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The Job Market Bait-and-Switch (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 11 points 11 months ago (16 children)

I'm much the same.

I can't leave my geographic area for very good reasons, and I will in IT support. I'm experienced enough to be a "senior" support tech. But the average going rate in my area for my job is about 60k/yr. That sounds great until I tell you that I'm in Canada and that's Canadian dollars, which is about 43k/yr USD.

The state of the market here is embarrassing and I can't find jobs hiring for remote workers, or anything local enough that I could feasibly commute, that pays enough for it to be worth it to even apply.

If I do find a posting that's close it's a 1.5hr commute away and pays about the same as my current work from home gig.... Despite the toxicity, why would I take a job I need to spend an additional 3+ hours in a car to do the same work, with potentially the same toxicity, for the same pay?

I fucking hate everything.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    In in the same boat as you, right down to the industry. Except I'm in the US and I'm only experienced enough to be a level 2 tech.

    I have a friend tracking down a hybrid position lead at his company, but the commute for the in person days would be 1.5 hrs at least one way. He's going to be seeing what the pay is and how many days I'd need to be in the office so I know if it'd be worth it. I don't want to waste my time and the time of his coworkers if the pay and schedule wouldn't be right.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

    Considering I've been doing this stuff for over a decade and have met less than a handful of people with the same technical expertise as I have, and I haven't met anyone that's more skilled... I'm pretty sure I should be making at least 6 figures.... Nobody will pay that much for what I do.

    I'm not trying to brag or anything. It's just that I keep ending up in the position of having to educate everyone around me on how things actually work, and how to fix them. I spend more time in the bowels of Windows operating systems that the registry makes sense to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Damn that really sucks. I'm sorry you aren't appreciated for your skills and have to take on the role of teacher instead of doing your actual work.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    I end up doing both and then management sees a gap in my time entries where I was helping someone, and they come down on me for not doing enough.

    It's as if, if I'm not doing billable tasks, then I'm lazy and I'm not working.... Because y'know, I show up to work and just fuck around all day unless I'm being watched constantly by management.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Yo I totally get that time entry shit. I get automatic hate mail from my boss if I don't hit 6 hrs of billable time. There's a lot of unbillable duties I do in my position, so a lot of days I don't hit my 6 and it's annoying as fuck.

    My boss is also a passive aggressive pos that I could rant about all day.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I get hate mail if my total time entered is less than 9 whole assed hours.

    They want to know when I take a shit for fucks sake. What are they going to do, reprimand me if I take 20 minutes to take a dump?

    "What were you doing that entire time?"

    "Taking a shit"

    "It doesn't take 20 minutes to take a shit"

    "Maybe for you"

    ....

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    seems like alot of tech and biotech have commutes equally around 1.5hrs on average 1 way with public transportation. alot of them seemed to based outside of major cities.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I live outside of a large city and would be commuting into it. Wanting to live kinda rural and work in tech was not a good idea, but I'm in too deep now. -_-

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    oh yea in west coast thats where the tech/biotech buildings are. just not easy commute, even with a car is somewhat painful unless you can find something in the city you are living in.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I'm in the easterm part of the country on top of everything else. In a very poor area. I'm looking at a commute if I can't find a remote position. I currently work fully remote because I am very immunocompromised. I'm terrified of even hybrid positions getting me ill. I caught a cold that's slowly turning into pneumonia and I just can't fight it off. I have the feeling I'm going to end up hospitalized from it.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Housing is absurd here, and IT is already saturated and now they are inviting the H1B workers here to virtue signal.

    What a clown show

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    im not surprised programming and IT has been marketed to india for a long time, as they see as the most stable job out there. Indians do go for grad schools(ms, MD) but those are usually a different set, usually more well off class of indians.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    i was going to say, 60k is pretty low for it, its usually around 100k in the us on average. but i suspect its mostly HCOL areas that are paying that much. i know colleges and universities around me pay around the same as your CANadian job, like 45k starting.

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