[Novalug] CSPAN caller talking about Linux

[Dan Arico]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:50:59 -0500
Joe Klein <jsklein at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems the vast majority of business understand the economic model
> of price determination in a market, called supply and demand when it
> apples to the products or services they are selling their customers.
> 
> The same is NOT TRUE when they are attempting to hire qulified
> technical staff who, may be one of the few in the city, state,
> country or world with that experience and knowledge. The businesses,
> has been trained (MBA's?) that all staff are classified into specific
> 'band' established by the HR department. Although these bands state
> <MidLevel Developer>, they do not classify if that developer writes
> web applications, servers software, device drivers, or scripts. This
> band system was created to standardize the pay scales across the US
> and now the world.

There's one way out of this model. Become your own employer. Develop a
service or product and sell it on the open market.

If I were working for someone else doing exactly what I do now, I'd be
making a quarter of what I do now. The difference is the people I do my
work for don't have to pay for down time or benefits. It's cheaper to
use me. From my side, I'm busy all the time and I can have concurrent
jobs running and bill for all of them.

Dan Arico

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One OS to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them,
In the land of Redmond, where the Sales Reps lie.