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I'm not a car mechanic, but I play one on TV... :-)
Actually...lately I work for a Large Auto Manufacturer, and work w/ dealers
and their service departments all over the country. The labor rates for
mechanics are $40-$80 an hour. I can't say what the guy actually fixing your
car makes, and I can't say what the shop collects of that rate, but I can say
that the auto mechanic is making a bit better than minimum wage. Auto
mechanics are a high skill job nowadays. I think that us IT types need to
realize that critical mass will build again, and we'll be able to charge a
reasonable rate for our services, too.
Russell
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 18:09 pm, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> I make the analogy of the car mechanic. At one time, automobiles were a
> luxury and repairs became burdens of only the rich.
>
> As with IT, during the late nineties, networks were a luxury to compete
> with your cash/stock-rich counterparts. After the April 2000 correction to
> the dot-coms and the NASDAQ, the world sought to have a desktop in every
> second-world home and up. Thereof, we were to become the automobile
> mechanic. Sure, we're good at what we do, but the market has adjusted the
> pay scale to the mass demand of IT; hence, the fall of salaries to
> represent that measure.
>
> /mario
>
> On Wednesday 25 June 2003 16:45, you wrote:
> > Thomas A. Ufer wrote:
> > |Unfortunately, this is very true.
> >
> > Unfortunately because of the glut in IT over the past half-decade,
> > system admins are now literally "a dime a dozen."
> >
> > That doesn't include the major influx of IT folks into the job market
> > due to layoffs.
> >
> > SWB
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