I am going to have to call bullshit on you here Sean. When you are doing intermittent contract work because that is all that is available and you have a family to feed, then that 500 can go to things to keep your family afloat when you are not working because you are forced to do bs contract work. Sorry if I don't buy the BS elitist attitude there.
This is in reference to a client that can't afford it anyway. Or is everyone just not worthy of their position because they choose linux because it is free? Please. -----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:58 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Shopping carts On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > I wouldn't say it's an objection to paying a few hundred dollars, it's an > inability to come up with the funds to do so for the little guy. I'm sorry, but if the "little guy" can't afford $200 or even $400 for some software that makes his job possible / easier, then he doesn't deserve to be in business. What on earth kind of living can someone be making from selling software services where a few hundred bucks can't be covered by their rate on a project? That's crazy talk. As Matt R and other have said: "thats peanuts". I feel the same when I hear people complain about how they "can't afford" to attend conferences. It's bullshit if you care about your career and actually make a living out of it! All the time I've been freelance (three occasions, up to five years a piece), I've set aside money for training / conferences as part of my career plan so that I stay current and marketable and I learn shit that makes me a better, more productive developer. Stuff like this is just the cost of doing business in this industry. Professionals invest in themselves. If someone is really living hand-to-mouth as a software developer and can't afford a few hundred dollars on software, then they need to go get a new career. Software pays well and if you can't make money at it... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334886 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
