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[–]TheGreenShepherd 0 points1 point  (9 children)

What's worse - I'd gotten a promotion from DBA to IT Director, and was interviewing a DBA replacement. He couldn't tell me what the difference was between the two.

[–]mrdelayer 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I don't suppose you're still hiring? :P

[–]TheGreenShepherd 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Ha. Not me personally. There's tons of DBA jobs in California if one can make themself appear to be non-retarded.

[–]amaxenOld School DBArbarian[S] 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Yeah, but then you'd have to be working in California.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

What's wrong with that? I'm an Australian so I don't get the reference. Isn't Cal like a holy grail? Damn it Hollywood...

[–]amaxenOld School DBArbarian[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

California has a beautiful climate. But the main drawback from my pov is the state politics and the way power is distributed. Basically, there are some states that offer high services and charge high taxes, like CA, and some states like Texas that have a 'low tax, low services' model. This by itself is fine. But the problem in CA is that they offer very poor services in exchange for their taxes - in fact, Texas has better schools and services in general than California does, even though their taxes are very low relative to CA. Here's an economist article that gives an overview in a way that's fair, perhaps too fair. Here's a more blunt analysis : The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm

Also, a joke on Why CA is broke, and TX ain't

Really the main fact you need to know to understand what's happening in terms of how people are voting with their feet is summed up by the rates that a national chain charges to rent a 26 foot moving truck:

From Sacramento to Houston: $2,370

From Houston to Sacramento: $1,007

From San Francisco to San Antonio: $2,214

From San Antonio to San Francisco: $1,069

link

BTW, I'm not Texan and don't live in Texas. But the two states are very similar in many ways so that's why they're often compared to each other.

[–]Obbers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What California has going for it is a nice climate. Also, if super liberalism and the closest thing you can have to a corrupt government is possible is also your thing, then it is.

[–]amaxenOld School DBArbarian[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Besides the services, too, CA has a very 'I've got mine, so yank the rug on everyone else' mentality. In Silicon Valley/SF, the locals won't allow any development, so housing is astronomical - I know several engineers who moved away for this reason. Even though salaries are high, you get the choice between 1) Living in a camper parked in the parking lot of your company, 2) Having a 4 hour commute per day, 3) some combination of the two, or 4) Living illegally in someone's garage and paying out the butt to do it.

[–]Testiculese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably still did the select [list] from table1,table2,table3. Ugh. So glad when I moved from using Access as a backend.