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Nice to see you still about laserlight! Been busy the last few years myself but still PHPing like a crazy old dawg!
bunkermaster wrote:still PHPing like a crazy old dawg!
Woohoo, good to see you too!
I'm now getting paid by someone else to do PHP (and w/e else). No more billing! No more sweeping! No more hardware tickets!
Woot! I'm starting (again) my freelancing in august! I must be crazy (again)!
Nice to see y'all old timers still about
And I'm over 10 months into my first "real" programming job (having been on the QA side of things for a couple decades then a couple years of free-lancing (and being lousy at sales ).
Do you like it? I find myself planning to start a company (alone at first). At 39, people look at me like I'm a dinosaur in a tutu when I apply for developer jobs and they are not willing to pay for the experience. I mean, I started PHP in 1999 and coding generally in 1983. Worth nothing in France. So I decided to fly on my own at the end of august. I have the customers and I have my own projects!
Well, Bunkermaster ... my problem was that I was smart enough to fix things, write code, and personable enough to convince some people that I was worth paying.
But I knew nothing about marketing, customer retention (except the "being nice" and "fixing things" part), hiring, and about a million other things a (typically) successful business depends on having in order to be competitive.
(And, at 45, I have to laugh about the "dinosaur in a tutu" thing. If my boss were any younger, he'd probably think the same thing. But he has about 3 decades more than I do ;-)
Guess you too are familiar with the "I can't seriously consider putting you under the supervision of a project manager with 2 years experience... You'd eat him up" line then. What saddens me is that it will only get worse with time.
@ dalescop:
45? You young whipper-snapper.
been awhile guys/gals...
Indeed it has ... pretty much
How is Stolzy these days?