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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> "The position is for someone who is interested in the progression to
> full team leader capacity. Hands on and hands off."
>
> No idea what that last is supposed to mean.
It means a team leader involved in doing the work (hands on) and a team
leader who merely provides directions (hands off).
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Warp wrote:
> Maybe it means "Unix operating systems in general, but especially Linux
> and Solaris, and from all Linux distros especially Red Hat".
In my experience, no, it just means the person putting together the list
doesn't know what they're talking about, literally. They have a pile of
paper with a list of skills different people told them they were looking
for, so they wrote them all down. I suspect if you asked the person who
wrote the ad what kind of software each of those was, they'd say "I don't
know", even tho the answer is listed on the same line. Either that, or
they're optimizing for search engines, just plugging in what everyone might
search for.
I've been turned down for jobs because they were advertising for ISO and TCP
networking and I wrote I know both the OSI and the IP stack.
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Maybe it means "Unix operating systems in general, but especially Linux
> > and Solaris, and from all Linux distros especially Red Hat".
> In my experience, no, it just means the person putting together the list
> doesn't know what they're talking about, literally.
Hey, I was just giving the author the benefit of the doubt. No need to
be a cynic in everything... :P
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Warp wrote:
> Hey, I was just giving the author the benefit of the doubt.
Fair enough. :-)
> No need to be a cynic in everything... :P
It's only cynicism when it's not true. ;-)
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>> Anyway, at the moment the worrying thing is that a basic search for my
>> chosen target area turns up only jobs a significant physical distance
>> beyond my experience level].
>
> So you are looking or a job that pays more than your current one, but
> not too much more?
department or something, which is beyond my skills and experience.
hadn't realised that there are real people out there who actually earn
this much money. And yes, in retrospect that sounds kinda silly...)
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Warp wrote:
>> "We're ideally looking for someone who hasn't come from a small company
>> and are used to large infrastructure."
>
>> "Someone" is singular, "are" is plural. Your grammatical numbers do not
>> agree.
>
> "Infrastructure" ought to be in plural as well.
Well.. that one's more debatable. "I'm used to large infrastructure" is
about as valid is "here are lots of sheep". (I.e., "sheep" doesn't have
a plural.) But if you wrote infrastructure as plural, that would be
correct also.
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On 30-1-2010 23:08, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Anyway, at the moment the worrying thing is that a basic search for
>>> my chosen target area turns up only jobs a significant physical
>>> presumably beyond my experience level].
>>
>> So you are looking or a job that pays more than your current one, but
>> not too much more?
>
> department or something, which is beyond my skills and experience.
Once I did a quick computation on how much you would get if you would
accept an offer to work in my group. I can not find that e-mail but IIRC
it was in that ballpark. Offer is not valid yet, we still haven't got
the project.
If you are paid significantly less now, you are underpaid. But we have
been through that already.
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>> department or something, which is beyond my skills and experience.
>
> Once I did a quick computation on how much you would get if you would
> accept an offer to work in my group. I can not find that e-mail but IIRC
> it was in that ballpark. Offer is not valid yet, we still haven't got
> the project.
>
>
> If you are paid significantly less now, you are underpaid. But we have
> been through that already.
Hypothetically such people probably exist, but I don't think I've ever
met one.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I currently get £14,000 a year. Which isn't a lot of money.
Dude, that's not even minimum wage here.
> never [knowingly] met anybody who earns anywhere near £30,000 a ye
ar.
You definitely need to move. That's not even college graduate money here.
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On 31-1-2010 18:38, Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > I currently get £14,000 a year. Which isn't a lot of money.
>
> Dude, that's not even minimum wage here.
Minimum wage here is £14,373.74 (€=alt-0128 £=alt-156 and ü=alt-129 but
that was not the question) if I computed it right
>> never [knowingly] met anybody who earns anywhere near £30,000 a year.
>
> You definitely need to move. That's not even college graduate money here.
Seconded. Feeling like talking to a wall.
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