No, I have only used Elance. I have worked bids from standard sources in the 1990's and in the 00's complete more word of mouth (and CL) gigs into contracts, but I have not done much from any of those sites. While I do know cut splice debug PHP/PERL/PYTHON, I don't love programming in favor of systems and security work. Elance does protect everyone since you can test and verify your references, and you can use a sort of "escrow" account to know that your prospective "employer" actually DOES have the funds to pay you when the project work is done. http://wapedia.mobi/en/Obnosis | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:obnosis | Obnosis.com (503)754-4452 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:08:21 -0700 From: klsmith2020@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Market perspectives To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Lisa, Have you personally used RentACoder? What kind of experience did uoy have? Keith ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Thu, 10/16/08, Lisa Kachold wrote: From: Lisa Kachold Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Market perspectives To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 2:59 PM Go over to RentACoder: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/default.aspx As discussed on: http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/cs/2006/05/rent_a_coder.html Get a Federal EIN Number and do Corp to Corp coding: Call these great Federal employees to request your EIN (takes about 5 minutes). ...and remember to pay your taxes diligently. The evil clowns who run the universe love consequences! http://wapedia.mobi/en/Obnosis || http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obnosis | Obnosis.com (503)754-4452 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:27:14 -0700 From: pickell@gmail.com To: tfug@tfug.org; plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us; azphp@list.azphp.org Subject: Slightly OT: Market perspectives Good Afternoon everyone, I received a call this week from my boss (I work remotely from the home office in Ohio), and it would seem at the end of the month I am out of a job. Being in the game development field, if investment funding dries up, so does the jobs for doing that kind of stuff; particularly for independent companies like the one I am a part of. So I am curious about the state of the market out there. I know we have many people on these lists that are in the position to hire, or are very invested in the IT markets here in Arizona. Before I start updating my resume, and pounding the pavement I thought I would like an overview of what those people see out there due to the basic castration of the market's good will and faith. I did have plans to move to Ohio, but given the current circumstances, I am not sure sure if that is or will be a good idea. If the market here is bad, it will most likely be as bad there as well. Not to mention moving without a job is even harder. So thoughts, ideas, cries of the apocolypse perhaps? Sincerely, Judd Pickell Soon to be out of work. :) Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. Try it --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_102008