Hi Craig, One thing to consider is that rates are not the only part of your business that you can change to stay competitive and bring in work. In a recession, it's possible to position yourself to take advantage of the struggling market. The same companies that are cutting back on employees (who should never have been hired in the first place) are starting to look for small, tight, focused individuals/teams of developers to solve their problems instead of taking on the costly burden of internal development. $30,000 doesn't get very far internally, but that's a month of work at competitive rates for a Rails developer...and you can do a hell of a lot in a month using the tools we've all invested in.
Cheers, Nathan de Vries On 16/03/2009, at 3:15 PM, Craig Ambrose wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm not sure if anyone else is feeling like business is a little > different to what it was a couple of years ago. I'm a bit concerned > about it, and I've decided to drop my rates fairly dramatically. I'd > be interested to hear what others are doing. More on my thoughts here: > > http://blog.craigambrose.com/past/2009/3/16/keeping_it_real/ > > cheers, > > Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
