S01E01

Yep, we went there. Well … a little. We talk about pay rates, responsibilities, and career paths for people in “UX.”

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Transcript

Matthew: Set a reminder for a month from now for a check-in.

Matt: Yeah.

Matthew: And be like, hey, just want to check in and make sure--

Matt: We have something in common. We're both impressed with my experience.

Matthew: So.

Matt: You were saying?

Matthew: I was saying that I was thinking, and you can tell I was thinking because I was sitting like this, six days ago, according to the LinkedIn post, I posted something on LinkedIn that was, I keep an eye on user experience design-related jobs in Portland because I'm always curious about what the rates are when they get posted. And this one was, the title of the job was experienced designer and the pay rate was $32-48 an hour.

Matt: 'Scuse me, what were those numbers again?

Matthew: $32-48 an hour.

Matt: Okay, just wanted to make sure I heard you correctly.

Matthew: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, to which I was like, F that. Like that's just, I'm sure you can make a case for that, like you found someone and they're on the street and you're like do you know what the letter U is? Yes. Do you know what the letter X is? Yes. Okay, I'm gonna pay you this much money to do some work now. Like there's where I feel like that pay rate really works. And so I posted the following on LinkedIn. I said, hey Portland, 'cause it was a Portland job, and brackets, likely a plethora, if you will, of other cities, no. Please no. Saying yes to this sets the market rate too, too low. You hurt your future self and others by buying into this. And then I ended with, and I'm not saying union, but I'm not not saying union. You know, not that stats are the only thing to go on but 7600 views of this post, which is high for my stuff, 42 likes, 28 comments, so the comments section kind of lit up on this one. A lot of, yeah! And a few people asking really good questions. To everyone who is saying just say no, essentially, do you still have jobs? Which I think is a really good question. You know,

Matt: Yeah.

Matthew:

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