>>>>> "William" == William R Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
William> Well, the way I see it there are the big names like Randal Schwartz, William> community colleges, and a few individuals like me. I haven't seen William> much else. <voice actor="Ian McDiarmid" movie="Return of the Jedi"> Everything is proceeding according to my plan... </voice> :-) There are certainly others out there, like TCPC. But perhaps you are missing the raft of training organizations (or training divisions) that produce non-Perl as well as Perl. I know: I'm up against them on bids all the time, if I even get the first call (which is rare). Most corporations these days have "training coordinators", who prefer to buy from "all in one" training outsourcing companies, rather than deal with boutique companies like Stonehenge. So I've worked hard to brand Stonehenge all over the place as if we were a big company. It seems to be working. I used to get calls all the time asking for "Randal to come do some training". Now, nearly all of our new customers just say "any Stonehenge instructor would be great, we've heard". Kudos to those on our team, but also it was a conscious decision to deemphasize me, and make *us* a company. As an individual, you probably won't have that ability. It's expensive. And so you're more likely to get hits from buddies of yours that know you and like you and can convince the training coordinator of their company to hire you as a contractor. So make a lot of friends: that's how I tried to do it in the early days, and luckily, I had a lot of friends. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
