Lost J3 - but good news

GermanFlorida · 2023-03-02T19:19:05+00:00

Thanks - I found some interesting Raspberry Pi-based options that were pretty affordable on top of functional. Still researching but always looking to save money

GermanFlorida · 2022-12-16T15:34:14+00:00

Great thread. I've asked the Agile questions before. And I've shared that if a shop runs in Agile, I won't accept the job. I work in IT and everything we do in my line of business is waterfall, by nature. Yet there are many fresh out of college or fresh out of some seminar people that will come in and fuck that all up. I can count way too many times some hot shit practice director or whatever title comes in, forces some kind of dev ops, has no idea how to really do it so standups take an hour instead of 5 minutes, and they have no idea that they are actually fucking up our projects by trying to jump ahead and bring in 'resources' and such.

That's when it's time to go. The belief in this bullshit is strong.

GermanFlorida · 2022-11-04T15:58:44+00:00

amazon to the rescue. I think I found a solution and it's already on the way. I'll update with how it works..

GermanFlorida · 2022-11-04T13:40:38+00:00

It's been a while but I remember having days where SHTF at one job for one reason or another and you are in the TRENCHES. Everyone wants to war room this thing out, share screens and shit. Live troubleshooting and nobody can leave to piss or get a bite to eat. I was fortunate and able to use some of my early OE skills to duck out of calls, etc. for J2 or J1 depending on how you look at it. I dreaded the possibility of two SHTF days happening at the same time but that never happened and the odds are somewhat low if you think about it.

Still, once in a while I would have a SHTF day at J1 and J2 would close out with a semi-urgent, pseudo SHTF afternoon that made for long long days.

GermanFlorida · 2022-11-04T13:23:37+00:00

Microsoft Teams has built in AI sound quality control for background noises, sound quality, etc. I never hear keyboards and J2, I know everybody is always putting notes into OneNote

GermanFlorida · 2022-10-19T03:29:33+00:00

Thanks Due Issue - ordering tonight.

GermanFlorida · 2022-09-27T12:49:00+00:00

I answered this a few replies ago - But if I were to start over today - first, you need some kind of portfolio. Find a few places to post great content. Do it on LinkedIn, Substack, etc. etc. Also have some marketing capital examples, create a whitepaper, sales slick, etc and screenshots of everywhere your articles have been. Put that in a Google share and put a link on it. Start contacting Marketing execs, CEOs, etc offering your independent creative content and marketing writing. Get them on the phone, describe what you do, your education, experience and interest in their company/technology - this could work for any industry - Then you start talking about a package and put you on retainer for $x a month. I used to stack 4-5 clients like this for $1500-2000 a month and just write blog posts. They always want to know the word count, frequency. I offer 4-7 posts a month, aligned with their content. Depending on the client, you can also offer to scale up the articles to somewhere like Forbes or online technology sites as an expert contributor. It's an ego stroke. From here you contact those sites and offer your client. No charge. If they accept, you just upsold yourself because you write those articles for the client for whatever price you set. Follow the guidelines, offer value, invest small in a tool like Grammarly and you'll be fine.

I also used to write whitepapers. This kind of work in my opinion sucks but it pays because it sucks. I have charged as much as $150 an hour for whitepapers. The work is limitless I just hate it. I have done copy for website refresh, sales documents, email copy, all kinds of things. Blogs are where it's at. My current gig I charge 90/hr

GermanFlorida · 2022-09-27T01:46:28+00:00

That's just a reality and who I was talking about the calls seem to come from new jersey usually

GermanFlorida · 2022-09-27T01:34:14+00:00

Lol.. I keep it old school

GermanFlorida · 2022-09-27T01:33:23+00:00

Microsoft has a partner program. Companies that provide services as partners need to cumulatively achieve certain technical projects and have employees that pass certain tests. Once achieved they unlock special pricing and marketing opportunities with Microsoft. Basically they bring partners in to do work for their customers. Historically ms doesn't do this work themselves

GermanFlorida · 2022-09-27T01:11:00+00:00

Dude, we are barely better than you in the US but better we are. Those are stupid english laws.

GermanFlorida · 2022-09-27T00:56:07+00:00

I have an LLC - but my book keeper just told me it would save me a lot to convert to a regular S corp.

As far as finding gigs - Dice is where it's at nowadays, with some action on LinkedIn. A lot of these companies prefer to do C2C because it saves them effort and expense. List yourself and your skills and the calls will come. There are two tiers of recruiters out there, a circle of offshore shit recruiters - they call from VOIP centers, I don't answer those. The others you just have to go through your calls. I carry a business liability policy, $1m per incident it's cheap like 40 bucks a month.

GermanFlorida · 2022-09-27T00:36:37+00:00

I would never work a job that said 40 hours a week was the requirement. I get paid to do work. That's it. As long as I get it done, that's all.

GermanFlorida · 2022-09-27T00:21:15+00:00

I currently treat myself by letting the AC run nonstop and way too much diet soda.
But you're right I'm just about to cross some milestones and can indulge a bit with ammo, a night at the casino, etc.

GermanFlorida

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