[AccessD] My Comments

Bill,

I have found there are many companies that value personal services, professional attitude, local knowledge and local language skills and an ability to be fast and flexible over any pure cost metric.  I never try to be the cheapest, and I never say I am the best (because there is no way I can honestly achieve either) but I can offer my skills and services in a way that provides excellent value for the client and allows me to make a decent enough income.  Given I have had some of my clients for over 10 years now it is an approach that seems to work, at least for me and them in this part of the world. 

Of course everyone's situation is different - I know our US and Euro friends are having a very hard time of it right now - The economy is Australia is still doing ok for most of us.  FWIIW, I have had plenty of roles over the years where my position has been outsourced to a 3rd party supplier from another country (usually somewhere in India or Asia). I don't get upset about it, hell, those folks need jobs and income too, and they have a family just like I do.  I just move on and play my strengths.  I sure can compete in ways and places that these organisations cannot.

There is also a bigger picture here.  Frankly the idea of an unstable India or Pakistan scares me.  Both have nuclear weapons and having a large and unhappy population who can't get jobs or feed their kids isn't something I want to see.

Cheers
Darryl.



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Benson
Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012 12:14 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] My Comments

>>, I am ... writing a tut that ... will elucidate the path that an 
>>Access
developer should take into [C Sharp] world



Arthur, I am willing to learn, but I don't know what I could develop in C Sharp that large clients are going to pay me for, or that their IT departments will consider me worth the risk to contract with, given their existing relationships and established DPMM beaurocracies. The client I see most often contracts mainly with large low cost country vendors, with most of the resources being "off-shore". Yes, those resources are hard to deal with, however they have integrated themselves very well with the Multiglom Corp. and they talk the language of "cheap" very well, which is all Multiglom wants to pay.

The software is not very good in my unqualified estimation, but no doubt there are surprises. I will never compete with these vendors, so shouldn't I just be sticking with Excel and Access, where I can get very close to the data that my clients are fighting with, building small and nimble systems?

I cannot possibly compete with hungry programmers in
India/China/Ireland/Afghanistan/YouNamitstan)
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