[Coco] Expert C programmer wanted

[Mark Marlette]

At 02:06 AM 2/7/2005, you wrote:

On the lighter side of this.......

As much as this has been talked about...If all of the thread contributors 
would have pitched in, you might have already had a good jump on it.....

;)

Mark


>On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 01:31 -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:
>
> >
> > Those who overcharge will only be paid by dummies.
> >
>
>Is Dummy Cash a somehow less valuable?
>
> > The smallest bid usually wins.
> >
>
>Perhaps. But my experience is that most projects don't even go out for
>bid. The project goes to  "some guy you know" that you either worked
>with in the past or that you know through other people. Business is all
>about creating good relationships with suppliers, contractors,
>investors, customers, etc. Often the work contracted out isn't core to
>the business, so it's an occasional hit to the IT budget, and getting it
>done successfully is much more important than squeezing the contractors.
>
> > There are other people who can do your work (and better?).
> >
>
>It would be conceited for any programmer to think there's nobody better
>(Conceited Programmer?: News at 11 ;-)  ). Of course there is. But
>clients are usually not looking for Mr. Right, or Mr. Cheap, they're
>looking for Mr. Right Now, reasonably capable and available at an OK
>price.
>
>Also, if you undersell yourself, you'll just make your client nervous
>that you either don't know what you're doing/have low self-worth, or
>that as soon as you get wind of a better rate you'll head for the door.
>You have to find a happy medium.
>
>All that said, nobody is going to hand over $50K to any programmer
>before work is complete. Every contract I have ever done was paid in
>installments at milestones, or it was straightforward pay-as-you-go.
>Safer for everybody that way.
>
>-- John.
>
>
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