jacoby's Journal: Woe Being Me

I had a meeting today.

My boss' boss got fired.

It's really a reorg thing. Instead of a director of IS, we'll have a CIO, which means we'll have a voice in upper management. Or, alternately, our uberboss will, and we'll just be shmucks.

My wife's been pushing me to apply for a DB guy job at CSPAN. I'll work on my resume this evening.

memories of CSPAN

[Leapfrog]

My interview at CSPAN was brief, and concluded with me saying something to the effect of, "I understand that you want someone with those qualifications, but I really can't see how you expect to find someone with those qualifications without offering at least three times that salary. If you're willing to work with me, I'll learn to do what you want and we'll call it even."
At that point, the interview was over. They did not call me back.
Fortunately, soon after that I started with CERIAS.

Re:memories of CSPAN

[jacoby]

That's about what I expect. This is real work and not student work, but I do expect the same metric going on. Every sign I know has me earning a good $5000 more a year than, say, Shuey, which I personally cannot justify, but that's the difference between private sector and University, and C-Span counts as University in this case.