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From: "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net>
To: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Marco Molteni" <molter@logic.it>
Subject: Re: what is a fair wage for a system administrator?
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 11:00:39 -0400
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This is a touchy situation for me.  I also serve as a sysadmin on a part
time basis, and somehow got myself stuck with a very inadequate salary.

Basically, my best suggestion to you, is to evaluate what your time and
skills are worth and ask for a salary that adequately compensates you.  For
some, $10/hour would be fine.  Others may feel that they want as much as
$40/hour or more.

Good luck figuring it out,

Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net>
Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services
http://www.i-Plus.net


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From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it>
To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Wednesday, July 09, 1997 9:46 AM
Subject: what is a fair wage for a system administrator?

>Howdy all!
>
>My ISP, which is running 2 NT boxes (Unix knowledge == 0), asked me to
>install and run a FreeBSD box, to be used as a "multi-host web server"
>(is it english? ;-)
>I'll be the system administrator, not the author of the web pages.
>
>I think I have an adeguate knowledge regarding Unix and tcp/ip
>networking to do such a job, altought I have been connected to the
>internet only via ppp (I mean I have never run a box connected 24h a
day).
>
>My questions are:
>1. since I've already a part-time work and I'm studying, I don't want to
>assign many hours for this new work. Are ten hours/month enough to cater
>to such a web server? (please try to limit flames ;-)
>
>2. any suggestion/examples for a fair wage?
>
>
>Marco Molteni
>Computer Science student at the Universita' di Milano, Italy.
>"The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things".
>
>