Work and Talk

A State Job Is Perfect for Mid-Age IT Professionals

13 June 2007

I have dozen of friends who work as public employees on state IT jobs, — programmers, DBA, system admin, analyst, etc. They tell me the same thing: State jobs are easy, light work load, flexible schedule, and most important, their jobs are protected by the union, — the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) […]

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What Else Are My Coworkers Doing at Work?

10 April 2007

What do my coworkers do at work? Work, of course. What else? browsing at break, chatting, gossiping, a cup of java, just some normal things. But that’s not all.
When I was working on a consulting assignment on site with a insurance company, I discovered that many of IT workers are silently […]

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Are State IT Jobs Secure?

18 August 2006

State government IT jobs pay lower than private sectors. Using the state of California as example, in Sacramento, the state capital, the top limit salary is about $76,000 per year for senior IT workers, — Senior Information Systems Analysts (DBAs, system administrators, software architects, etc) and Senior Programmer Analysts. In the same city […]

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