I think the only ones getting their day rate for work these days are the scumbag lawyers, unfortunately. On govt work they try to shave your profit and overhead figures on every project and are consolidating safety officer with superintendent on construction projects. Even NASA is doing this!
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Paul Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I'm 31 and have been on the list for about ten years with a number of > different email addresses. I'm based in Kent in the UK and spend most of my > time at a desk in London or on a train to and from London! When I joined > the list I was a trainee accountant fresh out of uni, engaged to my school > sweetheart and vaguely optimistic about the future and the world. I'm now a > qualified accountant who realised he made the wrong choice, so specialise in > the implementation and support of finance systems in general (SQL based > primarily) and especially complex OLAP databases (IBM TM1/COGNOS is the > biggest of these) and building the modelling for financial consolidation of > group accounts and forecasting. particularly in the Financial > Services sector, but will work for just about anyone who can afford my day > rate. I'm divorced from the aforementioned school sweetheart, with whom I > have two wonderful children, Holly (6) and James (5). Holly is a precocious > princess. James is autistic and the happiest child I've ever met. I'm > engaged to a wonderful woman I met a few years back, who is also an > accountant. We are expecting our first baby together next March, with a > wedding in August. Nothing like a bit of pressure then! In my spare time I > love to read (surely not a surprise to this list!), play a mediocre game of > chess, enjoy cooking. like to travel and have an interest in English > history, particularly the War of the Roses... I think that covers > everything.... > > Paul > From: Tim Hickey <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 16:14 > Subject: New "get to know you" question > > Who is everyone? For instance: age, location, job, family, outside > interests? > I am 30 years old, from Chicago, Illinois, United States. I am an outside > sales person to restaurants. I have been married for almost 5 years to my > wife, Carmen. She is an occupational therapist focusing on hands. We have no > kids, but just began trying. I play volleyball as much as possible, which is > 4-6 nights per week (until we have kids). I am an avid Bulls, Bears, Cubs, > and Blackhawks fan. > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
