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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
I actually was a developer for 9 years, but went back into sysadmin work because I kinda burned out on coding, so I don't do that work full time anymore, but I do like to help out my friend from time to time with the little things he needs. Plus, he helps me out in return by giving me some really cool cover art. So it's a good, friendly relationship.  |
I was kidding you,
of course. I
don't expect folks to work for free.
One of the big kvetches I have, over at my biz, is that trying to find reliable website folks--builders, maintainers, etc., --is like pulling hen's teeth. I don't understand WHY it is that way, but it is. I've been through, I dunno, 6? Six different people, all of whom claimed to be hard working, timely, etc., and they never are? WHY is it so hard to find reliable (and affordable) web folks? Especially in what are essentially plug-n-play systems, like Joomla, Wordpress, etc.? (I understood my problem a lot better about 7-8 years ago when I'd written my own site using ExpressionEngine. I probably deserved to overpay, at that point. But I have bloody Joomla now. Why
such a hassle?)
My current guy
will respond quickly--but
never reads what I give him, fully, so he skims over things where I've done the research, say, and tell him "use this feed to get that XML to do this other thing," and then he builds the whole bloody mess himself--and expects me to pay for the work he did because he was too lazy to read my entire set of instructions to him.
(sigh). It's never-ending.
Hitch