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Albuquerque Ranks 13 FOr Best Places For Business And Careers
See for yourselves at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/1/bestplaces08_Albuquerque-NM_2524...
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Permalink Reply by NMGolfHacker on -
"Abq is now where near moving too fast."
Supposed to be
"Abq is no where near moving too fast."
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Permalink Reply by NMGolfHacker on
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Verizon Wireless Starting pay $12.50 per hour. More than what you say is the average.
Fidelity jobs will be between $37k and $65k ($17 per hour to $31.25). Those of course don't include Schott Solar, Advent Solar, Sony Imageworks and Albuquerque Studios which all have starting paying much more than $10 per hour.
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Permalink Reply by Martini Mike on -
Call center jobs start at $17 an hour?! GEEZ!!! Things have changed. Makes me sorry to have grown a career that extends beyond answering a phone & hoping someday to be the call supervisor. I will not name what Fortune companies I am contracted by or reside at but either way they seem to need to get with it as far as cost of living wages apparently. I am also not saying I make less than or similar to $17 an hour. But you think you put decades into something & you could make a pretty penny answering a phone instead with much less stress, no education, and ... oops... just sounded like one of those whiners people referred to earlier! Scratch that- happy to have a job in an "at will" state!! (sssshhhh Mike, mortgage remember?)
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Permalink Reply by NMGolfHacker on
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BTW...The Fidelity Jobs are not typical call center jobs.
From Fidelity website this is what they are looking for.
"The majority of these positions will be in customer and client services to support the payroll, health and welfare, and human resources services that Fidelity provides to corporate clients."
Open Positions:
Site Scheduler
Senior Staffing Consultant
Instructional Designer
Instructional Design Project Manager
Payroll Sales Associate
Director Payroll Client Service Management
HR Service Associate
Assistant Security Manager/Security Manager
Payroll Sales Associate - Future Opportunities
Vice President, HR Strategy and Management Effectiveness
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Permalink Reply by Martini Mike on
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AAaahhhh... feel so much better now! There was so much concentration on the whole call center thing by others that it was hard to focus. Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Don Pizzolato on -
These lists are kind of silly. Wasn't Albuquerque number 1 a couple of years ago?
On a somewhat related note; Eclipse Aviation appears to be in the process of shutting down. They laid off 650 workers today (38% of their workforce) and the rumor is that there will be 400 more on Monday.
To get an idea of just how ossified the local employment base is check out Albuquerque Economic Development's "Major Employers" page. When I moved here in 2001 the major employers were public sector (APS/Kirtland/UNM/CABQ etc.), Intel, Eclipse (potentially) and a handful of smaller, high tech start ups like Advent Solar. Flash forward to 2008 and the while the public sector is holding its own (it always does) Intel has shrunk significantly, Eclipse is near total collapse and firms such as Advent employ at best a few thousand. The film business and related entities (ABQ Studios / Sony Imageworks) are a lone bright spot but are heavily subsidized and their presence can essentially be voted out of existence overnight.
The narrative today is the same as in 2001; should something happen with either Kirtland / Sandia or Intel the picture is quite bleak.
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Permalink Reply by NMGolfHacker on
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Companies change...business changes. Intel has shrunk but they are not going anywhere, they just completed a $1.5B upgrade of Fab11X becoming its most advanced manufacturing facility. ABQ Studios/Sony Imageworks also have made some major investments to the tune of several millions. Don't know where you get the idea that they can be voted out of existence. Presbyterian is building a new hospital as well as other projects such as Legacy Hospital Partners/UNM hospital, HP support center, Schott solar, Fidelity, EMCORE expansion and moving of headquarters from NJ. Advent "employs at best a few thousand". That is more than "at best". Verizon is adding more jobs and Intel is starting to bring some jobs back. Molina Healthcare broke ground today on a $20M IT center at Mesa del Sol. Most people also forget about The Gap, Sennheiser and SUMCO. None of this takes into account the jobs that are created to support these major employers. I can understand why some people want to dedicate themselves to the "what if's". That is human nature I guess.
Albuquerque is doing just fine. 3.9% unemployment rate is nothing to sneeze at.
Que up: "These jobs are not well paying". :^)
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Permalink Reply by Don Pizzolato on
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What makes an employer "major"?
My "few thousand" was referencing the entire "Notable Technology Companies" list on the AED page. Advent employs all of 80 people. If I recall they are also "retooling" and are all but shut down.
Albuquerque can do much better, but it has to stop lying to itself about how robust the local economy is. People take whatever comes down from AED or the Governor as gospel. Tesla Motors is a great example; rolled out with much fanfare about a year ago most everyone swallowed hook, line and sinker. There were a few skeptics, most notably Andrew Webb of the Journal, who saw the venture for what it truly was; high risk and highly unlikely. Sure enough one year later Tesla backed out. Was anyone truly shocked?
Local and state economic development officials have a tough job. They do the best they can but are vying for scarce jobs with a number of other states, most without much of the baggage NM brings.
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Permalink Reply by Doug R on -
Don - it is certainly not perfectly stable out in ABQ. In fact, depending on where you're at career-wise and financially, the Duke City can be a scary place. But where else do you go?
I'll be happy to donate my California sales job to anyone qualified. If you don't have the right experience don't expect to get a base salary as high as mine. In fact, to break into tech sales I'm hearing that your base might be 40% less. Ouch! out here where many who make more than me are in deep doo doo. But there are always exceptions.
I would guess that if you moved to the Bay Area you should count on having about $6,000 in out going expenses per month (with a sweet deal that I have on the house I rent - only $2,000 a month! My boss is paying $3500 a month to rent his place). With the tax rate.....(doing a quick calculation) you need to gross about 120k.
If you're in tech sales, I'm not seeing base salaries that high today even for the most experienced. So, you might get a job in the 50 to 75k base range but you better start closing those deals quickly since you will have to make 120k.
Yes, I know things have dropped but the house I rent is only worth 650k right now down from 780k. Still out line with reality and can you imagine paying the mortgage on that place? The jobs out here really don't support it in the traditional sense - THE very reason so many are going through foreclosure.
It's tough. ABQ isn't perfect, neither is California and alot of other places. But I'm sure there is a place. How to find it and how long will it stay that way is the question.
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Permalink Reply by Joe S Sausage on -
I think that the North Valley is a very Special place, i love it here. it is what one makes of it, the specialness comes from inside. i've created my own little network, my own line of products, it's very cool, i place the negative in perspective, for me it's small percentage of my interactions, heck, to me, the north valley is #1. and to whomever is moving to town, just get on rio grande blvd. and open your nostrils, you'll find me.
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