[AusNOG] Off Topic - Brisbane recruitment recommendations

Matt Palmer mpalmer at hezmatt.org
Fri May 13 16:38:06 EST 2016


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 03:51:13PM +1000, Mark Newton wrote:
> It angers me to think about how many skilled IT people I’ve known over the
> years who’ve exited the industry because they get better pay, conditions,
> advancement opportunities, and satisfaction from painting houses than they
> did in their old jobs.  So much lost experience; so much unnecessarily
> retarded progress; so few lessons learned.

Additional data point: I earnt more as a *trainee* train driver (let alone
after I finished my training) than I did in the IT job I was in before I
went off to go play trains.

- Matt



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