lead IT guy was a friend.
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