The frustrations of being a contractor
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Cube? Mwhahahahahah...my office is 2.69 acres of parklike bliss that I can run around on fully naked at any time I please if the stresses should become too much. ;)
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
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Yeah, I hear ya there... our property used to be a commercial palm farm, so there are friggin palm trees everywhere... we are going to clear a couple of acres of them (machinery job), but the ones around the house (mixed with natives and a healthy wildlife population) will stay... You can't see our house from the road or from any neighbour - NIIIIIIIIICE...
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
Whoa! Seriously? I know a whole bunch of palm tree collectors and growers that would a) Love to see pictures of everything there and b) would probably come and take them off your hands if there were any small transportable ones.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
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Yeah, I hear ya there... our property used to be a commercial palm farm, so there are friggin palm trees everywhere... we are going to clear a couple of acres of them (machinery job), but the ones around the house (mixed with natives and a healthy wildlife population) will stay... You can't see our house from the road or from any neighbour - NIIIIIIIIICE...
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
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I say, you need a raise. I would recommend a 33% raise, cut your time back to 40 and wella, instant raise. It takes a pair to just say no.
MrPlankton
I second that. Gave myself a 40% raise a year ago, dropped back to 3-days / week (mostly, give or take but I am supposed to be developing my own project) - income went up by 30%. Don't undercut yourself - you may as well be a wage-slave if you do that. 60-hour weeks area mug's game - I'd rather dig holes for peanuts than die in a cubicle of a stress-induced fat-attack.
The Broadcast Systems Documentation SYSTEM "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" -Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Please warn me if the stresses become too much
Take a chill pill, Daddy-o .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Why? Do you want to watch? ;)
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
It takes a few minutes for his satellite linked directly to YouTube to get into position...
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Why do I continue to contract when I work 50-60 hours, creating systems that ultiamtely end up saving hundreds of thousands of dollars... only to be forced to share a small cube. All the while a set of interns are running around completely cluess, and with full cubes.
I have been working for years trying to get my own business started. I have had enough of incompetent, arrogant bosses and all the political crap that comes with being an employee. I was a consultant for 3 years and much preferred the situation until constant rate cuts forced me and many others back into wage slavery... Who cares how much money you save the company you have an income and you are more on your own than us "trench runners"...
Steve Naidamast Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@ix.netcom.com
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Cube? Mwhahahahahah...my office is 2.69 acres of parklike bliss that I can run around on fully naked at any time I please if the stresses should become too much. ;)
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
The frustation of being a contractor outside USA is that you don't qualify to a Visa, because the embassy says you don't have "enough strong ties" with your country, even if you have a 12-year family and a 2-acres country house like me. :(
Best regards, Jaime.
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Why do I continue to contract when I work 50-60 hours, creating systems that ultiamtely end up saving hundreds of thousands of dollars... only to be forced to share a small cube. All the while a set of interns are running around completely cluess, and with full cubes.
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Nice! We have almost to much too manage as it is. We planted over 400 cedar trees by hand around the outside permiter, fenced it all, put in over a kilomerter of hand built gravel trails, planted 29 species of bamboo etc etc. If we had even an acre more it would become a full time job.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
I. Hate. You. Both. ;P. Just kidding. I'm perfectly happy with my 10x10 home office/bedroom and the roommate who's been passed out on the couch for 3 days from a bender following his unplanned "leave of absence" of employment.
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It takes a few minutes for his satellite linked directly to YouTube to get into position...
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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I. Hate. You. Both. ;P. Just kidding. I'm perfectly happy with my 10x10 home office/bedroom and the roommate who's been passed out on the couch for 3 days from a bender following his unplanned "leave of absence" of employment.
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Why do I continue to contract when I work 50-60 hours, creating systems that ultiamtely end up saving hundreds of thousands of dollars... only to be forced to share a small cube. All the while a set of interns are running around completely cluess, and with full cubes.
Don't forget having to park in the "contractor lot" which is a 10 minute walk down the road.
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Whoa! Seriously? I know a whole bunch of palm tree collectors and growers that would a) Love to see pictures of everything there and b) would probably come and take them off your hands if there were any small transportable ones.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
My office is on the 14th floor in Manhattan. I get free food, free drinks (soda, coffee, tea, beer), and I'm a 14 floor elevator ride from some of the finest aspiring-model pedestrians in the world.
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Why? Do you want to watch? ;)
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
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Why do I continue to contract when I work 50-60 hours, creating systems that ultiamtely end up saving hundreds of thousands of dollars... only to be forced to share a small cube. All the while a set of interns are running around completely cluess, and with full cubes.
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Nice! We have almost to much too manage as it is. We planted over 400 cedar trees by hand around the outside permiter, fenced it all, put in over a kilomerter of hand built gravel trails, planted 29 species of bamboo etc etc. If we had even an acre more it would become a full time job.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
I raise your 5 acres and trees and bamboo with 9 gees and one duck which I let the kids feed while I play my 6 guitars
Logic Chip
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Why do I continue to contract when I work 50-60 hours, creating systems that ultiamtely end up saving hundreds of thousands of dollars... only to be forced to share a small cube. All the while a set of interns are running around completely cluess, and with full cubes.
I don't know about you, but I assume that you get paid for every hour you work unlike the poor employee that you share a cube with. Plus - and this is a BIG PLUS ...... you are pretty much exempt from all the office politics. Your not in those little employee meetings where the "SH%T Rolls Downhill" methods are heavily employeed. I have been in this business for over 35 years both as an employee and a contractor - in my opinion the contractor side is better.:cool:
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Nice! We have almost to much too manage as it is. We planted over 400 cedar trees by hand around the outside permiter, fenced it all, put in over a kilomerter of hand built gravel trails, planted 29 species of bamboo etc etc. If we had even an acre more it would become a full time job.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
I find that, as a contractor, the extra variety, experience, and income more than compensate me for the fact that I often must work in a broom closet. BTW: I live on 80 Acres of original aspen parkland forest with my wife who was born sometime after I wrote my first computer program.
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I find that, as a contractor, the extra variety, experience, and income more than compensate me for the fact that I often must work in a broom closet. BTW: I live on 80 Acres of original aspen parkland forest with my wife who was born sometime after I wrote my first computer program.