>>>I've also been *really* selective in how - and with whom - I spend my time.
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>It's nice to be able to do that, isn't it?
>A long-time client of ours recently made some personnel changes- for the worse from my perspective- and what was heaven is now... not heaven.
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>That's a no-win situation, I've found.
>Telling someone who is worth fifty times what I'm worth how to run his business is not only ludicrous, but telling that owner that he hired a dummy is guaranteed to annoy him.
>Staying with the dummy is even worse.
>Like you, I'm selective.
>My experience has been that if you work with smart people, you'll tend to do smart things and if work with dummies sooner or later you'll do dumb things.
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>I'll give them a little more time and then if things don't change dramatically it's time to move on.

This DJI gig has really opened by eyes to the world of remote IT work. I think more and more that is becoming a viable option. Glad to have this one on my resume. It is a big world out there and when there is no geographic limitation that opens up a pretty big potential customer base. I think some headhunters even specialize in it. I'm keeping a pretty close eye on what skill sets are most in demand in that world ( ASP MVC3 looks promising and always good to know the jscript etc that goes with that. ) I'm taking EPS's class on the Code Magazine MVC framework at the end of May just to get some more info and am burning up Pluralsight. Would really like it if the next gig included a lot of EF and WPF. Given the chance I'd like to do an enterpise project in Ideablade Devforce.

Dow Jones is being swallowed by S&P ( 75-25 between CME/DJI and McGrawHill/S&P ) SPI is a java/oracle shop. Eventually DJI will be run there on those platforms and that will mean it is time to move on. Meanwhile there is lots to in the transition.

The only thing I know for sure is I'll never do more than visit an office and I really like this remote stuff.

Everything else I can be pretty flexible about. ( well, everything except for my rate <bg> )