Thursday 13 November 2008
The economy is coming to an end!! And I say bring it on
This is a bit of a socialist rant, verging on the marxist ideal so some people may want to ignore it :)
I am in an industry that seems to be inappropriately paid for what it does.
This may sound like a ridiculous statement but I am a highly experienced and educated enterprise software developer, this is a highly skilled industry, but the point I'd like to make is.... Do I work any harder than a construction worker or a sales person I would have to say probably not. Some people try very hard to be the best that they can possibly be at their jobs, I am one of them, I am pleased by the elegance of a solution, the fact that it can quickly and easily be enhanced this proves to me that my intellect, imagination for change and ability is sufficient for the task but does it mean that its worth more than the work of moving 10,000 bricks up a ladder on a building project. It may be more mentally demanding but not everyone was created equally, there are some people for which understanding a triple integration equation is as simple as turning on a light.
What I would like to see happen is that everyone is paid for the amount of effort they exert. Sadly this, I can see is an impossibility, who would determine how much effort someone was making.
I have been told that bankers are clever people, some of them maybe, some of them may simply have the job as that is what daddy got for them. The thing is as banking jobs fall by the way side, intelligent people will find other things to do.
Intelligent people are generally very lazy, lazy intelligent people come up with ideas that make their work easier. This sort of laziness should be applauded it does actually advance us as a human race. When an intelligent person is doing something that comes easy to them and they are getting vastly overpaid for it they will keep doing it, and this could stagnate innovation, making people suddenly readdress their current situation is probably the best shake-up for the good of mankind at the moment.
It is not going to be easy, but then again, when has anything "easy" really been worth it.
So come on you are your own person, take stock, chin up and explore yourself as a person.
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One thing I should have stated is that there are also some incredibly lazy stupid people, who hopefully will fall by the wayside. The people who coast along doing very little, privileged
ReplyDeleteto a great position not through ability but due to birth right or social standing, or being able to suck a golf ball up a hose pipe. Companies now can and should be picky about the type of person they choose to fill a role and go by ability and productivity rather than a reputation from unrealistic sources.
The reason us IT folks get paid so much more than others is simple supply and demand economics.
ReplyDeleteThere are far more people that can hump bricks up ladders (including some IT folk, especially with some practice!) than there are that can write good code. Or even support complex systems.
Rates have come down somewhat but again that's simply because the demand has dropped. But it's still there. And still more lucrative than the bricks ;)
No recession will see an end to the disparity in money paid relative to effort since the effort isn't what's driving the disparity in the first place.
In this particular case I find it hard to see how it could ever change.
Some people "get it" ("get IT"?) but others don't.
Lucky us!