On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:30 pm, Paul Robinson wrote: > Not helped of course by the fact day rates have collapsed in the last year > because there now seem to be *many* more people claiming to be Rails experts > compared to last year. It's starting to feel a bit like the PHP market - lots > of people who can do "stuff", but not that many like those of us who have > been sipping the BDD kool-aid for a couple of years and who are overlooked or > undervalued in terms of day rate. I was really hoping Rails would never get > like the PHP market. C'est la vie. Time to go and find another niche I > think...
It was probably inevitable. But the agencies make it much worse, by, like you say, removing your ability to describe your value to the client. There's a bigger problem here, that the network of developers is not linked very well with the network of people who want our services. Don't fancy tackling that as a side project do you? ;) Ash -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
