i can't let this one go by

[rone]

I'm guessing you're "stealth" because you don't have the stones to face the brunt of ridicule over your outrageously low offer of $55k for someone to do *everything* for your office.  You're detailing work that will take, at a minimum, 14 hours a day.  No one person is going to be able to work that much and do a GOOD job at it.

Get a goddamned clue.  Hell, get a six-pack of clues.  Hire enough people for the job and PAY THEM WHAT THEY'RE WORTH.  You need two people: an IT guru and an office manager.  You are NOT going to get anyone worth more than shit for $55k, in either job, let alone both.  Your company is in a crucial stage, and getting an idiot or an incompetent now is going to hamstring your company.  You will regret it, guaranteed.  You should be looking at about $70k for the office manager and $85k for the IT person, MINIMUM.  Don't fucking argue with me!  Just fucking do it.

A dog walker?  You people are fucking insane.  It's not 1998 anymore.  You aren't going to get naïve chumps who will work for stock options.  Get real!

rone

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[wisn.livejournal.com]

See, the funny thing is: The more broadly versatile you are, the lower you get paid.

Anybody who can admin a server, design from scratch in Photoshop, and implement a commerce site in Rails is only worth maybe $45-55k/year here in Michigan. But somebody who's employed purely to perform a specific subset of tasks involving a proprietary plugin in Photoshop will pull down $75k/year, minimum, at one of the ad agencies in the Detroit area. And work fewer hours, too.

A prime rule of the polymath is that you'll only get paid according to your least-worthy skill, because your employer believes that anything your employer doesn't specifically understand is a simplistic, commodity role, in contrast to his own very difficult responsibilities. The job posting Rone linked to? They're only paying for the dog walker. And they're not kidding about having a dog to walk.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

The more broadly versatile you are, the lower you get paid.

I think you just put your finger on why the average starting salary for a librarian is on par with that of an experienced secretary.

Goddammit, I should've gone into an area of IT that no one except the other people who do it understands, like Mr. Darcy did.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

Anybody who can admin a server, design from scratch in Photoshop, and implement a commerce site in Rails is only worth maybe $45-55k/year here in Michigan

This is God's way of telling you to get the hell out of Michigan.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

...or getting a highly specialized job doing something fairly easy.