Page 5 of 7 FirstFirst ... 34567 LastLast
Results 41 to 50 of 63

Thread: Thinking of starting a small business IT consulting

  1. #41
    Senior Member CeeBee's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Posts
    1,677
    vCash
    1792
    Points
    141,471
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    141,471
    Donate
    Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb View Post
    That's the thing right? You have to prioritize what you want in life. Money is good, but I did my 15 years with a Fortune 250 company, and it really mostly sucked. I busted my ass, and my expertise was undervalued. I watched highly competent managers tossed to the curb while idiots and jerks were hired and promoted to senior management positions. If I sound cynical about Big Business in the U.S., that's because I am. So, I'll take the smaller paycheck if it means I don't have to give some corporate VP a blowjob.
    Your experience is more or less different from mine. I currently work for a multi-billion dollar "sandwich shop" with many levels of management, I can't say there has been a single day I dreaded going to work. There isn't much room for advancement until someone leaves (which doesn't happen too often), but good people are being appreciated. I see myself staying there for a very long time if things remain the same.
    Now my wife's story is different, she works for a big corporation where the East Coast has no idea what the West Coast is doing and viceversa (and they don't really care), and while she loves the environment , the company is managed by absolute retards who are incapable of realizing that a programmer isn't a machine that you can take from one project and assign to another and get even close to the same output as someone who has worked on that project for years, and it takes the work of 2 people in India plus one in US to do the same work that the single one in US would have done in the first place.

  2. #42
    Senior Member Mobile PC's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Location
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Posts
    526
    vCash
    501
    Points
    360,874
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    360,874
    Donate
    So,,,,,,are you the one that found the porn on Jared's computer??????

  3. #43
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2014
    Location
    All around you
    Posts
    400
    vCash
    500
    Points
    374,037
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    374,037
    Donate
    Quote Originally Posted by Mobile PC View Post
    So,,,,,,are you the one that found the porn on Jared's computer??????
    LOL
    When you're left out of the club, you know it. When you're in the club, you don't see what the problem is.

    I am Green-Eyed.

  4. #44
    Senior Member CeeBee's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Posts
    1,677
    vCash
    1792
    Points
    141,471
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    141,471
    Donate
    Quote Originally Posted by Mobile PC View Post
    So,,,,,,are you the one that found the porn on Jared's computer??????
    Ha.. the idiot could have easily gotten away but he just *had* to save his stash on a memory stick... Not sorry for him, but it did have an impact on the business.

  5. #45
    Senior Member Webhead's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Posts
    1,829
    vCash
    500
    Points
    680,119
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    680,119
    Donate
    LOL, good point. I have to really think hard about whether or not it's worth it to be having customers calling me 24/7 about their problems.

  6. #46
    Senior Member Tekboy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Posts
    323
    vCash
    500
    Points
    279,496
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    279,496
    Donate
    Hell hath no fury like a lawyer who can't access his email at 3:00AM.

  7. #47
    Senior Member Mobile PC's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Location
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Posts
    526
    vCash
    501
    Points
    360,874
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    360,874
    Donate
    Quote Originally Posted by Tekboy View Post
    Hell hath no fury like a lawyer who can't access his email at 3:00AM.
    All the attorneys I take care of insisted on my personal cell. Most understood that right now comes at a much higher rate...

  8. #48
    Senior Member Tekboy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Posts
    323
    vCash
    500
    Points
    279,496
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    279,496
    Donate
    Quote Originally Posted by Mobile PC View Post
    All the attorneys I take care of insisted on my personal cell. Most understood that right now comes at a much higher rate...
    Absolutely!

  9. #49
    Senior Member Webhead's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2014
    Posts
    1,829
    vCash
    500
    Points
    680,119
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    680,119
    Donate
    Well it looks like this is really happening. I mean, unless something changes things are moving right along. The guy who started the last two companies I worked for needed some help with his laptop. So he called me this morning and I spent about 5 minutes helping him and solved his problem. Then I thought that would be the end of the conversation and we would just hang up. But before I could hang up, he began giving me an education in starting a small business. He wants to help me get my business started. So he gave me a lot of stuff to think about and work on and when he comes back from his trip to India, he is going to contact me again and go over more stuff. Then he's going to connect me with a bunch of people he knows who need help. Various small businesses and individuals who have IT needs.

    So now I'm taking what he said and reading through this and trying to get this going.

  10. #50
    Senior Member slgrieb's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2014
    Location
    Texas Panhandle
    Posts
    2,647
    vCash
    800
    Points
    578,550
    Bank
    0
    Total Points
    578,550
    Donate
    Quote Originally Posted by Webhead View Post
    Well it looks like this is really happening. I mean, unless something changes things are moving right along. The guy who started the last two companies I worked for needed some help with his laptop. So he called me this morning and I spent about 5 minutes helping him and solved his problem. Then I thought that would be the end of the conversation and we would just hang up. But before I could hang up, he began giving me an education in starting a small business. He wants to help me get my business started. So he gave me a lot of stuff to think about and work on and when he comes back from his trip to India, he is going to contact me again and go over more stuff. Then he's going to connect me with a bunch of people he knows who need help. Various small businesses and individuals who have IT needs.

    So now I'm taking what he said and reading through this and trying to get this going.
    Congratulations! I'm sure you can make it work.
    Yes, Mr. Death... I'll play you a game! But not CHESS !!! BAH... FOOEY! My game is...
    WIFFLEBALL!

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •