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I was curious to see the state of job offers for django gigs, and I didn't find as much as I hoped to find, but one thing caught my attention on most jobs, specially the ones that involved php as well ... most of the ads look for a three to four man job to give to a single guy and to pay him only 20$ per hour, where you should be a super developer, have 5 years minimum experience and be proficient in the fields of: database design, system administration, javascript ninja, gis knowledge, photoshop, cms, illustrator, web 2.0, interface designer, deploy to cloud, multicore programming, and the list could go on and on to even the office suite for a graphic designer job ( which is by the way one of the most idiotic requirements I ever heard).

Having unrealistic impressions

I have the impression that some people think that designers or programmers are super genetic humans who are like a super-duper universal do it all wrench, or that we are like the cleaning products that hit our TV commercials with claims of clean it all, one of a kind 4 in one products, shampoo-conditioner and hair hardener, detergent-cleaner-freshener, all with the do it all and be great at it tag.

Taking a stand against this nonsense

I think that we need to express our desire for people who hire to have realistic demands for job positions, and to advertise for specific job fields, be it a media specialist, or a graphic artist, or a database administrator, or a front-end developer, not a super do it all kind of human, because if those people existed ... they will not work for your small project, instead they will work for people that know what they are worth, because all the skills most of the job posts I see nowadays are worth way more than 20-50$ per hour.