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There are computers and electronics systems in Antartica, so they obviously need technicians/engineers to maintain those, I know someone who has been there for
by dysoco 3y ago
There are computers and electronics systems in Antartica, so they obviously need technicians/engineers to maintain those, I know someone who has been there for some months doing that. It's not software development but you might apply if you know some sysadmin/technician things.
- Eddygandr 3y agoThe Cambridge based British Antarctic Survey group hire sysadmins which don’t look particular senior however the pay sucks which could be an issue for those with mortgages etc. £25k or something if I remember correctly.
- rsynnott 3y ago25k?! That’s only slightly above minimum wage, isn’t it? That has to be the worst-paid sysadmin job in the UK, surely.
- Eddygandr 3y agoMy first tech job at 19 was sysadmin in Exeter for £13k lol, as a first line technician. Pretty sure the only reason I got that job was I didn’t care about salaries so just said what I was earning at an electronics store. £25k is definitely low though.
- eternityforest 3y agoThe most I've ever made in my life was $28k. I'd probably be perfectly happy with 25k to be honest, at least until real self driving cars exist, that's pretty much the one expensive luxury thing I want besides a few vacations.
- xwdv 3y agoYour priorities are messed up. A self driving car for what, so you don’t have to drive back and forth between your $25k job?
- Eddygandr 3y ago> Your priorities are messed up. They could be from a country with a lost CoL so $28k is a huge deal, they could be living the life they want doing a job they love, etc... Just so happens some future tech is interesting enough that they wish they could afford that too. Not everyone is in tech for the FAANG bucks! Although if GP wishes they could earn more I assume any account holder on HN is technical enough to find a remote job paying more than that if they wanted.
- eternityforest 3y agoI'm in the US, where the CoL is pretty high, but I'm also very clumsy and really don't have any business being on the road, which is probably my #1 career weakness by far, entry level embedded systems is often very onsite heavy.
- eternityforest 3y agoI'm super clumsy and really shouldn't be on the road at all. Before I moved I spent hours on the bus every day, here I can mostly only do remote since the bus is so limited. Full self driving would complete change everything. I could look at jobs I've never even thought about, because of the need for transportation.
- Spooky23 3y agoUniversities always pay the professional-ish help poorly. You want to be a janitor or a deputy Vice Provost or something to work at a college.
- dysoco 3y agoWell yeah, it's a government job so it's probably going to suck money-wise; the guy I know ended up losing money I believe because he had to buy a lot of snow clothes and paid travel expenses on his own account. Moreover, I believe he had a really bad time there because the population in the base was mostly military and they treated him like shit in the most military bootcamp style with physical aggressions and such. So, he ended up not completing the whole term. (This probably will depend on the country of course).
- Eddygandr 3y agoIt’s a research institute so I don’t think it’s directly a government role, more like a university. I see adverts at Oxford University for sysadmins at around £45-65k so it’s on the low side for what I consider comparable jobs, but my thinking might be flawed
- robertlagrant 3y agoIt's pretty bad considering Oxford prices. (Source: I am an Oxford resident.)
- Eddygandr 3y agoAgreed, although most companies in Oxford never really matched living costs either (well, housing costs) - Oxford Uni pay staff comparably to other companies in the area (like Elsevier or Oxford Computer Consultants). Let alone the low salaries in academia there...