From: Jonathan Guthrie 

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:51:50PM -0500, Bob Stout wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2004, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:

> > > Although Jon is currently contracting, the environment in which he
> > > currently works is very much that of a corporate programmer.

> > FYI:  Your information was out of date.  After doing 650 hours of
> > contract-to-perm, my start date was last September 6.  I get salary,
> > benefits, and everything, now.

> I'm jealous! ;-) Everything went so well at Pathfinder that they declared
> the project complete even before the 2nd field tests. Unfortunately, their
> budgets are set up for lots of contractors and minimal staff. :-(

All the hiring done here is contract-to-perm.  It's how the agency gets their cut.

As it happens, I foresee some developer hiring here, in the middle term,
especially if  happens with   The major barrier to success has been, if not
exactly removed, then at least dealt with.  At least I don't have to worry
about setting up Visual SlickEdit any more, and the software management now
in place seems to know what they're doing and the first couple of projects
they've managed have worked out well so it looks like they've got some
credibility to burn.
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Jonathan Guthrie (jguthrie{at}brokersys.com) Sto pro veritate

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