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Comment #1082

2006-12-24T03:08:05Z

Ahh! I wanted to come...I heard about the gingerbread train in your e-mail. Bronchitis prevented my appearance, so I sloughed through the other meeting after they had woken me from my nap. It seems like it would have been fun!

Comment #1081

2006-12-23T14:50:14Z

So, you went to a different care group Christmas party and skipped ours??? How could you?

See what you missed. (scroll down a bit)

Comment #1080

2006-12-23T07:25:15Z

Yes, I also brought it up at the caregroup Christmas party that wasn't mine.

Comment #1079

2006-12-22T17:11:54Z

"Laedelas" thought about this on her own blog.

Comment #1078

2006-12-19T01:53:59Z

Yes, I did think about that after I played around with poking in different numbers. It bottoms out at around a couple hundred dollars a year. It is good for Americans to remember that they are significantly richer than most of the world, no matter how poor they think they are here.

Jack Ganssle just had his readers fill out a survey for 2006, so I am sure I will see the numbers soon. His surveys cover a fairly narrow band of embedded software engineers, though all ages and locations.

Comment #1077

2006-12-18T23:24:23Z

Interesting. But not too informative. I know that even the poverty level here is wealthy compared with much of the world, and I get the point, but I find statistics like this useless because they're so simplistic. Annual salary without information about what kind of a living that salary can buy is pretty meaningless. When Porter and his coworkers were training Indians to take over their jobs, the Indians' salaries would have been considered pretty poor here. Yet in India those salaries provided a great lifestyle.