<p dir="ltr">All good points. I should probably blame the smallness of my company aswell.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 May 2013 09:11, "Chris Angelico" <<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com">rosuav@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Fábio Santos <<a href="mailto:fabiosantosart@gmail.com">fabiosantosart@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I may rise the average pay of a Python programmer in Portugal. I have asked<br>
> for a raise back in December, and was told that it wouldn't happen before<br>
> this year. I have done well. I think I deserve better pay than a supermarket<br>
> employee now. I am sure that my efforts were appreciated and I will be<br>
> rewarded. I am being sarcastic.<br>
><br>
> The above paragraph wouldn't be true if I programmed in perl, c++ or lisp.<br>
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I dunno, it depends more on where you work than what you work with.<br>
I'm the top employee at my workplace and use C++, Pike, PHP,<br>
Javascript, and bash, plus ancillaries like SQL... and my salary is<br>
definitely on the low end. Why? Because I work for a startup. No doubt<br>
Google or IBM would pay their top people way more than I'm getting,<br>
but that's not something a little internet startup can afford. So I<br>
bide my time :) Some day we'll be massively profitable... some day.<br>
And if not, hey, I'm making enough to survive.<br>
<br>
Of course, there's the whole thing of "how easy would it be to replace<br>
you" too. If the only language you know is PHP, chances are you can be<br>
replaced by any idiot straight out of secondary skool (sorry, that's<br>
school_real_secondary now isn't it), but someone who speaks FORTRAN<br>
and knows the bank's internal systems well enough to maintain them can<br>
ask for whatever salary he likes and still be cheaper than finding a<br>
replacement. But that expert FORTRAN programmer, if he quit his job<br>
and went searching, would quite probably find himself at the lower end<br>
again if he joined a small company.<br>
<br>
ChrisA<br>
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