> > seek out like-minded company, for inspiration and moral support if nothing
> > else. I'm looking for successful examples to follow, and potential allies.
>
> Well I have been thinking about making the jump for a long time,
> but I am finding it very hard todo so. But eventually I want to
> s
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:50:21PM +, Nick Woolley wrote:
> I also have other friends who have companies and do work for them
> occasionally. The main reason I'm asking this question about cooperatives is
> because working on one's own can be damn hard, and the lesson seems to be to
I know
On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 8:25 pm, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > [herding cats]
>
> (I'd like to see a moritorium on using this phrase. It was kind of funny
> the first hundred or so times, now it just seems to be rather
> unimaginative and cliche'd - not a trait I usually associate with
> programmers.
On Fri Feb 28 16:56:53 2003, Ng Wu Lee wrote:
>
> In some ways this would be like setting up a company, the difference being
> that there is no company (no central one anyway), and there are fewer strings
> attached: individuals are free to work within the cooperative and without it.
>
> And as
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:25:25PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > [herding cats]
> (I'd like to see a moritorium on using this phrase. It was kind of funny
> the first hundred or so times, now it just seems to be rather
> unimaginative and cliche'd - not a trait I usually associate with
> program
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:56:53PM +, Ng Wu Lee said:
> A couple of years ago I read an article linked by /. (which I can't find)
> describing a phenomena allegedly occurring in the US wherein groups of
> programmers, web designers, project managers and artists etc. were forming
> cooperativ
[snip]
>a phenomena allegedly occurring in the US wherein groups of
>programmers, web designers, project managers and artists etc. were
>forming cooperatives and finding or generating work on their own
>after being made redundant.
>
> * Does anyone know of any examples of this kind of thinking?
>
> [herding cats]
(I'd like to see a moritorium on using this phrase. It was kind of funny
the first hundred or so times, now it just seems to be rather
unimaginative and cliche'd - not a trait I usually associate with
programmers. TIMTOWTexpressI surely!)
> * Does anyone know of any examples of t
Hi,
I too am job-free/free-lance and currently working through personal contacts
only. Agencies are not doing much for me, and I tend to agree that a more
effective way forward is to sell yourself directly via networking.
A couple of years ago I read an article linked by /. (which I can't fin
