Reading ginsterbusch's journal

Dear diary,

right now I'm in the proccess of searching a new job (full-time, permanent). I've been trying to freelance since about September 2007, but by now I've realized I cant make it with the very few vitamin C (as in "Connections") I've got. I also need to improve in self organization, which is the ultimate encounter when being self-employed and working totally on your own. Last but not least I'm not getting along well, the money I earn is - if at all - about 600 Euro per month.

A permanent job offers you a whole other range of possibilities, including definitly better payment while being able to waste away time by trying several other things than your regular "its meant to pay"-job. I've always held up you could learn much more while freelancing, but it's been probably everytime this way because I've always tended to pick out the wrong positions in the wrong companies :-/

I still dont know what my work time is worth in the "full-time permanent" working sector, but I've been offered project enlistments (6+ months) with rates like 50 euro / hour (excluding taxes). If you presume a hourly rate of 20 euro, doing realistically 6 hours of full work (assuming a regular 8 hour day), it'll be 2700 Euro regularly - and if I would work more, like 9 - 10 hours per day, while presumming 8 hours of full work as a given, it'd be 3600 Euro.

In my last permanent job I earned 2600 Euro per month, that'd be about 1500 euro with deductions (taxes and the like). So after all I've been rating myself correctly :)

At least it's good to know what you can except of a new job ;)
What I do except is this: Very good communication between the project managers and their subordinates, proper and punctual payed-out salary, a flat hierarchy, letting the employees decide by himself which operating system and environment they are going to use at their workplace (I'm used to Linux as development environment, esp. GNU/Debian and related distributions).

Also, there's this important concept called "not having to fight against wind mills" (if this is the correct transversion of "nicht gegen Windmühlen kämpfen müssen"), which would be in my case that I dont have to fight out why I'm not using table- and spacer-gif-based layout anymore. And of course why I propagate usability and accessability.

cu, w0lf.

Fuck off the 30 seconds posting limit!

This post was edited by ginsterbusch on Apr 09, 2008.

I read your post.

It made me want to say something. Not sure entirely what, but something other than I'm really sorry it didn't work.
I'm sure you've already gotten that kind of thing.
I don't want to add to that.

I just wanted to try to say something that would help somehow.
I hope you don't put your dreams away, or loose them.
They are good dreams.

I hope they end up comming true, so you can live the life you have always wanted to.