[OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 16:06, Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 03:45 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> I can vouch for this. I am not a CS major and I consider myself a Linux
> amateur, but I have worked supporting various Linux servers for locals. Of
> course, I was making nowhere near the level of income that Shahar discusses
> on his blog, experience wins hands-down in that department.
>
> Here's an important point. It is okay to claim that I'm charging too much,
> or that my salary expectations are too high. There is no law that says that
> software guys are entitled to high salary ranges.
>

I did not argue that you charge too much! Quite the opposite, I stated
that I may have been cheaper _per_hour_ but that came at the price of
experience and that experience is preferable. I am sorry if it did not
read so clearly.


> Except
>
> I had no problem at all in getting similar salary ranges as an employee.
> This means that, as far as market worth is concerned, I was not
> overcharging. I was asking for a reasonable (in its supply and demand
> meaning) compensation for my expertise and know-how.
>
> Now, obviously, the market is not willing to pay those numbers to
> consultants, which means that I moved on to being an employee. What I'm
> wondering, however, is whether this is truly because people of my experience
> level (in terms of salary as employee) are of not enough demand, or whether
> (as I've been implying) there is some form of market failure at play here.
>

The market failure is called a race to the bottom. It is a well-known
phenomenon.

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Dotan Cohen

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