HEY, SENIOR SYSADMIN FOLKS want a job?

[rmd]

my company, upromise.com, is looking for a senior sysadmin. we're also looking for a dba and some other jobs.

if you're interested, shoot me your resume here and i'll forward it on to the right people.

Comments

[wotw]

Suppose I make you an offer: Give me a dollar, and I'll give ten
dollars to your kids. Would this make you feel richer or poorer?

Surely it must make you feel richer. You can, if you want, let your
kids keep the ten---or you can negotiate with them and say "If I do
this I want five back". That's up to you. But your family as a
whole is richer now, not poorer. That means you need to save less.

College is an offer just like that: Give us money now, and we'll
give your kids a whole bunch more money back later. You can split
the winnings with your kids any way you choose to negotiate, but the
bottom line is that you just got richer and the pressure to save
should be reduced.

[skreeky]

Well, let's scale that. "Give me a dollar"... that scales to I make about one dollar per year to pay for everything I and my family need that year... and you don't get why people have to save up to get that lump sum dollar?

"Give me a dollar, and I'll give ten
dollars to your kids"
"I don't have a dollar."
"Oh. Well, sucks to be you."

[wotw]

If I'm going to turn your dollar into ten, you should be
borrowing the dollar, not saving it.

[drwex]

That presumes that such a level of borrowing is possible.
Remember that most of these parents are mortgaged up to their eyebrows and running high levels of credit card debt already. They simply don't have the wherewithal to borrow the quarter- to full-million it'll take to put the kid through. Sure, in an ideal world you're right, borrowing pays off in the long term. But in the real world such cash flow isn't always (or even very often) possible.