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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:12 pm
by Burrito
d11wtq wrote:
£300 rent
£100 council tax
£50 car insurance
£200 parents (loan still paying)
£200 to 3 other creditors
Then I spend about £100/month on petrol too.... all adds up really.
Imagine adding two kids to that equation, and you have the life of a burrito.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:22 pm
by Nathaniel
Oh well, crap, dw11, I didn't mean to mess up your poll, but I don't program full-time and voted anyway. So substract one from "Less than 10,000."
Sorry, running on a six-hour night for the second day in a row...
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:31 pm
by John Cartwright
Nathaniel wrote:Oh well, crap, dw11, I didn't mean to mess up your poll, but I don't program full-time and voted anyway. So substract one from "Less than 10,000."
Sorry, running on a six-hour night for the second day in a row...
d11wtq wrote:I only want people to answer this if they are programming PHP either full-time or freelance.

Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:50 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Burrito wrote:d11wtq wrote:
£300 rent
£100 council tax
£50 car insurance
£200 parents (loan still paying)
£200 to 3 other creditors
Then I spend about £100/month on petrol too.... all adds up really.
Imagine adding two kids to that equation, and you have the life of a burrito.
Add three more kids to burrito's two, and the fact that I live in East Bay Area (you know, $1800 a month rents?), and you got a burrito eatin' everah (but only once a month 'cuz I can't afford more than that).
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:10 pm
by Nathaniel
Jcart wrote:d11wtq wrote:I only want people to answer this if they are programming PHP either full-time or freelance.

Yup, but I took that to mean that I should freelance full-time. Which I don't.
What did you mean, d11wtq?
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:16 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Nathaniel wrote:Jcart wrote:d11wtq wrote:I only want people to answer this if they are programming PHP either full-time or freelance.

Yup, but I took that to mean that I should freelance full-time. Which I don't.
What did you mean, d11wtq?
I basically meant of programming PHP is your primary source of income. You could live on freelancing 3 days a week if you got enough money from it I guess..... I wouldn't though, not worth the hassle IMO.
I'm quite surprised how low the stats are.... I guess we get paid a little more in the UK because a good chunk comes back off as tax and the cost of living is higher anyway.
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:42 pm
by NiGHTFiRE
d11wtq: Where do you find your custommers?
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:46 pm
by Weirdan
I'm quite surprised how low the stats are....
Did you forget we have people from all around the globe here? For example, to have the salary ~1000USD/month in Ukraine is... well above average, yet any UK coder would laugh out loud, should someone offer him to work for 12K/year.
And I mean professional full-time job, not something a student does between lecture hours and parties.
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:58 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Weirdan wrote:
I'm quite surprised how low the stats are....
Did you forget we have people from all around the globe here? For example, to have the salary ~1000USD/month in Ukraine is... well above average, yet any UK coder would laugh out loud, should someone offer him to work for 12K/year.
And I mean professional full-time job, not something a student does between lecture hours and parties.
Yeah you're right, it's all relative
~NiGHTFiRE I don't find customers... I'm actually employed by the City Council here in Manchester. I do get approached a lot through this board and also via my CV online
http://chriscorbyn.co.uk/ although I'm still not sure what Google keywords they are using to stumble upon that because it's not even linked to anywhere really.
You should look in the job hunt forum here every so often if you're looking for work. Rent-a-Coder and those freelance sites are a waste of time too because they just end up seeling work to developers for stupidly low amounts and it's always the same old regulars who pick up work.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:23 am
by SpiderMonkey
any UK coder would laugh out loud, should someone offer him to work for 12K/year
Thats what I work for, roughly. It is only a temporary job whilst I try to find a better one cockle picking.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:26 am
by Weirdan
Thats what I work for, roughly
USD or GBP? =)
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:36 am
by SpiderMonkey
Weirdan wrote:Thats what I work for, roughly
USD or GBP? =)
GBP, I wouldn't be able to live on 12k USD
Still, I can't help feeling theres some kid in China sewing Nikes making more than me.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:07 am
by Weirdan
and I was talking about USD:
For example, to have the salary ~1000USD/month in Ukraine is...
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:24 pm
by panic!
£23,000 ($40,000~) not bad for 20 years old, authough probably not as much as most of the full-time people on here.
d11wtq, i can't believe you pay that much rent! that's so good! I pay £340 for a really bad bedsit!