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Aspen/Pitkin County Radio Tech Job
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n0nhp
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I used to have the assistant's job there.
They pay well, They have to. You can't afford to live up valley (in Aspen) and living down valley involves an hour commute one way on a good day. I used to leave for work about 0430 just to miss what traffic I could.
You are on call by pager 24/7.
Lots of nice and fancy equipment. When I was there they didn't scrimp on needed equipment or sites.
Bruce
They pay well, They have to. You can't afford to live up valley (in Aspen) and living down valley involves an hour commute one way on a good day. I used to leave for work about 0430 just to miss what traffic I could.
You are on call by pager 24/7.
Lots of nice and fancy equipment. When I was there they didn't scrimp on needed equipment or sites.
Bruce
Denverpilot
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You can just barely hire a Senior (as in... knows what they're doing) IT person in Denver right now for the top of their hourly range. Just for comparison.
With the cost of living difference, that's not great. IT drove off people in droves during the downturn and now there is a lack of motivated highly technically-qualified folks. Or too many highly-specialized folks used to there being whole departments to handle everything not directly tied to their expertise.
(Been sitting through DBA interviews for a month now, none have ever racked a server at a datacenter or loaded an OS from the ground up. There was always someone else to do that for them.)
They'll still get someone at that price, though... lots of folks want to get away from the big city and will take the effective pay cut to do it.
With the cost of living difference, that's not great. IT drove off people in droves during the downturn and now there is a lack of motivated highly technically-qualified folks. Or too many highly-specialized folks used to there being whole departments to handle everything not directly tied to their expertise.
(Been sitting through DBA interviews for a month now, none have ever racked a server at a datacenter or loaded an OS from the ground up. There was always someone else to do that for them.)
They'll still get someone at that price, though... lots of folks want to get away from the big city and will take the effective pay cut to do it.
superfreak
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Unless you lived in employee housing and were single, it is not enough to survive there.
A family of four probably would need to spend $2000 or more a month in rent to live in Glenwood. On the otherhand, I think they do let you take the work truck home..
They have been churing through techs every year or two....
A family of four probably would need to spend $2000 or more a month in rent to live in Glenwood. On the otherhand, I think they do let you take the work truck home..
They have been churing through techs every year or two....
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