roflol I'm glad I'm not the only one that does silly things from time to time!
Having said that let me drift this conversation a little bit. What are the reasons to use a consultant? For me it's mainly two fold. 1: I can hire the best in the field. I'm not stuck with what talents I've got. I'm also not stuck with someone that needs to know a lot about a lot of things. A consultant will often be a specialist in a fairly narrow field. ex: I can't tell you how to handle routing, but if you want to take radios, routers, servers etc. and combine those with some hard work and a potential customer base I can help you turn that into cashflow and, usually, profit. 2: Having access to more than one expert. If I had taken the time to learn servers, routers etc. or if I'd have hired a guy who's main, or even only, job it is to take care of those devices I'd be beholden to that one person. If they quit, got fired, died or whatever I'd be stuck for however long it took to find a replacement and train the new guy. With a consultant it's not much more complicated than picking up the phone and calling another consultant. Having said that I use Butch a lot. He's busy so the rest of you guys go find your own expert! grin Personally I don't know anyone that does as good of a job of working on the devices and has the patience to deal with my ignorance of that part of my business. The great part of it is that I *can* pick up the phone and call any of 3 or 4 others that also know how to do what Butch does for me. My choice today is to use Butch, but it's certainly nice to know I have options. It's up to Butch to make sure I never feel the need to develop a relationship with anyone else. How do others look at in-house vs. consultant workers? marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Belton" <b...@belwave.com> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] OFFLIST: Re: Mikrotik User Meeting >I agree with Josh's comment. Butch has been the first and last MikroTik > consultant we've needed. > > Best, > > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Alan Bryant > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:16 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] OFFLIST: Re: Mikrotik User Meeting > > I second Butch as a personal recommendation. We haven't had to use him > much, but he has always had great recommendations for questions I have > asked on the list as well as questions I wanted to ask and someone > else beat me to it. > > Also, his QOS script for RouterOS is pretty good as well! > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Josh Luthman > <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: >> I do see Butch's point. Need to relax on the wording. >> >> My personal recommendation is to use Butch as he is the first and last >> consultant I have needed. >> >> On Jul 29, 2010 7:49 PM, <lakel...@gbcx.net> wrote: >> >> Ooooppppssss! >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Butch Evans <but...@butchevans.com> >> Sender: wireless-boun...@wispa... >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -- > Alan Bryant | Systems Administrator > Gtek Computers & Wireless, LLC. > a...@gtekcommunications.com | www.gtek.biz > O 361-777-1400 | F 361-777-1405 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
