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RE: * Oracle DBA position available in AL...

From: david wendelken <davewendelken_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:25:55 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <17085985.1107995155235.JavaMail.root@beaker.psp.pas.earthlink.net>

>It is funny that because an area has a low cost of living that they may
>offer a lower salary. In many cases the areas with low costs of living
>are areas that (a) most people would not want to live in and (b) don't
>have a lot of qualified candidates locally. It would seem this would
>demand a higher than average salary not the opposite.

You obviously don't understand the market dynamics.

What they want is someone who wants to live there, because someone who wants to live there will be happy with any vaguely decent paying job. Shucks, they'll be happy with a *job*.

That's how it really works.

Lived there, done that.

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Received on Wed Feb 09 2005 - 19:28:49 CST

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