Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-13 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Saturday, 2002-10-12 at 11:50:12 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Todd Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Over here, the barometer looks like: For what it's worth, here is the major Freelancer/Professional Services site in Germany: http://www.gulp.de/kb/tools/gulpometer.html If you want

Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Todd Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of > things on there like this: Over here, the barometer looks like: http://www.jobstats.co.uk/ And those residual 4000 are agents trolling for leads from CVs. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wiz

Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Steven Adams
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:42 pm, Todd Finney wrote: > Are the jobs on there really representative of what's going on out there, > or are they somehow skewed? > > Just curious. > > cheers, > Todd Take it from me, Todd, it is that bad. I'm fortunate in that I was able to make the move from co

Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Paul
--- Todd Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of > things on there like this: > - "we'll pay you when we have some money" > - $20-$30 an hour > - "Do all this, we'll give you $75." > I'm not *really* in the market

Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Ken Y. Clark
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Todd Finney wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:42:08 -0400 > From: Todd Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT: Are things really this bad? > > I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of >

OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Todd Finney
I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of things on there like this: - "we'll pay you when we have some money" - $20-$30 an hour - "Do all this, we'll give you $75." I'm not *really* in the market, but more work is always better. Are the jo