[Metalab] Vienna IT field salaries (Was: Metalab General Discussion List <metalab at lists.metalab.at>)

[Sergey V. Mikhanov]

>> Displaimer: I'm an immigrant myself, came from Moscow four years ago,
>> so expect a bit of rant below.
>
> You are already assimilated: Complaining on a high level is so austrian ;-)

I can go as low level as... Wait, what?

> My advise, and the way I'm living, go for a four-day-week or even tree days,
> be happy with little less money (2000-2400 should still be doable for us)
> and enjoy your life or work one something awesome funny in your spare time.
> That little extra (netto) money isn't worth a 40h week.

Glad you have mentioned that. Look how gently you have been pushed one
step closer to the Karlsplatz passage folks. "Tomas, there's no need
to work hard, you won't get any reward anyway". That's sooooo good for
you in particular and local economy in general, you know.

> It reminds me of a very similar discussion on the London's Ruby User Group list
> and James pretty much got it right:
> http://lists.lrug.org/htdig.cgi/chat-lrug.org/2008-March/002092.html

It's great to have the choice whether you want to earn more or not.
This choice exists in London: you may be Ruby-hip with 35K and
Java-enterprisy-uncool with 70K. You may even be
sold-my-sold-to-top-tier-hedge-fund with 90K. In Vienna a combination
of tax law and job market effectively made this choice for you.

Basically what you say only confirms my point: the salaries ARE low
and employed professional cannot do anything about it.

Cheers,
Sergey