[Baypiggies] temporary help needed

[Donna Snow]

Laurence,

Honestly, the rate I put out there.. is definitely low.. for the Bay
Area.. I filled the original request with a gentleman in a lower cost
area of the country. I guess my mistake was posting such a rate on a
bay area based user group. The programmer who signed on can pay his
rent with less than 15 hours of work with us.. Totally understandable,
if you live in as expensive area as ours (one of the MOST expensive
areas in the country) the expectation is that our "hourly rate" will
be more than sufficient to keep us going (pay our bills, buy us new
computer bits.. etc) and these days $50 an hour barely does it..
especially if you have spouse and kids...

If anyone was offended by the rate I posted..I'm sorry..it wasn't my
intention to hurt anyone's feelings. If I had my druthers you'd all be
making what you are worth an then some..

Laurence.. there are lots of good programming jobs out there that pay
more and are worth pursuing.. I was just looking for a little help
(and I got it) and it wasn't for everyone..

Best of luck with your nursing career.. I hear they get great benefits! :-)

Best Regards,
Donna M. Snow, Principal
C Squared Enterprises
illuminating your path to Open Source
http://www.csquaredtech.com  imagination | innovation | brilliance
Business 408.385.1812
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On Dec 2, 2007 1:03 PM, Laurence Clark <hsuclarklarry at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> "we won't have time to "teach you" and you need to be able to look at the code ...
> If your rate is higher than $50 an hour.. we can't afford you :-("
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> Is this an indicator of the current software development labor market? Someone with a lot of experience and a perfect match of very specific skill requirements gets $50 and hour for temp work with no benefits? Good thing I'm going into health-care for my day-job!. Still love hacking out code though. Too bad my days of making a decent living at it are over. I'm going to go send in my nursing school applications now.
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> Donna Snow wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > (I posted this to plone-users  but wanted to see if anyone local is
> > interested in helping with this project.. we are looking for a third
> > person to help on occasional projects so this is a good opportunity
> > for someone who has background in zope/plone to get to know us and
> > establish an ongoing relationship with our company.. )
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> > We need someone who just happens to be in between projects and can
> > spare a week or two helping us to get caught up on an intranet project
> > we inherited.
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> > Need someone who can be brought up to speed quickly... is comfy in
> > Zope/Plone (2.5.3) and a good python coder with some experience in
> > z3..we won't have time to
> > "teach you" and you need to be able to look at the code .. and figure
> > out what it's doing.... documentation is better than it was.. but it's
> > still not as good as it could be... .. we need someone who can help
> > with development on an application and help squash bugs... (you also
> > need to be able to setup vpn on your machine to log into the dev
> > environment and must be comfortable with svn)
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> > Someone who can take over an application (product)..finish it and
> > debug it OR
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> > Someone who can go through an elementool bug tracker and start squashing
> > bugs AND/OR
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> > Someone who has strong templating/css skills to help with some of the form
> > layout work on these applications...
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> > we could also use someone with some strong Mochi Kit (javascript) knowledge
> > for some javascript debugging on one of the apps
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> > If your rate is higher than $50 an hour.. we can't afford you :-(
> > (wish we could) but we'll consider you for projects in the future...
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> > I'd like to get someone started ASAP.. (so we can bring you up to speed.)
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> > Please submit your resume and hourly.. and your availability (offlist
> > please) to donna at csquaredtech.com
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> > No calls please
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> > C Squared Enterprises
> > illuminating your path to Open Source
> > http://www.csquaredtech.com
> > imagination | innovation | brilliance
> > Business 408.385.1812
> > Fax 408.649.5543
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