Yeah, the IT culture is a lot different, and I guess business culture is still trying to fit IT into their standard model. It's too bad in a way -- the beauty of not working in a 9-5 workplace is that independents are often available for a lot more hours. I'm basically available from 9am to about 11pm most days. I don't waste time commuting. I do conference calls, Glance sessions etc. If I have to do something that could affect operations, I can do it after hours, and it doesn't seem like a burden to me. In a way, I don't get the on-site thing even for big companies. I was doing some work for a very large company a few months back, and we were doing conference calls with the manager in NYC, IT in Oklahoma, and a vendor in Boston. Part of it is logic too, for a developer. It seems much more efficient to create your own work environment rather than sitting in a noisy bunch of cubicles. It's all the same work -- let's talk on the phone or even go on-site for specs and requirements, and then let me go off and do the work. Well, it's almost 11am -- time to get a shower. ;) Steve In a message dated 4/17/2008 2:34:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
on 2008-04-17 09:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following: > This may have been mentioned already, but maybe the best people out > there are independent? >From just coming off of (and still trying to) hire PHP programmers, I have to say that a great many resumes and interviews I've had are with people who aren't willing to work on-site; they want to telecommute 80-90% and work from their apartments in their jammies and slippers. Best, worst, in-between-est, I can't find someone who wants to work full-time. KDHA: no piping up about where the site is. It's not THAT bad. > Steve //jbaltz -- jerry b. altzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jbaltz.com thank you for contributing to the heat death of the universe. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)
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