On 2/15/07, Ryan Byrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Irrespective of your reasons for working, a job interview is a negotiation. How much money you end up working for largely depends on your actions during that exercise. If you want to be employed for peanuts in order to convince others that you definitely don't work for money, that's certainly a prerogative. Plus, it frees up money for the rest of us.
When I interviewed for my current job, I told my then-future employer that given my inexperience I would work for free for a couple of weeks until I learned what was going on. We had a good laugh, and when I told my wife she growled a little about needing to pay the bills, but I was serious. I learned long ago that the best way to learn something is to do it for free. This serves several purposes, not the least of which is convincing yourself that you really want to do it. There is nothing like not getting paid for your work to really determine if that is the work you really want to do. The knowledge that the better you learn the more likely you are to get paid and paid well is also there. -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
