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Going wildly OT (Re: This year's salary survey-same old same old.. HERE WE GO!)
Subject:Going wildly OT (Re: This year's salary survey-same old same old.. HERE WE GO!) From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:38:47 -0800
To put it bluntly, yes. Unless you're the kind of performer who can
consistently reach dazzling heights of success that cause you to be
regarded as a legend in your own time professionally, inevitably you
will reach a point where there is nowhere left to go but greener
pastures where your knowledge and experience will be seen as
fresh capabilities, and the chances are your replacement will be
someone the company sees in the same light.
As for the last point, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but
all that stuff you were fed in the 70's and 80's about "balancing"
work and family and "having it all" was BS. If you want a career
that reaches the top levels of rank and compensation, it has to be
the primary focus of your time and attention, and unless you are
the superstar I mentioned above, to get there you have to do what
men have traditionally done: either find a mate who is willing to be
the primary caregiver at home while you go out to slay dragons, or
forego the family. Because there will always be someone else who
has done one of those things breathing down your neck or so far
ahead of you that you can't afford to stop if you ever hope to catch
up.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Wright, Lynne" <lwright -at- positron911 -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:09 PM
Subject: This year's salary survey-same old same old.. HERE WE GO!
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> This discussion is already proving that there is very little sense in the
> issues surrounding salaries...
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> It seems (in part from what Eileen and Gene have written), that:
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