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Do people in I.T. make too much money

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which profession gets paid too much money?

  • MD's

  • Dentists

  • Lawyers

  • I.T.

  • Engineers

  • Pharmacists

  • Law Enforcement Officers

  • CPA's

  • Auto Mechanics

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TwiceOver said:
For what I provide for my company, I am paid appropriately.

Doctors on the other hand... How can someone be completely wrong and still get paid their full billable amount? "I *think* this is what's wrong, try this out and let me know. BTW, that'll be $131 for the 17 minutes you spent with me 10 of which was wait time."

Fuck you doctors.
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The biggest problem with doctors are the offices they work for. They employ human resource directors, office nursing managers, lab technicians, check in/check out staff, IT guys, etc...all of that is overhead. The practices still make money hand over fist, but many of them pay a ton of staff to keep things running smoothly when many probably don't add much to the office experience.
 
27 years old

Qualified up to the eyeballs, and will be working on a PhD starting September in IT and teaching at Oxford university. Right now I am pulling in £56'000 (British). In September this will be going up to £59'000 British until I complete the Doctorate (which will set me back £20'000 a year give or take). After Doctorate is finished, it will go up to around £78'000 give or take.
 
JimmiG said:
Most jobs in IT don't pay as much as people think. The ones that do pay well are those that don't require any knowledge of tech, like various management and project leader positions etc.
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This. I mean, can you imagine trying to manage and coordinate the effort of a random selection of ATOTers? Blood and thunder, man.

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IT Project/Team manager. Median Salary $100k/yr.

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SysAdmin. Median Salary $61k/yr.

I have a certain amount of sympathy for the cat-herders, even if I don't particularly respect their technical expertise. (At best, it's somebody who's skills are horribly rusty and out of date.)
 
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Companies pay people what they are worth. A large majority of people think that they provide more worth than they are paid for. They don't.
 
CPA said:
CPA's are waaaaaaaaaay underpaid.
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Once I caluclated my $/hr in public I was depressed for months. Now that I do IT/ERP I'm much happier. Busy season can suck it.

You can make a lot of money by combining IT with a useful specialization/hybrid. Our project margins are really good and most people make over 6 figures in 5 years working 40 hour weeks on average. There is no salary cap if you make it to partner and go into sales. It's a lot harder to get there with pure IT and the salary cap is much lower.
 
Personally I don't consider IT to be IS or vice versa. They are related but it is 2 differing fields. I also have found programmers to be up there as the worst people to support and it generally revolves around: They can program and app in a heart beat so they think they are computer gods. They don't realize that infrastructure is just as complex as the little app they wrote up. They tend to not know what they don't know. For some reason they tend to be ultra defensive.

This isn't how it is 100% of the time and I have worked with some good programmers as well. It just seems that the bad ones are a bit more common. I would rather not waste my life explaining to a programer that insists that octet 4 in IPv4 can never be zero. (real multi-week argument here.) Guess what smarty pants: 192.168.2.0 is very much valid in 192.168.0.0/22. Since this was the head programmer, we had to build a test environment to prove it because the CNA book 1 "wasn't good enough."

So weeks of IT time wasted because a god complex in the IS house.
 
KeithTalent said:
I don't.

KT
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That's unfortunate.

Simple (sad) fact of the matter is that there are smart (and dumb) people in every level and sub-discipline of healthcare. Some are docs, and some are pharmacists. Whatchagonnado? (Besides ALWAYS getting a second opinion, anyway.)

My housemate's experience takes the cake. She passes out at work, is dizzy, can't drive. Three MDs give her three different diagnoses, and it takes two MRIs before they believe she doesn't have a brain tumor. She was on anti-seizure meds for a few months - side effects were nutters. Completely blew her annual deductible.

She meets her social worker friend for coffee, complains about her docs, and the friend says, "yeah, but it's also textbook panic attacks..." Housemate goes to a psychiatrist, gets a Lexapro Rx, and - magic - the symptoms are 95% better.
 
Red Storm said:
Lawyers without a doubt. I'd say some of them probably earn what they make, but I think overall it's the most overpaid job by far.
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You and the OP forgot bankers. They get paid millions to F up our country and steal from people.
 
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