[dba-Tech] Once and for all time: server backups

Hi Steve:

Why not go the contractor route. Businesses are much more likely to take on
a short-term contract and when you are finished you are gone... It is a lot
cheaper for them and they are happy...but they pay you a premium price for
the time you are there. 

If you get enough steady clients, you end up being paid a lot more than any
regular staff, work a lot less, you can specialize in the type of work you
like, get to do a lot more interesting jobs, no office politics to tolerate
and you get treated better than regular staff. The only downside is that you
have to keep you books and billing updated but after a few months you stop
noticing the inconvenience.

Jim
    

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:23 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Once and for all time: server backups

Rocky,

>> Are economic conditions up there still pretty moribund or are you
seeing signs of increased activity? <<

I'm not sure what to look for.  When I go to the local Walmart, the parking
lot seems as full as it ever was.  I haven't been to Barnes and Noble for a
while, so I can't comment on retail book sales.

I do know that the city of Neenah isn't going to get nearly the same level
of state shared revenue as it has in the past...but Neenah has always been
well-managed, in my opinion.  Certainly better than our sister city,
Menasha, which defaulted on a bond issue for its steam generating plant.

The number of new IT jobs that I can apply for each week seems to have been
steady, though I sort of expected a larger number of them with the new year.
 That hasn't happened.  I have to apply to a couple new places each week to
qualify for unemployment.  I don't apply for fast food jobs; just for jobs
that I'm at least marginally qualified for.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Rocky Smolin
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:

> Well, here's to your good health!
>
> Are economic conditions up there still pretty moribund or are you seeing
> signs of increased activity?
>
> R
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:51 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Once and for all time: server backups
>
> Rocky,
>
> >> The insurance thing sounds like a real high wire act. Doesn't Janet's
> cover the family? <<
>
> She may have gotten a 40% raise recently but she's only part-time.  No
> health insurance through her company.
>
> >> Maybe the House/Senate reconciliation of the health bill will leave
> the 'Medicare at 55' thing in. <<
>
> [Sigh!] I think you know my feelings on the national health insurance
> thing.
>
> >> "If I knew something substantive about Windows Server"  FAKE IT!!! I
> never
> took a job that I knew how to do.  And no one ever found out about it. :)
> <<
>
> Har!
>
> >> In the meantime can you pump your consulting?  I just got a new
> >> client
> by looking in Craig's list - saw 3-4 people looking for Access help -
> responded and I hooked one. <<
>
> Hmm.  Interesting idea.  I tried posting a Craigslist ad for myself to
> offer
> PC revitalization for a flat fee...got no takers after several weeks.  I
> hadn't thought about trolling for clients on it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Erbach
> Neenah, WI
>
>
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