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Old 03-10-2008, 07:03 PM  
Tempest
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Join Date: May 2004
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Originally Posted by Doctor Dre View Post
Problem is that people don't want to pay the right price for good programmers.

If a guy can earn 50-75k a year working for a compagny, he should make at least 150k working for himself...

Amateur programmers are under bidding the real ones, making it pointless for the good guys to do freelance.

You end up with a bunch of kids.
Exactly... Which is one of the reasons I rarely take on a contract job.. When you start out at $50+ an hour, 99% of the WMs out there run the other way and then come back whining about how they lost 1000s of dollars because some cheap programmer fucked them over...
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