What's wrong with the market?

[Matt Luettgen]

Why go through all that work when sologig.com exists?

ML

--- Michael <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu> wrote:
> I could do the site but I think an actual company
> would be better as a lot
> of companies don't feel comfortable dealing with
> individuals or small
> consultants or simply don't know that they want to
> look for someone to
> take care of their IT needs. You have to be more
> aggressive in todays
> economy.
> 
> 
> I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute
> of it.
> 
> ;):):-):):-):):-)8')
> Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
> http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 KRFinch at dstsystems.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> > Having worked for a small consulting company in
> the past that got run out
> > of business, I wholeheartedly agree.  I remember
> everyone working like
> > crazy to drum up enough business keep everyone's
> jobs, and there was just
> > not quite enough work to keep us going.  If there
> were some sort of
> > community forum out there we could have tapped
> into to off-load some of our
> > excess programming and IT capacity, I might still
> be working there.
> >
> > The only problem is that every time that I have
> seen someone start up that
> > type of forum, they do so with the sole intention
> of making a profit.  They
> > want fees to post jobs, fees to look at jobs, and
> fees to take jobs.  It
> > ends up being cheaper for companies to use
> head-hunters, the local
> > newspaper or the yellow pages to find consultants,
> so that's what they do.
> >
> > IMHO, the only way a forum like you describe could
> be successful is if the
> > person organizing it had no intention of ever
> seeing any sort of financial
> > rewards for doing it.  With profit out of the
> picture, I think it would
> > make for a much more level playing field.  The
> side effect of free
> > postings, however, is that every MLM/Spam/Pr0n
> idiot will start making
> > postings to the site in hopes of gaining more
> dupes to line his pockets.
> > Hence, the site would have to be heavily
> moderated.
> >
> > So, all we need is to find a philanthropist with a
> webserver and a lot of
> > free time on his hands to moderate a site so other
> people can find work.  I
> > think that's only going to happen if you have some
> branch of the government
> > do it, because I don't know too many independently
> wealthy people that want
> > to waste their days deleting Spam for the greater
> good.  The other option,
> > of course, is to have a group take over the
> moderation in shifts, or work
> > out some sort of user moderation to help filter
> out the chaff...
> >
> > My $0.0195, rounded up.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kevin Finch
> > Network Administrator
> > DST Systems, Inc.
> > 816/435-6039
> > krfinch at dstsystems.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >                     Michael
> >                     <mogmios at mlug.missouri       
> To:     Derric Goodwin
> <Derric.E.Goodwin at mail.sprint.com>
> >                     .edu>                        
> cc:     kclug at kclug.org
> >                     Sent by:                     
> Subject:     Re: What's wrong with the market?
> >                     owner-kclug at marauder.i
> >                     lliana.net
> >
> >
> >                     06/07/2002 05:11 PM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > What we need is some sort of organization that
> lets us pool our efforts so
> > we can offer clients more options than any one of
> us alone could offer and
> > also make some collective effort to find new
> clients. Everyone needs IT.
> > It's just a matter of finding out what they need
> and delivering it. Sort
> > of a Co-Op agency/consultancy. It seems to me IT
> is still doing well but
> > most of the work is going to big corporate IT
> shops rather than us little
> > guys.
> >
> >
> > I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every
> minute of it.
> >
> > ;):):-):):-):):-)8')
> > Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
> > http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/
> >
> > On 7 Jun 2002, Derric Goodwin wrote:
> >
> > >  The job market here in KC is terrible now for
> IT folks.
> > > I recently moved from Silicon Valley (few months
> ago) to KC because the
> > > job market out there was just plain ridiculous.
> I was sending 6 to 10
> > > resumes a day after I was laid off for weeks...
> > >
> > >  There were many jobs being posted but the HR
> folks were being swamped
> > > with literally thousands of replies to each job
> posting.
> > >
> > > I am just now starting to get e-mails now from
> my Monster account (now
> > > that I don't need it...lol).
> > >
> > > It does look like jobs are picking up on the
> west coast. Will probably
> > > take a long time to trickle back to us in KC...
> > >
> > >
> > > Derric Goodwin
> > >
> > >
> > >
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