It seems the enterprisey .NET shops interviewed already hired all the crappy .NET developers who are willing to work for that kind of money and now they would have to move to more expensive ones than the ones they had before. Their reluctance is easy to explain.
Programmers are interesting animals - the good ones work for fun. As long as their bills are getting paid and work is interesting, they stay. Give them a brain-dead job, like anything Sharepoint-related, and they leave.
Programmers are interesting animals - the good ones work for fun. As long as their bills are getting paid and work is interesting, they stay.
I disgaree. They do work on interesting stuff, but getting bills paid isn't sufficient. There's no shortage of interesting work. If you can't find an interesting job at pay you find compelling then there's a problem.
Maybe there's a problem in my situation then. I've not yet found a job that was both interesting with "compelling" pay. Good pay, often yes. "Good" meaning I could pay my bills and have a decent life. But that's not "compelling" to me.
I'm not expecting "fuck you" money, but something that pays enough to compel me to be in a car for 2-3 hours per day commuting, or something interesting enough to compel me to move states.
We probably have different numbers for "compelling" pay.
It usually takes a lot of effort, time, sweat, and luck to find a perfect fit job. It has nothing to do with intelligence, and not everyone is willing to attempt it.
Programmers are interesting animals - the good ones work for fun. As long as their bills are getting paid and work is interesting, they stay. Give them a brain-dead job, like anything Sharepoint-related, and they leave.