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Subject:RE: Re: Using M-dash and N-dash From:Mailing List <mlist -at- ca -dot- rainbow -dot- com> To:'Gene Kim-Eng' <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:33:05 -0500
I just did some quick arithmetic. I took my current salary
and factored in the difference between US and metric bucks.
I'm not making much. Certainly, less than U$85K.
But then, I did a rough cost-of-living comparison between
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Sillycon Valley, California, USA.
Also, I live what is considered a long-ish distance from
my employment, and my driving commute is 25 minutes on a
bad day... 12 minutes, on a good day, if I get all the lights.
Hmm. You're not getting paid very well, are you? <gdr&h>
/kevin (you do have the edge on climate though... when the
smoke clears, the ground stops shaking, and the
hill-sides stop sliding away with your house :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]
> I've just described the management style of just about
> every high-tech company in Silicon Valley. Well, the
> ones that are still open, anyway. Conditions are the
> same here for the engineers as well. But if anyone
> feels they can actually work under these conditions
> for around $85k/year, they might want to keep their
> eyes out for job listings with my name on them. :))
