My long-term business partner, Trent, told me the other week he was going to write a rebuttal to my previous rant, “What’s wrong with ClearQuest“, called “What’s getting slightly better about ClearQuest”. I think he’s struggling to fill a few paragraphs though, because it hasn’t been forthcoming.
He recently wrote a reply on the forum that the admins must have deleted, completely lacking a sense of humour as they do. Anyway, it’s worth blogerising for posterity.
i am a fresher to clearquest.i am still in learning phase of it.i will be very thankful to you if some of you can give me some information on clearquest scope for career growth
In my neck of the woods you’re more typically seeing $35.00/hr for a contract position for ClearQuest admin.
Trent responded with the following:
$35/hr? To work on ClearQuest? No thanks, I’d rather stay home and pull teeth.
I won’t get out of bed these days for anything less than £100/hr if I have to do ClearQuest work. And I increase my minimum hourly rate annually at about 5 times the rate of inflation. You can be horrendously incompetent in London and still fetch £450-600/day, depending on whether your client has any idea about ClearQuest. (The hidden subtext here is that you can make a lot of money claiming to specialise in ClearQuest, and as long as no-one else in the company knows any better, get away with it even if you know diddley-squat.)
