Re: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-29 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I'd like to thank everyone's input on this subject. It has been most educational. The situation was that I was being approached by someone who knew me and knew my work, so was presumably approaching me directly on purpose. The reason why I asked is because I guessed that he had some

Re: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-26 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
hang wrote: Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:15:48 +0200 (IST) From: Geoff Shang To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs Hi, I've been offered work on a (presumably) one-off project, writing some PHP code to collect data from devices out in the field and store it in a MySQ

Re: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-25 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: Speaking of a global market, and NOT to put you off, good luck competing with the rates that can be found at http://www.google.com.au/search?q=hire+a+programmer&ie=UTF-8 The nature of employment is that until you go low enough to reach zer

Re: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-25 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/26 Geoff Shang : > My question is, what is the going rate for work like this?  The person > asking is in the US but obviously they're happy to go off-shore for this so > it's not just the US I need to worry about.  I'm of course prepared to be > flexible but I don't want to under-sell mysel

Re: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-25 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 25, 2009, at 8:05 PM, sammy ominsky wrote: In short, DO NOT undersell yourself if you're worth it. But you do have to sell yourself, and explain patiently and clearly why it's worth it for them to spend real money for real work. And to add the flip side, don't sell yourself if y

Re: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-25 Thread sammy ominsky
On 25/10/2009, at 19:15, Geoff Shang wrote: I've been offered work on a (presumably) one-off project, writing some PHP code to collect data from devices out in the field and store it in a MySQL database, to provide information/updates (as yet not fully specified) back to these devices, and w

OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-25 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I've been offered work on a (presumably) one-off project, writing some PHP code to collect data from devices out in the field and store it in a MySQL database, to provide information/updates (as yet not fully specified) back to these devices, and web pages to allow users to track the infor