Big Data

[nakatago]

I have a guy working for me in London as contractor. He is a MS Access developer. He might be younger but he looks early sixties. He is very good at what he does, loves it and is very well paid.

He is an example of surviving well without following the latest trends. Find the right niche and you can have a good living.

Damn, MS Access Fun times, and still rocks, within it's limitations - until Microsoft started pushing SQL Express.

I know some of my friends, who decided to stick with Cobol and lot of them are in high demand, considering a lot of others moved away from Cobol thinking there is no future for Cobol !!!

As a counter example, the Delphi programming language has plenty of fans but practically no new people are learning it. Some companies are moving on to C# just because people who know it who aren't gonna retire very soon plus tools licensing cost is starting to become unsustainable.

[Wd40]

I have a guy working for me in London as contractor. He is a MS Access developer. He might be younger but he looks early sixties. He is very good at what he does, loves it and is very well paid.

He is an example of surviving well without following the latest trends. Find the right niche and you can have a good living.

In Singapore an MS Access developer will get paid about 3-4k a month.

[zzm9980]

You just realized this now, not 3-4 years ago?

I wonder really if Singapore IT is that far behind, or just you wd40

The same guy who only recently discovered mobile phones can act as wifi hotspots.

Good point. I forgot about that post of his.

[bgd]

In Singapore an MS Access developer will get paid about 3-4k a month.[/quote]

Exactly, you have to find the niche that fits.

My man in the UK is earning over GBP150K.

[Sporkin]

In Singapore an MS Access developer will get paid about 3-4k a month.

Exactly, you have to find the niche that fits.

My man in the UK is earning over GBP150K.[/quote]
Here's hoping my knowledge of gwbasic and snakes would come in handy one day....

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[AndrewV]

what about medium sized data and above averag size data?
j/k, there are quite a few workgroups in singapore doing discussions, suggest you join them
but the high salaries for Big Data go to the guys who know how to derive intelligence (so they have some domain knowledge and what questions needs answering), not the guys who do the coding, nowadays lots of tools can do that for you, specially in an enterprise setting

[nakatago]

not the guys who do the coding

Hence the term 'code monkeys'.

[the lynx]

You just realized this now, not 3-4 years ago?

I wonder really if Singapore IT is that far behind, or just you wd40

The same guy who only recently discovered mobile phones can act as wifi hotspots.

Good point. I forgot about that post of his.

Poor guy. The internet will forever remember this

[cittakaro]

Hi wd40,

I am in the same situation as you. I am also working with MS BI Solution and thinking to learn big data since its really happening now.

Good luck