Slightly OT: Market perspectives

[Lisa Kachold]

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. 

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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:08:21 -0700
From: klsmith2020 at yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Market perspectives
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Lisa,

Have you personally used RentACoder?  What kind of experience did uoy have?

Keith


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Keith Smith




--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
From: Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Market perspectives
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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!

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:27:14 -0700
From: pickell at gmail.com
To: tfug at tfug.org; plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us; azphp at 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. :)


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