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Orginally posted by xxx

Getting 120 -130 even is a exception , You will get it in Big cities if you have a Green Card, and some rare skill like sap ,

Most of the times all desis end up 60 -70k bracket while on H1 , some even less !

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Wham,
Funny name.
You are lucky to have such a good job. stop complaining and be glad that you atleast have a job.
I am from Gujarat and have been here for 6 months. I am Oracle and Java but yet to get a break. I am right now selling credit cards for PC master card.
Hope to get job soon. I will try hard to find a good one.
Any help/ advise appriciated

Bhavani,
if you are selling credit cards, i need to buy one!!!!!

Hi!
You can walk into any loblaws store and often you will find an agent soliciting for credit cards. they change my venue each week and so i canot pin point where i will be exactly. I now work at Jane-Dundas Loblaws. We normally give either free cookies (worth $3) or 3 PC cola products (worth 47 cents each).
The advantage with PC master card is that they will never check your credit history but issue cards with $5,000 credit limit. you have 1% discount which can be redeemed for groceries and other stuff for multiples of $20 only.
hope this will help you

wow , looks like there is a way to get a credit card,
People are complaing that there is no way one can get a Credit card without History ,

Wham

First, I am soooo... curious to know what you were thinking when you decided on that username?? Did u trip and fall like WHAM!! and then came up to sign in to CD? or did someone hit you Whaaam!! when you were registering yourself....what...what?? Please tell!

Ok, now coming to your questions. I too am an Oracle Forms/Developer2000/PLSQL person and have been working in Hamilton for quite some time now.

As others have said, it is not appropriate to compare salaries of US and Canada. People certainly make more south of the border, but what purpose does that discussion serve? You are here in Canada. Even if someone makes 120K or 130K in the US that does not change anything here.

About your question on whether your salary at 45K is appropriate or not, the answer is most likely NO.

With 10 years of actual development experience, part of which you say was also in the US, IMHO you should been offered something above 55K at least.

The market for IT, that until now probably held better possibilities of jobs, appears to be getting saturated quite rapidly, especially with the influx of the former H1 visa holders who came to the US during the late 90's boom and but could not manage a green card within the time frame of 6 years.

Salary also follows the standard pattern of any marketeable commodity. High supply, low demand - low salary.

It goes without saying that you should continue to look for better opportunities and obviously not leave the current one until something concrete is available.

You live in Toronto and so I assume you must be commuting everyday. Do you drive or do you take GO transit? That itself must be quite an exhausting exercise, spending more than 3 hours commuting everyday.

Your comment of Hamilton being full of creepy labourers is incorrect.

Perhaps your impression is derived from the area that you go to work. The steel factories are in the industrial part of the city and are not a proper sample. Hamilton is a pretty big town, a big chunk of it being on the Niagara escarpment, what the locals here call as "the mountain". Besides, there are quite a few satellite townships, the most popular being Burlington.

If it is around desis that you feel comfortable, Stoney Creek is quite well geared to address that need of yours.

Cost of living in Toronto is much higher and you are likely to save more if you moved.

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DiogenestheBaba,

what happened. How come you were unable to guess that WhamBaba is the same as PrabhujiBaba.

Guess you didn't meditate today.

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