NYCPHP Meetup

[David Krings]

Kristina Anderson wrote:
> This goes back to my point about the status of the profession --  if 
> we're being compared to cooks and service technicians, you know times 
> are going to be rough for us.  I'd rather be compared to a lawyer...and 
> make closer to what they make...what we do is no less complex.

Then you do not know what personal chefs make. Most of them have salaries that 
rival that of senior developers, if not top them. There are also various kinds 
of personal chefs. Some have one customer and are available 24x7, others have 
multiple customers and do the food shopping for them as well as prepare meals 
that can be reheated easily or it just happens that they manage to dish dinner 
at one place and then handily make it to the next one in time.
Besides that,  I know a few lawyers that make less than I do for twice the 
amount of work. In regards to service technicians or supporters in general, 
they are absolutely undervalued. Developers make software so that QA can test 
it, sales can sell it, and support can support it. the group that spends the 
most time with customers is support. Why would you want the least paid 
employees be the face of your company? And the developer is dead in the water 
without the service tech, but not the other way around. From that perspective 
developers should get paid low wages and get the dirty parking spots in the 
back of the lot. But I guess that adds to your point that being a lawyer is 
preferred, especially since in a judicial system like the american one you 
have job security like nothing else.

David