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.

[Scior]

I worked for a large IT company for 6 years as a Systems engineer, and the billing rate to our client (An oil company) was $130/hr for my time. Obviously I did not get paid that myself as the IT company took the bulk of it.

There is nothing uncommon about $150+ being the value of Rogean's or anyone else's time. And just because he may not get paid that much himself, does not diminish the value of his time and the value of the time he puts into the server.

Btw, Rogean, Nilbog, anyone else for that, I am currently seeking a Systems engineer/IT manager position in the Miami FL area if you guys know anybody. Just moved here a couple months ago from Southern Ohio for a change of life. Send me a PM if you do! Otherwise, thanks again for running the server!

And before anyone thinks that is dumb of me to ask. 8 years ago I met a guy in World of Warcraft. We got to know each other a bit in game from playing in the same guild. Turned out he was a VP of a security company outside of NYC and I was only about 30 minutes away from the location, he hired me to work for him!