Do P99 Devs, GMs and Guides Have Jobs?

[Rogean]

Originally Posted by odiecat99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

holy shit and Im the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, where's the proof?

You're calling BS on a $150/hr bill-out? You obviously haven't spent any time in the corporate world.

I'm a network engineer, my time is either billed out somewhere between $150/hr to $250/hr, or more commonly in project labor 'blocks', which range anywhere from $1k to $20k, and can take anywhere from a couple of hours to several days. These labor blocks are built into big state contract bids for government education (typically new building contructions since state of Massachusetts refunds like 70% to the municipality). That $20k block gets built into a contract worth $500k-$1 mil and I spend 2 days, give or take, on my part.

(20,000 / (2*8)) = $1,250/hr

I basically have no job description. I'm expected to complete a given project regardless of the vendors involved, whether I've worked with them or not. I cover (not limited to): Firewalls (Cisco, Sonicwall), Switches (Cisco, Procurve, Extreme, Brocade, 3Com, etc), Servers/SAN (HP, Dell, EMC), and pretty much anything Software related (Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, VMWare, Antivirus Products, Backup Products, etc). That really is only a small list of the things I could be dealing with.