Re: DBA to Solve your database headaches

"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message news:1e8276d6.0110310632.70786e13_at_posting.google.com...
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam (Nuno Souto) wrote in message
news:<3bdedc37.5807878_at_news>...
> > Hah! You'd be lucky to get anywhere near that over here. Average
> > salary for a DBA permie here is $70K (pacific peso currency), which
> > translates to around 25K in Pounds or roughly 35K US$. The good ones
> > get around $100-110K, which again is well below those figures.
>
> I do not want to look stupid, however what the hell is "pacific peso
> currency" ?
> I thought, it's Australia we're talking about. There should be
> Australian dollars as currency. Can you shed a light on me ?
>

I think Nuno is hinting at the fact that the currency (the Aussie Dollar) has shed about half its value in a little over 5 years. The kind of thing one normally associates with (and I hope I'm not offending anyone here!) the various states of Latin America.

Never use the expression myself -but then I say 'rellies' and Nuno says that's a no-no (half-rhyme intended). And I've never even heard of Harbord!

Regards
HJR
> > Contracting is dead, due to huge recession. It used to pay up to
> > $100-120 /hour for experienced people, which again is well below those
> > figures.
> >
> > No surprises why we can't find a single good DBA around: they all
> > moved overseas. It's gonna be a rude awakening here when business
> > realises there simply ain't enough experienced people around. They'll
> > have to seriously jack up prices to even convince local ones to move,
> > let alone entice any new people to come over...
>
> Yes, world economies are somehow shitty. Maybe you wiil have some DBAs
> available soon, because moving oversees is maybe not a best way
> anymore, because of recesion in U.S. We shall see if black numbers
> will come back soon.
>
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> Dusan Bolek, Ing.
> Oracle team leader
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Received on Wed Oct 31 2001 - 14:20:26 CST