Owen: I am a currently unemployed software engineer myself. I have been in the industry in various roles for well over 30 years but am not ready to retire. However, I look at my current time of unemployment as an opportunity to pay back to the NetBeans community some of what I have gained from it. Until the recent emails about joining the NetCAT 9.0 effort I had not considered volunteering for the work. However, after completing this email to you I will sign up to put my time where my mouth is. I can afford the time now, once I am employed again I will not be able to.
I don’t mean to be critical of you, just trying to offer a different viewpoint on being unemployed at the moment. Take care, Frank Burough > On Mar 7, 2018, at 6:27 PM, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I quite enjoy NetBeans, and I would like to aver my wishes for it's ongoing > success. I am looking at contributing to this thread with some hesitation, so > I'll put my statements forth, and then see what becomes of what I say before > I venture more. > > Contributing more than "anonymous usage data" is a contentious move for me > because I am somewhat sore over the fact that I cannot secure a paid job in > an industry which I have sought contribution since I was 15 (29 years' ago). > I don't find the proposition encouraging of my offering my time for nothing > in an industry (a wider context than just NetBeans) too conceited to pay for > my time as a contributor who would work in a part-time capacity and from a > place of his own choosing. > > Although I appear to gain from the voluntary contribution of others to this > extent, I want someone to start paying me for the skills I have honed over > nearly three decades in such a way as I can make a sustainable contribution. > I don't want to give my time freely within this industry unless I first > derive an income with the skills I have. > > Sorry that I cannot contribute any more than usage data. > > Owen. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
