Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Warren Khan" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: UK Help Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:21:05 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.226.57.226 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Hello. What you should do is go to something like newmonday.co.uk and look at the salaries - this will give you a rough idea of what you can expect and where (try to stick to the cities). Then go to fish4 to have a look at rental and house prices. Then you get the extras like buying a car, insurance, TV License, buying furniture (if not renting furnished places), shopping bills, etc. You could look at sharing a place with Students for the first part of your stay - while getting your head round prices and getting into the "scene". I would forget London, unless you can prove you're super-webDevMan, cos of all the dotcom crashes people will ASP for food round there. Have you tried looking for jobs related to where you come from? A girl from our place got a marketing job (in London) for a NZ tourist company just cos she knew the island (talentless mare!). Living comfortably is a large area - as you are a Student you probably won't like the fact that you will have to get up in the morning :P so do you mean own car, guest room, 32" Dolby TV, etc. or bedsit with easy access to a bus/train station and McDonalds? If you're into game progging as well - try looking for jobs with game companies in Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Scotland. Wages might not be so high but you can buy a smallish house with the 3 pieces of Rock Salt you'll get paid a year. On a side note - for the other people bored enough to read this far: Still no Linux. UPS is still sitting on their slippery hands. Gits. But FFX and GTAIII from Sony arrived - Hurrah, plenty of Ho' slappin' and accidentally wakking Wakka (they never give you enough phoenix down potions). Big Ups to Sony and Big Pants to UPS. And why leave NZ? I've heard it's a fantastic place apart from the gang violence. Errrm... Warren "Greg Cook" wrote in message news:afpdpg$pl018@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > Hey Guys, > > just looking at movingto the UK maybe some time soon, im a software > developer in New Zealand, and right now im a web specialist, i deal with > languages such as ASP, SQL, DHTML, XML, XSL, asp.net, vb.net, etc.. > > Im trying to get some ideas about whats a good wage in the UK, ive been > looking around and wages seem to vary alot from 25 - 45 for the types of > jobs id do. Are any of you guys in the same field as me, can anyone tell me > what the average wage for someone in the UK is, and could anyone tell me > what kinda money i need to earn to live comfortably while over there. > > Any info or help is apprecaited :) > > Greg > >