Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] PHP programmer opening (phpWalter)

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On Wed, May 23, 2007 5:44 pm, Keith Casey wrote:
> On 5/23/07, phpWalter <php...@to...> wrote:
>> I should not have "ranted' like that. It was out of place.
>> This is not the venue to share my frustration at the state of
>> affairs of
>> the economy and the development community at large.
>
> The odd thing is that here on the DC PHP list - I'm the lead mod - we
> had a similar explosion last week.  It started from a single recruiter
> posting a silly ad, a few people ranted, and it grew from there.
>
> I think we - the community as a whole - is in this position where
> those of us who went through the 2000-2003 timeframe trying to
> get/keep a job are a bit burned, some of the companies looking to hire
> are a bit clueless, and recruiters step in the middle.  Some of them
> are clueless, some of them aren't and just have clueless clients...
> but it's not good for anyone involved.

I personally have given up on Recruiters, for my own personal purposes.

I have no objection to posting their Job Offers, but I'm not likely to
ever work with one again...

I've never had a good experience with a recruiter, personally, in my
half-dozen or so interactions.

I have no doubt that somewhere out there is a good one, but I'm not
willing to spend any more time trying to figure out the good from the
bad, when they all sound good at first.

As far as pricing and the dot-boom, dot-bomb, and dot-boom 2.0 goes,
I'd have to say that prices are going up steadily at this point, and
certainly there seems to be a lot more work.

I daresay it's even more SENSIBLE work available than in the heyday of
dot-boom -- Though the ridiculous no-chance-of-long-term-success glut
of the dot-boom added in changes that. But I'd take less work with
better chances of success over the IPO VC zero to sixty to zero glut
any day.

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