Re: [Perl Jobs] very entry level (VISTA) cgi mod_perl and system scripter (onsite), United States, MA, Lowell
[email protected] (Uri Guttman)
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>>>>> "DR" == Dave Rolsky <[email protected]> writes: DR> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, John Von Essen wrote: >> I understand that the posting company claims to be non-profit, but they >> can't compare themselves to the peace corp in regards to low salary. >> Peace corp workers get benefits like housing and food - which makes up >> for the low salary. >> >> In all honesty, I really think it is not appropriate to list something >> like this on jobs.perl.org. It is only acting as a dis-service to the >> development community as a whole with regards to public opinion and >> perception. DR> As I said, I think this is related to Americorps. If you follow the link DR> in the job listing (http://csl.ltc.org/go/vista/), you'll see that this DR> does appear to be an Americorps job. and i recall VISTA stands for Volunteers In Service To America. it was the domestic version of peace corps and older than americorps (which clinton stole from a MA program :) so if they provide room and board and the applicants are young (need all that energy and the ability to live cheaply!) and motivated it would be a good match. this is not anything like a company trolling for cheap kiddies. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [email protected] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org