#career (67 links)
- 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job stevepavlina.com
- Garrett Dimon / The Time is Now for Front-End Architects garrettdimon.com
Missed this first time round: "The web needs more front-end architects before poor implementations of front-end technology hobble the potential benefits of recent advances."
The list is not specific to any particular type of development position, but I tried to balance it between both the design/html/usability side of things and the back-end/database/programming side.
- pricing (27 October 2005, Interconnected) interconnected.org
Charge more if there's a lot of value being extracted, if the work is dull, and if there's risk involved; charge less if the work takes the company in good directions, if it's really interesting, and if it's for people we like.
- The Lazy Way to Success: Finding Your Calling lazyway.blogs.com
- gilest.org: Practical tips for freelancers gilest.org
Handy tips from Giles
- Garrett Dimon / About Going Solo garrettdimon.com
- An Artsy Fartsy Weblog: Top Ten Ways to handle Bad Clients sthig.typepad.com
If you are a freelance or small Web design firm, I have an uncomfortable question to ask you: are you thinking too small?
- What Should I Do With My Life? (by Jeremy Zawodny) jeremy.zawodny.com
- Hiring Technical People jrothman.com
Use the tips here to hire better, or find a new job.
- Subtraction: Get on My Good Side subtraction.com
a short, non-definitive list of things that have made interviews go well — for me