Comments on: Fact or Fiction? – "Java Skills Gap" http://blog.kischuk.com/2004/03/22/fact-or-fiction-java-skills-gap/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 19 May 2010 15:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://blog.kischuk.com/2004/03/22/fact-or-fiction-java-skills-gap/#comment-209 Anonymous Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:54:36 +0000 http://rkischuk.wordpress.com/2004/03/22/fact-or-fiction-java-skills-gap/#comment-209 "It makes you wonder how much of this so-called "underemployment" is due to people living in denial of their actual market value." oh, yeah. although he's not a developer, I know one guy in advertising who used to earn a bomb as a creative director type in an S.E. Asian country during the boom. Now back home and solidly unemployed, he won't apply for jobs under e.g. 200K salary or expensive, fat, senior job title. he's got no idea about his real worth in a bear market, which is, a job like that goes only to some guy with track record 5yrs+ in a job like that. not a piddling internet startup that went broke in H.K. “It makes you wonder how much of this so-called “underemployment” is due to people living in denial of their actual market value.”

oh, yeah. although he’s not a developer, I know one guy in advertising who used to earn a bomb as a creative director type in an S.E. Asian country during the boom. Now back home and solidly unemployed, he won’t apply for jobs under e.g. 200K salary or expensive, fat, senior job title. he’s got no idea about his real worth in a bear market, which is, a job like that goes only to some guy with track record 5yrs+ in a job like that. not a piddling internet startup that went broke in H.K.

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