Comments on: Leaving MySQL, MySQL Consulting

By: Percona turns two today ! | MySQL Performance Blog

Percona turns two today ! | MySQL Performance Blog — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:34:50 +0000

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By: walterbyrd

walterbyrd — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:19:40 +0000

>>companies have hard time filling MySQL experts position at often $100K+ rate<<

I am in Denver. I see ads for Oracle and SQL-Sever DBAs and developers all the time, usually in the $50 – $70 an hour rate. I very rarely see ads for MySQL experts. Usually MySQL is an also-ran skill for Linux admins or PHP developers. At least, that is what I am seeing. Maybe I’m missing something?

Are you saying that off-shore DBAs and developers, are not as good as local? I can not think of any reason why that would be.

Even if employers are paying strong salaries to MySQL experts today, will that last? Considering all the aggressive offshoring that is going on, it would be hard for me to feel confident about that.

I am presently not working. I was laid-off from my last job because the entire department was off-shored to Argintina. So please don’t tell me that sort of thing does not happen.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:05:21 +0000

Hehehe,

I do not know why those people keep coming to us instead of hiring MySQL Experts for $1 per hour…

Speaking seriously I would ask another questions – why those “experts” charging $1-$15 dollars per hour are working for such low rate while companies have hard time filling MySQL experts position at often $100K+ rate ? May be it is different kind of experts after all.

By: walterbyrd

walterbyrd — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:38:26 +0000

How can a USA company possibly compete?

Offshore companies are offering MySQL consulting for a little as $1 an hour. Even offshore companies that offer that have consultants with degrees and the full range of MySQL certs, are only charging about $15 an hour.

Since MySQL is mostly used for web-work, I would think that most MySQL consultants could work from anywhere.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:49:51 +0000

Thanks Artem,

Indeed things go well we have a lot of work – fun work and a lot of customers – good happy customers.
I enjoy being my own boss (and boss for bunch of other people) and try to be good boss for them
So there is surely no regrets

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:02:07 +0000

Heh heh, looks like you’re not doing too bad. It’s fun to look back at your posts a few years later and realize that you had no idea what was going to happen back then.

By: How many people will leave MySQL now ? | MySQL Performance Blog

How many people will leave MySQL now ? | MySQL Performance Blog — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:41:50 +0000

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By: MySQL Performance Blog » Life Beyond MySQL

MySQL Performance Blog » Life Beyond MySQL — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:35:08 +0000

[...] When I was leaving MySQL I wrote I will be doing some Web projects on my own, besides doing MySQL Consulting. I think some people thought I am just using that as an excuse and really I will only do consulting. So I’m pretty happy to announce my first project. [...]

By: peter

peter — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:38:16 +0000

Thanks Mikhail.

Would be good to see you again sometime.

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:11:20 +0000

Hi Peter,

I wish you good luck, have a lot of fun in your new job!

However we could meet somewhere in a biz field.

It was a real pleasure working with you regarding MySQL bottlenecks and benchmarking.

Good luck again,
Mikhail