Sir
"Salary: Depending on experience, but in line with the world of journalism"
So, how do they compare? Not that I'm interested in the job, or even remotely qualified, just curious.
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Thursday 3rd July 2014 08:38 GMT Anonymous IV
Re: Sir
Surely journalists are showered with the 'perks' not available to IT staff?
The free lunches from fruity firms for puffing their products?
Hardware and software on test which 'doesn't need to be returned'?
The unquestioning approbation of El Reg's intelligent and perceptive readers?
(Maybe I got the first part of the last perk slightly wrong...)
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Friday 4th July 2014 08:53 GMT Psyx
Re: Sir
"Writing doesn't pay nearly as well as systems administration. From experience, however, there's less stress in the writing. "
Oh, my day-job is much more enjoyable.
It's the abject poverty for the other 15 hours a day that's stressful!
"You've got the fringe benefit of working in what is probably the most sexist industry available."
Haha.
No.
Writers don't get the pretties and champagne. Other 'artists' are far 'sexier', and marketing bods get the expense accounts AND the salary.
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Thursday 3rd July 2014 08:31 GMT Tim Worstal
Re: Sir
Journalism pays rather less than most of the computer industry. Without going into details of what El Reg pays (I only know my freelance rate which is just fine, thank you) a reporter on a local paper might be on £20k a year, last I saw at the Guardian for a section editor (Fashion, Books, that sort of thing) was about £40k and a star columnist like Polly is on £110k or so. Moonbat is on perhaps £40k.
Mail pays more than the broadsheets.
But don't forget, all except that local paper stuff is London wages. Discount by 30% or more to get out of London wages.
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Thursday 3rd July 2014 08:51 GMT gazthejourno
Re: Re: Sir
My first journalism job (in London) paid the grand sum of £18k equivalent, while my desk editor at that place was earning a whopping £22k. Starting salaries of £14k-£15k are fairly typical for trainee reporters on local papers.
Happily I can report El Reg is a darn sight more reasonable than that.
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Thursday 3rd July 2014 10:57 GMT Evil Auditor
Re El Reg is a darn sight more reasonable
That may well be true. On average though, i.e. other outlets than El Reg, journos and other media workers aren't well paid. Why are there still so many going for it? You've got the fringe benefit of working in what is probably the most sexist industry available. Where else can you go unpunished being openly misogynic apart from politics and investment banking? Again, this of course doesn't apply to El Reg.
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Thursday 3rd July 2014 08:44 GMT Nick Ryan
It should be noted that Register sub-editors are involved in managing interaction with our vast, knowledgeable but occasionally passionate readership: this is not a job for those with overly delicate sensibilities.
Oh dear. They will have been warned, but... get the asbestos underwear out anyway just in case.
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Thursday 3rd July 2014 09:28 GMT RainForestGuppy
Re: Why does it *have* to be in London
Just do a bit of editing for you:
Isn't that a little like Foxconn slave labour having to listen to valve radios, working for a pittance whilst the organisations (both fruity and non-fruity) that engage with their masters, make $,000,000,000's in profits and keep banging on about how ethical they are.
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Friday 4th July 2014 09:01 GMT Psyx
Re: Why does it *have* to be in London
"An Apple radio is a featureless block of highly polished aluminium, surmounted with several visible valves, carefully chosen for their aesthetic appearance."
They can't patent that one*, due to plenty of prior art:
http://design-milk.com/skim-milk-hybrid-tube-amplifier-by-case-real/
*They'd still try.
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Thursday 3rd July 2014 10:50 GMT Milen
"...affinity for the noble art of tabloid-style headline writing"
For a moment I thought I was reading something written by Dabbsy. This felt very suitable since this week ends a bit early at my office due to Friday being July 4.
Paris, because she also has an affinity for the noble art of tabloid-style headline writing.
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Friday 4th July 2014 03:34 GMT southpacificpom
OMG!
The work is based in our Clerkenwell offices. Be aware that you'll be selecting and maintaining your own office hardware: if you need tech support to use a computer and keep it functional this is not the job for you.
So you actually need to know something about how computers operate. How novel...
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