Why do some careers pay significantly higher salaries than other careers? And what do top paid professionals including doctors, lawyers and computer programmers have in common that makes them earn significantly higher income than other lower-paid professionsals?
The one thing that top paying careers have in common, are skills that fetch top dollars in the marketplace. Simply stated, how much you earn after a hard day’s work is determined by the market value of your career.
What do you know about low paid jobs, Kingsley? You are a contract programmer with a decade of skills and experience aren’t you?
What do I know about low paid jobs you ask? I will tell you what I do know. Before I became a contract programmer in Tulsa, I was working an $8/hr. sales job which I hated ever minute of. I had to clock-in to begin work and then clock-out at the end of my 8-hour shift. I had to clock-in and clock-out to go to the restroom. I was on the phone fielding calls every minute of the day. I couldn’t play my iPOd or talk to my next cube neighbor because there was literally no break in between the phone calls. How I hated those days. Finally I couldn’t take it and I quit. And within 6 months I was making $76,000/yr. as a contract programmer in the same city. So, don’t ask me what I know about low paid jobs. I have been there, done that and bagged a t-shirt okay!
You now have good evidence that your income is set by your choice of career don’t you?
You are not really a stranger to this fact of life are you? That your ability to comfortably pay your bills, take vacations, pay your home mortgage, buy new cars, provide medical benefits and take care of your family is affected by the career you choose!
We both know that in all careers, there are top performers who earn significantly more than most of their colleagues and under performers who earn significantly less than most of their careers. I am not referring to these over or under performers, but to the Jane Doe who earns an average salary.
You can make an informed guess on what people earn from their line of work can’t you? So, imagine for a moment how much your neighbor earns for a living working as:
a school teacher in South Carolina
a waiter in Bronx, New York
an investment banker in Saint Louis, Missouri
a high school graduate in Madison, Wisconsin
What does this tell you? It is illogical, unreasonable and statistically weird to expect a high income from a career that typically pays low wages. It is like expecting apples to grow on orange trees. It rarely happens because if you really want to eat apples, you have to look on apple trees and if you want oranges you have to pick orange trees.
So to earn a higher pay, escape the minimum wage trap or make more money than you are making now, you need to begin a high paying career right about now.
But you say that changing to a high paying career is not easy because:
Most top paying careers have stringent, required educational exams. There are requirements for examinations, certifications, and years of schooling in medicine and law
Preparing for top paying careers requires many years of classroom education. Years that may not be spent earning any additional income
Going to school to learn a top paying career can be expensive. Tuition costs can run into six figures and may require taking on hard to pay back debt
Not all students who can afford high tuition costs for top paying careers can be admitted. Because of the pre-defined, limited number of credentialed and certified academic institutions, competition is usually very high among prospective students and only a minority of applicants can be accepted
- And if you weren’t near or at the top of your class in high school, your chances of being accepted into a top paying course in college or university is limited by stiff competition your fellow high school students with better academic scores than you.
Enter computer programmer careers. The one hidden top paying career that still provides a steady dependable source of job wealth, high income and top pay. A hidden career thanks to the common myths lies and mis-conceptions spread about the career.
THE TRUTH ABOUT COMPUTER PROGRAMMER CAREERS
There are no stringent, required or mandatory exams that must be passed to practice computer programming. You don’t need to be registered, certified or degreed to begin a programmer career.
You don’t need formal classroom education to begin programming. You don’t have to spend years learning programming without earning an income and you can begin programming today and start earning an income in as little as 3 to 8 months depends on your motivation.
You don’t have to pay for any expensive sort of education before you can begin programming. Of course you have to invest in resources for learning programming, but at a small fraction of what you will have to spend to learn other top paying careers.
You are not disqualified from beginning programming because of your past or present academic performance, and I mean absolutely not. Even if you only have a high school diploma or a non-technical college degree, you can begin programming, if you simply want to.
And you can learn programming from any location, at your own pace and convenient time. There are no rules for learning, no set exams to take and additional classroom education is completely optional. You can begin your computer programmer career at home, in your spare time by just studying 1 to 2 hours a day or a few hours per week
Now, you understand that your choice of career locks-in how much you earn. And you understand that most top paying careers have difficult or hard entry requirements, certifications and courses except computer programming. Finally, you realize that there are no rules on how to begin programming because being a programmer is simply about learning how to write good, quality software code.
Dear friend, away with the lies, mis-conceptions and myths that’ve stopped you from beginning your programmer career and start your exciting new journey to learn programming with me. A decade ago, I changed careers to computer programming and today I am hear to help you do the same. Don’t hesitate, just act and take me up on the offer today.
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You won’t have believed me if I told you.
But now You, Oh Yes You, are beginning to realize it.
Your resume is the reason why you can’t get a programming interview … despite your best efforts.
And when you talk to recruiters, Oh My, Do They Give You A Run Around!
Someone should have been kind enough to tell you that your resume is killing your career!
You send your resume to soooo many employers and then sit back for phone calls that never happen.
No one wants to hire you! Even though your resume literally screams Hire Me!
What is happening to me you say.
Am I over qualified, under qualified, too old, too young, too Christian, too Moslem, under educated or over educated you ask?
“Please tell me what is wrong with my career and I will fix it”, you cry, staring at your phone.
And then it happens. Your phone rings! And with a surge of 100 percent pure adrenaline you grab it and yell out your full name before the caller has a chance to say “hello my name is Scott and ...”
Surprise! The “Private Number” on your Caller ID is from a debt collector calling to remind you of a 60 days past due bill.
You look up. There, suspended in mid-air, are crystal clear pictures of bankruptcy, repossession and eviction!
Will I ever get a programming job, is my career over, am I the next homeless person you wonder?
As the walls begin to cave-in on you, the only thing louder than your heart beat is your own labored breathing and one very small, very quiet voice that says “now begin to face the truth that your resume is the reason why you can’t get a job”
For example:
You have several years of experience from careers that have nothing to do with computer programming listed on your resume! How does that help your case with an employer?
You have included your entire college or academic results (transcript) on your resume! Why?
You say you love programming and all you want is an entry-level programmer job. Yet your resume is that of a desperate job seeker and not that of a lover of programming.
And you don’t have one lousy programming job where you worked for at least 6 months. How can you be a programmer?
You think that by using the tag “entry level programmer” in your resume, you will become instantly employable! Little do you know what employers are really thinking – “Show Me Your Programming Skills First And Then I Will Show You The Money”!
To cap it! Your resume says you have been searching for work for a really long time - meaning nobody wants to hire you.
Let’s stop this madness right now.
Get with me right now so I can help you straighten out your resume quickly, get it into the hands of hiring managers today, get hired easily and get paid more!
By now you know what you must. Straighten out your resume quickly and get a job fast!
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Beginning computer programming can be difficult. Even after being hired beginner computer programmers may get the short end of the stick in matters ranging from compensation, training, and exposure to high profile projects and clients, peer respect, choice of technology, pecking order, holiday time and benefits.
There are several reasons why beginner programmers find it hard to get programming jobs or harder to find good career positions even after they are hired. Here are a few:
Lack of experience: Yes, lack of strong industry experience will keep aspiring beginner programmers looking for work longer than they should. And even after they are hired they may be relegated to positions with no real prospects for career advancement.
Lack of negotiation skills: Negotiation skills which are usually not taught at programming classes are critical to beginning computer programming. Because beginner programmers lack the skills to negotiate a better pay, more challenging programming projects and choice of technology their career suffers as they wait for something good to happen for them. However the relationship between you as a beginner programmer and your employer is that of an adult-to-adult relationship. Meaning that your employer expects you to look after your own interests.
Weak Job Search Skills: Beginning computer programming jobs are often chosen out of fear, lack of self-confidence and lack of market insight. What is a beginner programmer to do? The first offer on the table is grabbed by the desperate, tired and stressed-out beginner programmer who‘s intimidated and overwhelmed by their job search. As a result, beginner programmers may be stuck with under-paying, unfavorable jobs for several years until their career becomes un-livable.
Low self confidence: We have all been there. You are hired and given the tag junior level or entry level programmer. This tag becomes how your fellow programmers see you and therefore how you see yourself. Even though you may be capable of performing at the same level as other mid-level or senior level programmers in your firm. If you believe the tag beginner, entry level, junior or novice programmer, you give someone else the power to tell you what you can and cannot do. And you lose that fundamental ability of a human, "the ability to self-determine one’s own destiny".
Do you see what is going on here? Beginning computer programming can also be challenging because beginner programmers often lack the ability to pain a better picture of their abilities through their resumes, present themselves confidently at technical interviews and negotiate better salaries that are not tied to arbitrary beginner / entry level / junior programmer CAREER TAGS.
While beginning computer programming, I discovered how I could do the same jobs usually referred to senior developers. So, I peeled off the beginning computer programming tags on my career and within 6 months my salary multiplied from $28,000/yr. to $75,000/yr. which is really not bad for starters.
And I amazed when I gete emails from programmers who are paralyzed by their beginning computer programming tag. Here is a recent e-mail. Read it below and see what I mean.
Hi there,
upon reading your article about becoming a programmer I have decided to contact you.
I am working for a web-development company as a trainee.
I have worked for this company for two months now and what was once a passion of mine (web development) has now become my worst nightmare.
Although I am supposed to be a trainee i have received no training what so ever and i am expected to know everything about every language.
When i run into almost imminent problems all the director can do is send me abusive emails where swearing and personal insults are common place.
I am desperate to become a good web-developer and would do anything to become as proficient as my colleagues but this just seems like it will never be the case.
I often study outside work but when i go into the office something else is required of me (just seems like a never ending cycle of doom and gloom).
My probation is up and i will find out if i will be kept on in my role as a "trainee developer".
This does not add to my motivation neither does my directors abusive emails.
My advice to beginner computer programmers who find their careers in a rut like this is:
Focus on the value you offer. Learn how to value your work by your raw ability to perform on the job and get the work done, nothing else. Think meritocracy and give no place to the self-defeating tags of beginner, entry-level or junior that only seek to restrain your performance.
Improve your skills. You are a computer programmer. What you offer is your programming skills, experience and knowledge. If anyone takes away your ability to learn and improve your programming skills, your career is as good as dead. So, find creative ways to develop your skills fast outside of your office or your career will be over before it even begins.
Think like a pro. Like a professional developer, ensure your resume and technical job interviewing skills stand out.
Negotiate what you want. Begin to form a healthy self-image of yourself and then negotiate like you are serious about your career. When you get the pay you want, accept the offer and do a damn good job. And if you still can’t do a good job, better learn how to
Own your destiny. Begin to act like you are in a free market economy. If you can’t get along with your employer despite your best efforts, simply apply for a position with another employer. There are several reasons why you may not get along with an employer. Sometimes, it’s your fault and sometimes it is not. Whatever the reason, don’t give in to fear and stay with a job you hate. Get out, get moving and get hired fast!
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