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@Bitwise thanks bro! Mostly linkedin and angelist but I also use indeed from time to time. I would say that my current job helps a lot since it is an enterprise level position for a local university. Before I would really struggle with contracts, but I have noticed that having that has made me more "valuable" inside the job hunt area. Locally speaking, I am privileged in that there are not that many developers, and those that exist can't do web devel with all the bells and whistles. I also have backup plans, if for whatever reason my dptmnt gets canned at school then I can go ahead and do stuff for my previous employeer. One of the owners of a local import export company has kept in touch and wants me to revamp their entire system which he knows is old school(delphi version 7 and asp classic man....CLASSIC!!) because my previous boss will not bother to learn anything new. The digits are high, but I am still not comfortable with it.
Well thus far is a bunch of rails small jobs. Funny enough this week I managed to get a bunch of php contracts "with the possibility to extend for larger contracts"
I am not really interested in long term contracts, but being that most developers that I see hired for small php jobs are not used to the patterns of development used for modern php and that i bring in a lot of my own stuff for it I know that I will be maintaining them for the long run.
So good stuff. Lets see how the week pans out. Getting really excited. Even tho I see more horrors in php than even on JS or ASP.NET or Java I still really love all languages that I have used. And normally I work like a mechanic. In which I bill by the hour(i am an expensice hooker...I mean developer) and finish everything as fast as possible to let me lazy around the house. So for example, if something takes 10 hours I will do it i 5 or less and charge all 10 hours, or I would charge per build(custom login and registration that kind of deal) and yeah. Pretty basic.
Good shit man!
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aww yii
php is my bae
so chash my variables have $ signs