| ▲ | Job: Head of Stonehenge(english-heritage.org.uk) |
| 101 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 59 comments |
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| ▲ | davidschof an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Their senior solution architect vacancy has similar pay: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers... Somewhat less eminent job title though. |
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| ▲ | madrox an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Building a henge, are we? |
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| ▲ | kombookcha 24 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You bastards, you never told me 200 miles. 200 miles in this day and age! I don't even know where I live now! |
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| ▲ | ggm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| * Must be proficient in use of mistletoe in unspecified rituals. * Must provide own sickle, and robes. |
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| ▲ | mattoxic 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I would have thought you'd need to be a druid |
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| ▲ | Quarrel an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Damnit. No WFH option. |
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| ▲ | xtorol an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Due to a typo in the paperwork sent to HR by the hiring manager, they are only paying 64,189 pence. The director was last heard chastising HR, saying "It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel." |
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| ▲ | faangguyindia an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| i know quite a few dev ops and frontend guys who were employed for last 4 years and are now driving taxi in india. |
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| ▲ | readthenotes1 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Job type
Permanent" I bet they enjoyed typing that in. "5,000 years+ -- depends on you" Might be another option if it were freeform text |
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| ▲ | onion2k 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "If I get the role, what will my budget for repairs be?" |
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| ▲ | zuzululu an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| really wish i keot my british passport |
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| ▲ | Mistletoe 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Honestly feels like a dream job. Imagine your ancestors smiling down on you if you are from Britain or just human. |
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| ▲ | kijin 11 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Considering the location, I would imagine that the ancestors prefer to haunt the barrows at night. Still a dream job if that's your thing. Just watch out for the Nazgûl. :) |
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| ▲ | russellbeattie 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I caught a live stream of Stonehenge during this past Winter Solstice (it was cloudy, naturally) and the streamer provided a bit of trivia that I hadn't heard before: George Washington's English ancestors, specifically Sir Lawrence Washington, were the owners of the West Amesbury Estate in Wiltshire, England, which included the land where the ancient Stonehenge monument sits. (Via Google) If you hadn't that before, welcome to the "Huh, that's a funny coincidence" club. |
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| ▲ | _alternator_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| On the front page? LLMs got lots of us programmers dreaming of leaving the profession, I suppose. |
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| ▲ | tyre an hour ago | parent [-] | | Is this not super cool regardless? Even if you love tech, was a fun little gem. |
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| ▲ | celsius1414 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Missed opportunity to say they’re ‘looking for a rock star to lead our team!’ |
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| ▲ | peebee67 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | They pretty much are, too. It certainly reads like some tech job ads. Rock star with 30 years experience. Graduate wages. | |
| ▲ | laszlojamf an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "a solid leader who can carry the weight of our massive responsibility" | |
| ▲ | chappi42 22 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | They don't look for rock stars. English heritage wants ideology: "You can connect with others through our EDI networks as a member or ally. These include Ethnic Diversity, Faith & Belief, Social Equity, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergence, Age, Disability and Gender Health and Wellbeing." (Should have mentioned Talibans, handy to blow up misplaced stones) |
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| ▲ | pants2 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sounds like a very cool job, and not sure about the UK job market, but seems to be wildly underpaid for the qualifications! |
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| ▲ | kristianc 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | This, shockingly, is actually quite well paid considering for the UK. Lead Data Scientist for the UK Government is currently advertising for a salary of £57,670 - £67,500. https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jco... | |
| ▲ | kaonwarb an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Not disagreeing, but it's also worth something to know, and say, that you are in charge of Stonehenge. | | |
| ▲ | sva_ an hour ago | parent [-] | | Must be an extraordinary honor to be in charge of a bunch of rocks over there. | | |
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| ▲ | YZF 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 36 hours per week. 25 days vacation (going to 28). Pension contributions. You can buy extra leave. Epic location, fun job, decent salary for the UK (where e.g. you don't pay for healthcare)... | |
| ▲ | jrflo 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm not in the UK, but from what I understand that's actually decent. US salaries, particularly in tech, are wildly higher than in most of Europe. | | |
| ▲ | oaiey 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | UK tech salaries are also not high. And 64k pounds for a history and/or business major is quite right. Do not forget also: history is a overrun study with many people afterwards driving taxis |
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| ▲ | loeg an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is like a 90th percentile UK salary. | |
| ▲ | phyzix5761 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Don't forget to deduct the 25% effective tax rate. Calculator: https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/estimate-paye-take-home-pay/y... | |
| ▲ | techterrier an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | this isnt all that *bad for something in the conservation / heritage / ngo sector edit: *obviously its not a wonderful salary, but for the sector....well I've seen worse. | |
| ▲ | y-curious an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Especially considering minimum wage “salary” in the UK is ~24k GBP, 64k is nothing imo. They call it the “wage squeeze” | | |
| ▲ | UnfitFootprint an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Average full time salary is 40k GBP. It’s +50% on the average which seems right for a non profit organisation in a non exec role | | |
| ▲ | jacknews 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It is a leadership role though. I don't know how many staff there are, but it's surely one of EH's most important locations. |
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| ▲ | loeg an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is like 90th percentile UK salary. It's good pay for the UK, a poor country. | | |
| ▲ | gbro3n an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The UK is still the 5th biggest economy in the world. Public infrastructure feels like it's under huge strain however, and there is also a big problem with inequality, which seems to be changing under Labour, albeit slowly. | | |
| ▲ | somenameforme 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Raw economy size can be misleading in two ways. The value of a dollar is much less or much more depending on where you're at. So an economy of 10 shekels might mean an economy of 100 widgets, or it might mean an economy of 1 widget. Purchasing power parity (PPP) attempts to account for that. The second is that economies are largely a product of population. An economy of a million making a million shekels is quite a bit different than an economy of 10 making a million shekels, so you also want to look at per capita values. Even both of these adjustments combined [1] can be extremely misleading (see: Ireland and many other places...), but they provide at least a less unreasonable basis for comparison than nominal dollars. And the UK is currently 30th there. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... | |
| ▲ | kristianc 4 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Inquality has barely moved per Gini in the last thirty years, and GDP is very misleading. https://ifs.org.uk/data-items/gini-coefficient |
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| ▲ | geysersam an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Let's not be delusional. The UK is not a poor country, and 64K is low by US tech standards but it's good by any other measure. | | |
| ▲ | kristianc 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | If the UK were a US state, its GDP per capita would rank it roughly on par with or just below Mississippi, making it the poorest state in the union. | |
| ▲ | loeg 4 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The UK is poor and sprinting as fast as it can towards being poorer. | |
| ▲ | bpodgursky 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's not a "good" wage in the US. It's exactly median. Which is fine, someone has to be median, but really underwhelming for the (presumably highly-educated and talented) head of the #1 national historical monument. | | |
| ▲ | mrwh 26 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad. | | |
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| ▲ | enraged_camel an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, but 25 days holiday plus bank holidays means you're working like half the year at most. ;) | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | And don't you knock of at lunch on Fridays anyways? So that's like a 4 day work week, because let's face it, you're not really doing anything on the day you're knocking off early anyways. See you at the pub! |
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| ▲ | swarnie an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Just a smidge over $63k after tax and before gibbs. The job market over here is shocking. | | |
| ▲ | loeg an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | This is equivalent to $85,700 USD, not $63k. | | |
| ▲ | theodric 44 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Read it again. $63k after tax and before "gibbs" i.e. government-provided social distributions. |
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| ▲ | dismalaf an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lol in Canada 64,000 pounds = $120K CAD which would put you in the 92nd income percentile. |
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| ▲ | green_wheel an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What's your role? I'm a CSO. Oh nice, Strategy or Security? Stonehenge. |
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| ▲ | quuxplusone an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | "Just to be clear, you are saying you manage a hedge fund, right?" "Yeah, a henge fund." "Hedge fund." "Henge fund." "Hedge." "Henge." "...I think we're on the same page." | | | |
| ▲ | bfeist an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Heard of it? |
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| ▲ | smashah an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Stonehenge would be a great AI Lab name! |
