| anytime you hear "shortage of candidates" you need to append "at the wage we are offering" at 1 million per year, do you think there would still be a shortage? how about 500k? Salaries are so bad in IT compared to development that I decided a couple months ago to start making the transition. I cant reasonably continue pursuing a career trajectory that i know will make me less money, and that is not valued by organizations. add to this the demands for IT jobs: certifications (costs hundreds of dollars per, need to refresh them every year or two) experience with laundry lists of technologies (i.e cisco networking experience is apparently not valid if this employer uses juniper/pfsense/etc.) probably the worst hours in the industry (yes devs get pagerduty, its not comparable) compare that to: literally no certification requirements (dont even need a high school diploma for many places) much better hours add to that substantially better pay, and its a real wonder why there is a 'shortage of candidates' |