RE: FN-FORUM Designers - OT

date posted 21st January 2002 23:45

hehe

well I for one always need someone with Linux/Unix skills and normally
for a about 10 mins at a time coz I'm stuck or too busy to upgrade stuff
here and there om my servers :-)

Regards

David Raza

2D Creative Ltd
www.2dc.biz


-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
-> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Andy Kruger
-> Sent: 21 January 2002 22:52
-> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
-> Subject: FN-FORUM Designers
->
->
-> Hmmm... does it becone a bit of a worry when you start clasifying
-> people's skills in terms of User Friendly characters? :)
->
-> Most of the posts I've read on this list seem to indicate that there are
-> quite a number of freelance AJ type people about (please don't take
-> offence, by "AJ type people" I mean talented designers). Now I see
-> myself more of a Mike or Pitr type (System Admin/Programmer techie
-> type). So long as it's a Unix or Linux based solution, I can take a
-> client from having nothing to having a full Internet access
-> infrastructure with firewalls and a server farm (including building most
-> of the server machines), including the server-side code to pull web site
-> content from a database, but my site designs are plain ugly (or should
-> that just be "plain"?).
->
-> Until recently, I wasn't realy a freelancer as such, making use of
-> contracting agents to find short- to mid-term contracts sitting at
-> client sites doing Unix type stuff. That is basically a life of filling
-> staffing gaps while the client looks for a permie to do the job, which
-> has become rather difficult since many contractors have gone permanent
-> (IR35 and all that fun). So... I decided to have a look at freelancing
-> when my last client decided they didn't want to use contractors any
-> more.
->
-> Problem is, how does someone with my skill set get into the freelance
-> world? In the last three months, I've done a total of six days for one
-> client and THAT was purely because someone was calling around on the off
-> chance they may be able to find someone to call during their Unix guy's
-> week off. Fortunately they decided to ask me to build some servers for
-> them after the day of getting to know the machines they may call me
-> about, which gave me the other five days of work (they never actually
-> needed to call me during the week I was asked to cover). I'm no
-> marketing man, I simply have no idea how to find clients, especially as
-> most clients would only realy think of freelancers when they need web
-> design, not when they need someone to build and support servers for
-> them.
->
-> (And yes, I should take those Microsoft references off the web site
-> soon, my Microsoft guy went and found a "normal" job.)
->
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-> Andy Kruger - Precise Network Systems
-> [EMAIL REMOVED] http://www.preciseic.com/
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