[AccessD] my situation....

Mark can u screen share and demo that app (the excel ordering one)?

Email me offlist. Also make sure you join us on Excel-L we need dudes like
you with quality excel app developer experiences.
On Feb 28, 2013 9:17 PM, "Mark Simms" <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote:

> I just want to let everyone know that I've made most of my hard (Very Hard)
> earned income by doing Excel VBA
> Work over the past 2 years.
> I've done complex, multi-workbook, multi-source automation projects that
> integrated data from disparate sources.
> I built a huge optimization model that was driven by a 3rd party linear
> programming optimizer written in C++.
> I recently built a supply chain management tool that integrates with a
> specialized ERP/CRM application built specifically for chemical
> distributors. The tool is a completely menu-driven app written for Excel
> 2010 and the user never needs to touch one worksheet or one
> cell....everything is form or menu-driven. It tells them what-to-buy and
> when-to-buy it....a complex optimal order quantity model that is completely
> integrated and automated. All they do is push some buttons...and filter the
> results. I even created a complex piece of code to remember their filter
> settings...a non-trivial task when filters are based on icons or color.
>
> After reviewing the thousands of pages of design notes I developed over the
> past 5 years, and then looking at this work relative to the people who were
> salaried at the companies I contracted at...
> I'd say I did about 5 TIMES the work of any of one those employees....for
> no
> benefits, no healthcare, nothing.
> And moreover, it was about 10-20 times the work of any of the managers,
> principals or VP's at these organizations.
> One manager I encountered....worked for Comcast...and never came to work.
> Over the 3 months I worked for him, I saw him 2 times. TWICE in 3 months
> !!!
> And he was paid handsomely with great benefits.
>
> I recently confirmed the desperate nature of this job market in IT
> contracting:
> A bid for a small 6 month contract at a "nobody" firm had me facing a list
> of 84 competitors.
> 84 !! Again, no bennies, no healthcare.
>
> I think my days in this business are rapidly coming to a close.
> Interestingly, I am now bidding on an Access project that likely will be my
> last contract.
> I just reviewed the app this evening.
> It's to do the complex payroll app for a crane operations company that has
> union workers...with multiple skills, rates, and locations.
>
> A grisly discovery from reviewing the data: some of these union workers are
> making more per hour than I am....plus they get benefits....and they have
> no
> formal college education either.
>
>
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