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Re: Going wildly OT (Re: This year's salary survey-same old same old.. HERE WE GO!)
Subject:Re: Going wildly OT (Re: This year's salary survey-same old same old.. HERE WE GO!) From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:32:51 -0800
Beats me. Advancement has been thrown in my path a few times through
the years, but I can't really say that I feel I've dedicated myself to pursuing it.
I'm personally quite satisfied to land somewhere in the upper half of the salary
surveys and have enough socked away to pay the bills for a year just in case.
> To be honest, I find it increasingly hard to understand why people would
> want to pursue career success to the exclusion of anything else. I mean,
> it's not as though becoming Executive Director of Search Engine
> Optimization or Chief Technical Officer is comparable to writing a novel
> or doing original research or something else that's significant. It's
> just a living, no matter what people are told.
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