Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-13 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Saturday, 2002-10-12 at 11:50:12 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Todd Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Over here, the barometer looks like: For what it's worth, here is the major Freelancer/Professional Services site in Germany: http://www.gulp.de/kb/tools/gulpometer.html If you want to

Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Todd Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of things on there like this: Over here, the barometer looks like: http://www.jobstats.co.uk/ And those residual 4000 are agents trolling for leads from CVs. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard

OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Todd Finney
I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of things on there like this: - we'll pay you when we have some money - $20-$30 an hour - Do all this, we'll give you $75. I'm not *really* in the market, but more work is always better. Are the jobs

Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Ken Y. Clark
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Todd Finney wrote: Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:42:08 -0400 From: Todd Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Are things really this bad? I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of things on there like

Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Paul
--- Todd Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of things on there like this: - we'll pay you when we have some money - $20-$30 an hour - Do all this, we'll give you $75. I'm not *really* in the market, but more

Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Steven Adams
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:42 pm, Todd Finney wrote: Are the jobs on there really representative of what's going on out there, or are they somehow skewed? Just curious. cheers, Todd Take it from me, Todd, it is that bad. I'm fortunate in that I was able to make the move from