Can I ask how going completely independent will help?
I am completely independent and although work hasn't slowed for me yet (salary either) I am just an employee like everyone else. A contracting firm sounds interesting. What about a union were we only do programs and sell them to companies as a company. No custom program can be built without going through this "Union of Programmers." Also the "Union of Programmers" would not give up the rights to any program created and you could simply call the union when you get a gig and ask for a pair? Just a dream, I know that can't work in reality. Stede --- jhrothjr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], William > Pietri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > Also, this is pretty far from the topic of this > group. Although I'm > > personally interested, I don't think a large > portion of the 5000 > > subscribers of this list also feel that way. If > you (or others) would > > like to discuss international trade theory, I > think it would be better > > if we found another forum for it. > > > > William > > So let's see if we can bring this back > toward something that is arguably on > topic. > > Let's assume that for some indefinite > but fairly long amount of time there > won't be enough jobs in the US with > large corps that have sane management > policies for either the demand for > programming services, or for the programmers > that could supply that demand. > > So assuming you want to stay in the > industry, what do you do about it? > > 1. You could go completely independent. > > 2. You could get together with a number > of others and form a contracting firm. > > So to put this on topic: > > How do you apply XP to either of those > alternatives? > > John Roth > > > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
