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Really? I think there are more over-payed programmers than there are earning a fair wage. Besides that, what's fair is determined in large part by your local cost of living. In San Antonio, my salary is considered to be a goog chunk of change.
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what's fair is determined in large part by your local cost of living
Ah, quite true. Glad to hear you're earning what is fair. :)
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
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Yes, I thought I was fairly compensated at the time. I paid my college tuition by programming for professors the University of Texas in 1969-70 in Fortran. Later I was paid to work as a programmer on a research project that paid until I graduated in 1973.
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1976. At $5 an hour, I suppose it wasn't really fair, but it was only one task of many I did as a lab tech for a university, and lab techs are typically paid very poorly. Writing an OS and Assembler for the Altair 8800, after rebuilding it from a botched job by my predecessor, then designing and building interfaces to an ASR33 Teletype terminal and a Varian minicomputer that was, itself, emulating an IBM 1103 was interesting and fun, but not very profitable... :-D
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Roger Wright wrote:
At $5 an hour, I suppose it wasn't really fair, but it was only one task of many I did as a lab tech for a university, and lab techs are typically paid very poorly. Writing an OS and Assembler for the Altair 8800, after rebuilding it from a botched job by my predecessor, then designing and building interfaces to an ASR33 Teletype terminal and a Varian minicomputer that was, itself, emulating an IBM 1103 was interesting and fun, but not very profitable...
That sounds like some serious fun!! :-D
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
I was still in college when I got my first coding job. Due to that they considered me an intern while having no intern affiliation/credit with the school. The pay was a mighty $8 an hour. A big jump from the $5.70 an hour I was making working a cash register. That was round about 1999.
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
My first "programming gig" was in 1970 - progam was "Hello World" in FORTRAN and I got an "A" for the assignment :rolleyes:
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
1980, writing FORTRAN, I had four programming classes under my belt (I was a college student at the time). I was being paid $6.00/hour, and the folks I worked for billed my time at $35.00/hour to the client. Through my college career I programmed in FORTRAN, in 8085 and 8086 assembly language, managed several VAXen, and even spent several months as a technical writer. Considering that I learned as much or more from my job as I did my classes, yeah, I was fairly compensated.
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
March / April 1997. $7 an hour doing work for a research team on a DARPA project. After that I got a full time gig on May 19th of that year and I still work for the same research team (different from the $7 team) even though we have changed universities.
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wolfbinary wrote:
Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job?
The kind of crap I wrote, I'm glad they did not charge me anything. :)
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I'm sure I can relate to that. :-O ;)
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1976. At $5 an hour, I suppose it wasn't really fair, but it was only one task of many I did as a lab tech for a university, and lab techs are typically paid very poorly. Writing an OS and Assembler for the Altair 8800, after rebuilding it from a botched job by my predecessor, then designing and building interfaces to an ASR33 Teletype terminal and a Varian minicomputer that was, itself, emulating an IBM 1103 was interesting and fun, but not very profitable... :-D
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Hummm...I worked part time for the CalPoly Engineering Dept from 1970 to 1975 as a lab tech and was paid whatever the minimum wage was at the time - I thought it was more than $5 / hour though - so long ago and I seem to have picked up a few parity errors in my memory recall :sigh:
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
1998, some awkward looking web site, for a foundation that got their thinking spread all over the place, and the lead person having his skewed design. Not bad $1500 for about 3 month of part time job. :^) Did I mention they throw the whole website in less than 6 months. What a waste of time and money :doh:
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
2009, worked on a program to strip out the headers of a TS video stream and forward the payload to a video encoder and was paid $10/hour. Which for being straight out of high school pretty decent, especially when I was only supposed to be an intern. :laugh:
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I was more than fairly recompensed. It was about 1983/85 and COBOL.
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It is impossible to be fairly compensated for having to write COBOL.
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
1988, writing games for the Apple II using 6502 assembly and was royally shafted, especially considering how much money the company made for our work. (Turns out they originally paid us overtime--we were working 60-80 hours a week--then claimed they shouldn't have since we were "contractors." They were wrong [we weren't contractors by IRS definition], but I needed the work and lived with it.) (I don't count prototyping a database in 1987 using Clipper since my official title at the time was "office manager" or some such nonsense. I also don't count a prototype done in Apple Basic in 1982 for church accounting software that never went anywhere since I was doing it my spare time.)
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It is impossible to be fairly compensated for having to write COBOL.
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Heck yeah. It was 1979, the language was Cobol on an NCR minicomputer, and I thought, "All this, and every two weeks they hand me money. Life is good."
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Hummm...I worked part time for the CalPoly Engineering Dept from 1970 to 1975 as a lab tech and was paid whatever the minimum wage was at the time - I thought it was more than $5 / hour though - so long ago and I seem to have picked up a few parity errors in my memory recall :sigh:
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When I worked briefly for the Cal Poly Engineering department, I think the wage was about $6 an hour - well above minimum wage for the time. That would have been about 1975 - 1976. But they only let me work around 10 hours a week or so, and that $5 an hour for forty hours looked awfully attractive. Of course, it was a little easier and cheaper to drive to LA from Pomona then... ;)
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Roger Wright wrote:
At $5 an hour, I suppose it wasn't really fair, but it was only one task of many I did as a lab tech for a university, and lab techs are typically paid very poorly. Writing an OS and Assembler for the Altair 8800, after rebuilding it from a botched job by my predecessor, then designing and building interfaces to an ASR33 Teletype terminal and a Varian minicomputer that was, itself, emulating an IBM 1103 was interesting and fun, but not very profitable...
That sounds like some serious fun!! :-D
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
The year was 1973 and I thought the compensation was fair. I learned IBM assembler on that job which provided steady jobs for the following 18 years before I branched out into the growing PC market.
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
wolfbinary wrote:
fairly compensated
How I view that compared to others will probably be different, but for me I'd say sure. I had just "retired" from the military (US Navy) after 22years, where we never made much money anyway (I don't think I got even close to $30K a year), and I realized that I was lacking "true" programming experience. So one of the first companies I interviewed with wanted to bring me on at $20K a year, reasoning that since I was already drawing retirement pay and they were a "small" company, it was the best they could do and was a "great" opportunity. Luckily, I declined the generous offer and kept looking. Found a job a week or so later making $47K salary, and that was 12 years ago.