I Got Fired Today
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I LOVE firing people!! Its like a favorite hobby of mine!
Sucks for you, read WF. Learn. Apply. Bank. (then paypal me like $5000 for some ubercamp sessions)
Sucks for you, read WF. Learn. Apply. Bank. (then paypal me like $5000 for some ubercamp sessions)
I got fired once.
It sucked.
The market out there for programmers is tricky (at least around here); expect to lose jobs to people who claim to have 15 years .NET experience and have a couple dozen certificates for everything under the sun. Don't get discouraged when this happens, you wouldn't want to work there anyway.
I'm not saying they are all bad, but be careful if you decide to work with a recruiter. Some of them will jerk you around and sell your info.
It sucked.
The market out there for programmers is tricky (at least around here); expect to lose jobs to people who claim to have 15 years .NET experience and have a couple dozen certificates for everything under the sun. Don't get discouraged when this happens, you wouldn't want to work there anyway.
I'm not saying they are all bad, but be careful if you decide to work with a recruiter. Some of them will jerk you around and sell your info.
HarveyJ
He is - THE CACTUS!
If you were a good programmer, really, you shouldn't have too much to worry about.
There are always jobs for programmers, and more all the time. Unless you're at MIT's theoretical labs, code doesn't write it self.
However, in the meantime, as a coder, you should be able to come up with some rather nice shit that people in the online marketing world are into, and BAM you've already got a shitload of potential customers right here, and on other marketing forums, if you can right something decent.
Hell, go after the coveted "idiot" demographic, of people that think they can get rich selling shitty PLR ebooks. Write some sort of script or software that'll do something for them faster, better or cheaper than stuff that's already visibly out there.
One example I can think of is DLGuard. Here's a guy from Queensland that gets fired, and then simply makes a setup to prevent people tunneling into a site and getting at a download file directly. The people over on WarriorForum kiss this guy's arse and pay some pretty decent coin because he's protected their shitty ebooks from being directly downloadable... Something that they could have done if they weren't morons.
As much as we love to bag out a place like WarriorForums around here, there's some good money to be made, and they practically tell you how.
N.B.:: I'm not advocating the use of WarriorForum for anything other than a hunting ground for sales of services and/or products that these idiots could have gotten for themselves if they read a real book instead of buying ebooks off of each other.
There are always jobs for programmers, and more all the time. Unless you're at MIT's theoretical labs, code doesn't write it self.
However, in the meantime, as a coder, you should be able to come up with some rather nice shit that people in the online marketing world are into, and BAM you've already got a shitload of potential customers right here, and on other marketing forums, if you can right something decent.
Hell, go after the coveted "idiot" demographic, of people that think they can get rich selling shitty PLR ebooks. Write some sort of script or software that'll do something for them faster, better or cheaper than stuff that's already visibly out there.
One example I can think of is DLGuard. Here's a guy from Queensland that gets fired, and then simply makes a setup to prevent people tunneling into a site and getting at a download file directly. The people over on WarriorForum kiss this guy's arse and pay some pretty decent coin because he's protected their shitty ebooks from being directly downloadable... Something that they could have done if they weren't morons.
As much as we love to bag out a place like WarriorForums around here, there's some good money to be made, and they practically tell you how.
N.B.:: I'm not advocating the use of WarriorForum for anything other than a hunting ground for sales of services and/or products that these idiots could have gotten for themselves if they read a real book instead of buying ebooks off of each other.
My dad fired me.. twice.
Don't sweat it man. Just paypal me cash and all your worries will be gone!
Don't sweat it man. Just paypal me cash and all your worries will be gone!
Why paypal, you'll lose almost 75-150 in fees if he sent you 5,000. Could always use RevMoney Exchange instead and not lose any of the 5K :updown:
hehe *hides now*
"Think you have too many employees? Let's see how you do with half your staff on maternity leave!"
When I got laid off back in the first Dot Bust (2000-2001), I took a week off then started building email add collection pages like crazy. I haven't worked a job since. I do outsourced services now.
This might be the push you need to take that next step... UP.
This might be the push you need to take that next step... UP.
Make sure you get the contact info for all the people you work with who you can stand to be around for any length of time. Regularly touch bases with them, see what's going on. I have a bitch of a time working by myself, I always work better with a partner or someone who I can bounce ideas off of. Find someone who's interested in what you're interested in, cash in on it.
FYI, i started learning about affiliate marketing when i got laid off from my old Jan 07. Now i'm making 10X what i make at my current day job and i should be quitting any week now.
Take this time to do a lot of learning, but still look for a job just in case. Unemployment checks will only last for so long...
Outsourcing will come full circle back to the states eventually. At least in my experiences, most of the time the quality just isn't there. And paying them more doesn't help.
Beyond that, data security is a futile effort. Anything I send over there I expect to get sold dozens of times.
A few more good sized scandals where social numbers get leaked, and we may see some decent change.
Congratulations?
Take unemployment. You can just live off that for 6 months. If it's like it used to be you can get 50% of your gross. You don't have to pay FICA and income tax witholding is optional. Since you were being taxed at a higher rate, you shouldn't have any tax liability on your UE. So that's all net. I'm sure you were living below your means, so living off UE should be easy. If not, get a roommate or something.
Then you work on your website projects, affiliate marketing whatever. Time that to start making a profit around 6 months from now. When UE runs out, start pulling money out of your business. At that point you will be making 5-6X what your programming job paid and you will be turning down job offers.
Good luck.
Take unemployment. You can just live off that for 6 months. If it's like it used to be you can get 50% of your gross. You don't have to pay FICA and income tax witholding is optional. Since you were being taxed at a higher rate, you shouldn't have any tax liability on your UE. So that's all net. I'm sure you were living below your means, so living off UE should be easy. If not, get a roommate or something.
Then you work on your website projects, affiliate marketing whatever. Time that to start making a profit around 6 months from now. When UE runs out, start pulling money out of your business. At that point you will be making 5-6X what your programming job paid and you will be turning down job offers.
Good luck.
Funny thing about being fired it's either the worst day of your life or the very best day as it's the start to a new beginning.
Honestly being fired is the best thing that's ever happened to some of my friends. They got comfortable and in routine and almost died to new ideas and adventure. Getting fired made them change one way or another. Change is good embrace it.
Honestly being fired is the best thing that's ever happened to some of my friends. They got comfortable and in routine and almost died to new ideas and adventure. Getting fired made them change one way or another. Change is good embrace it.
That's bout the time I got laid off from my first tech job. Course I never related it to the "dot bust", but rather simply my employers doing something stupid as billing a government client 16-hour days.
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