One of Silicon Valley’s cleverest blogs, Valleywag, features a special report called Tech’s 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs. How bad are the jobs? Not that bad, really, and at about $50,000 – $80,000 a year they pay way above the national average for 2008 college grads.
“Soon America’s most bright-eyed graduates will enter the workforce and make their workaday homes in cubes at Google, MySpace, or Amazon.com. And they will suffer not just the indignity of having to work for a living, but also the dispiriting realization that a job at a cool company isn’t always that hot.”
The reader comments made this series come alive. My favorite concerns what’s missing from the job description for the exec assistant to Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore. Meanwhile, an $80,000 a year support engineer job at Amazon.com also made the list. One wag reader commented that, for that salary, “I could afford anti-depressants.”
I think the technology industry is one of the safest industries around.