From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-30T16:10:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27035] Re: Ruby job posted in NYC!

Not to spoil the fun, but $40/hour for contract work in NYC doesn't seem like much.
You certainly can't *live* there for that much   :{

Hey, Matz, you need to make Ruby more arbitrary and obtuse, so Ruby developers can get paid big bucks like, say, SAP/BAPI
programmers.



James, formerly of NYC


And yes, I was kidding about the "arbitrary and obtuse" part.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Feldt [mailto:feldt@ce.chalmers.se]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:27 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:27033] Re: Ruby job posted in NYC!
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jim Menard wrote:
>
> > I just thought I'd share this with the group: the first job posting I've
> > seen that mentions Ruby.
> >
> >     http://www.postget.com/get/ad.php?id=591
> >
> > The description starts:
> >
> >     "Client is a small advertising agency in Manhattan.
> >
> >     "Job consists of production work on heavily dHTML website. In order to
> >     minimize production pain, html pages are generated using Ruby (a
> >     wonderful language)."
> >
> > Yay, Ruby!
> >
> Way cool!
>
> I'm hoping that the market for SE's knowing Ruby will
> increase dramtically til next spring when I'll leave the university... ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> /RobertF
>
>