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Subject:Re: Turning down an offer you can't refuse From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:15:12 -0500
Elna Tymes wrote:
>
> Bruce Byfield wrote:
>
<snip> What you have to do is what we've been doing every time some
Today's Wonder
> offers us a dream job: pay attention to the reason you got into contracting in
> the first place. For us, it's the money, first and foremost. Other factors are
> secondary. We can't spend respect or exposure to new technology buying
> Christmas presents or trips to Hawaii. But folding green works just fine in
> that respect. And our experience is that Today's Wonder will become Tomorrow's
> Nightmare in due time, even with the most careful due diligence. People and
> markets change.
>
> Tempting as the offer may be, what's important to you? Keeping your family
> where it is? Lots of telecommuting? Constant variation in projects? People like
> nationally syndicated LA Times (and CBS computer specialist) Larry Magid have
> managed to stay independent and stay in Silicon Valley by becoming a tireless
> marketer and picking offers that are consistent with staying in the same
> geographic area. Most of us who have chosen to stay independent (that is, not
> an employee of anyone else's company) and stay in the same area have learned
> that there's a fair amount of marketing involved in order to do that. So you
> choose what's important and do what it takes to be true to that.
There's an even simpler rule. If I have to say "should I," the answer is
no!
--
Peter
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved
promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned,
by either suicide, a bag of gold,
or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.
Ernest Bramah (Kai Lung stories)
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