Because I'm 54, an engineer, and have recently worked for $12 an hour.
Employers assume if you'll work cheap, you're not any good.
If you ask for what you're actually worth, they "can't afford" you.
It took THREE H1-B's to replace me on my last job...
28 posted on 03/31/2007 10:34:17 AM PDT by null and void
(To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)