On Jul 4, 7:13*pm, Michael Ash wrote:
In rec.aviation.student Mxsmanic wrote:

writes:

An excuse for failure right out of the box; what a surprise.

It's a possibility I've considered in depth many times in the past. *The
infrastructure obstacle is real, unfortunately.

Utter bull****. With a PC and an internet connection you have the means to
obtain everything you need to work a lot of well-paid jobs. There are
scads of good, free developer tools out there just waiting for you to
download and start using them to earn money.

But of course you'd rather have your grievances.

--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

Many of us have hired what I call 1099ers (to those not in the US,
Internal Rev, Service form 1099 is how payments to consultants or
contract workers are reported) without ever seeing them in person. We
simply agree on a work product -- usually intellectual property in the
form of a report-- and how to define when it's done. If there's a
skill set I don't have in house that's how the void is filled. What
has to happen, though, is people with unique 'skill sets' for lack of
a better word, have to make themselves known to prospective buyers.

I found it interesting to learn I had hired one such person who lived
in Germany -- it was only well into the contract I found that out.

Here's a thought experiment. Suppose someone would take a year's worth
of sim time -- oh, 700 or 800 hours -- and devote that time to
positioning themselves with a marketable skill set. Do you think they
could find themselves living comfortably anywhere for the following
years?

I thought the beverage of choice in France was wine, not whine.