chrisclark1729

This is a question, but isn't it used fairly often in the finance industry?

I totally agree. Can't believe they're not protecting their cash cow.

I wouldn't say they're so much competing with myspace or last.fm as they're poised to dominate a wide open space hobbled by those two companies poor execution. Nonetheless, I effectively agree with danishkhan.

Excel 2010 :)

This looks pretty cool. I'm not a designer, so I don't know what's on the market already. But I have to say this is a simple (but real) problem for which you've provided an interesting solution.

The lack of content to be streamed, which has more to do with the studios than with Netflix.

I hear Costco has great deals on mattresses for around that price. I spent more than that because of the whole 1/3rd of your life argument.

Define what constitutes a finished product.

Helping people move.

Truth. As much as I love hip-hop, it's not great coding music because there are too many words which draw your focus away.

I used these guys: http://www.vgkids.com/

They were really nice people, on-time, quality printing and did some extra design work to get our design ready for t-shirts.

I'm sure it's best to gauge the employer, but unless commuting or meeting sessions are part of your offer I usually wouldn't start the clock until I've actually started working.

That's how I run things, maybe I'm too honest buy the win/win aspect of freelancing is that employer only pays for one specific thing and employee does one specific thing and thus commands higher rates.

I liked Sam's Learning Perl in 21 days, but I was new to both Perl and programming.

Creating config files for a universal report loader. Then hopefully deprecating the over 100 scripts which exist to do the same thing as the universal loader.

That seems rough. I'm actually going through a similar (albeit not as extreme) situation, which is why I'm at home on a Saturday night trying to generate leads for my freelance business.

Two major points from me:

First, you shouldn't get angry. You're there of your own volition and have to make the best of your situation. I know it's rough to hear, but getting angry will just waste your time and make it harder to be proactive about improving your situation. I need to remind myself of this constantly.

Second, I cannot attest to the legality of what's happening within your company. However, it would seem that if the founder is such a tyrant then many people would defect (clients as well as employees).

It seems like you could start a competitor business which serves the companies clients better than they are being served now. Who knows, any illegal behavior might nullify a non-compete clause (I am not a lawyer so please verify).

At any rate, best of luck. I do believe that businesses who don't value their employees pay for it in the long run so hopefully these things work out.

Short term, try reaching out to some people for freelance work. It's probably the best and quickest way to raise your income.

My girlfriend set up an informational interview for me in December 2007 with my future boss. I was not shy about saying I was willing to take a job, but wasn't pushing too hard or selling. We just had a straight conversation and by February 2008 I met some others within the company and started in March 2008.