teaching and comparisons
i got a call from tan the other day regarding a "business idea" she had in mind. when i returned her call, i found out that she wanted to get her employer to hire me to come in on the weekend and help her with learning basic html stuff. the idea was 2 saturdays, 5 hours each @ $50/hr = $500 (yay!). i love teaching and that kind of money is always nice to have so i accepted and showed up today (dreadfully tired after a long night @pavel's) ready to get her learn on.
first of all, her office is just amazing. she's got her own office, a huge window and a killer view. the company fridge is stuffed with free pop and juice and the entire workspace is really well laid out. it's a very welcoming environment. kinda makes me look at my current job and ask: "hey, why don't we have that?"
tan didn't have much of a problem letting it all sink in. after a while she was wanting to jump in and do new stuff just to see what it would look like. that's the kind of enthusiasm you like to see in the people you teach. after a while though, we got to talking about how nasty the code base of the company site is... and how much they paid for it.
i'm SO in the wrong line of work.
for the crappy site that this guy's done, he charged almost more money than i make in a year... BEFORE taxes. and now he wants more money (about the same as last time) to do an upgrade!
i remember when i was unemployed, that there were a lot of out of work geeks geeks around complaining that their competition was lowballing salaries just to get jobs. and while this was certainly the case (if you want a php/mysql developer for $22k/year, you're on crack there friend) there are obviously avenues to find better cash flow. this guy obviously found one, and from the looks of his work, i could write better code blindfolded with a 3-day hangover.
i like my free time (what little i have) but sometimes i think i should really be doing more contract work...
first of all, her office is just amazing. she's got her own office, a huge window and a killer view. the company fridge is stuffed with free pop and juice and the entire workspace is really well laid out. it's a very welcoming environment. kinda makes me look at my current job and ask: "hey, why don't we have that?"
tan didn't have much of a problem letting it all sink in. after a while she was wanting to jump in and do new stuff just to see what it would look like. that's the kind of enthusiasm you like to see in the people you teach. after a while though, we got to talking about how nasty the code base of the company site is... and how much they paid for it.
i'm SO in the wrong line of work.
for the crappy site that this guy's done, he charged almost more money than i make in a year... BEFORE taxes. and now he wants more money (about the same as last time) to do an upgrade!
i remember when i was unemployed, that there were a lot of out of work geeks geeks around complaining that their competition was lowballing salaries just to get jobs. and while this was certainly the case (if you want a php/mysql developer for $22k/year, you're on crack there friend) there are obviously avenues to find better cash flow. this guy obviously found one, and from the looks of his work, i could write better code blindfolded with a 3-day hangover.
i like my free time (what little i have) but sometimes i think i should really be doing more contract work...
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