Speaking of headhunters/consulting firms/etc, how many people here are/were
consultants, and how many liked it?

I've have a consulting firm that won't leave me alone, and the money that
they claim I would make is pretty impressive.  I've heard bad stories about
being a consultant though.  I don't wanna get stuck doing work at some
stuffy lawfirm for 6 months or anything like that.  

Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Lutgens [mailto:blutgens at sistina.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 10:20 AM
> To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] advice [OT]
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 06:55:30AM -0600, Eric Stanley wrote:
> >Here's a suggestion for the future.  Put a copyright notice on your
> >resume, something like
> >
> >	Copyright (C) 2000 John Q. Public.  All rights reserved.  No
> >		duplication or distribution permitted without 
> the author's
> >		permission.
> 
> I'd put "express written consent on a per distribution basis" 
> then they have
> to have a written letter from you saying "You may present my 
> resume to foo and
> bar"
> 
> >
> >That way if they do give it to someone without your permission, you
> >can hold the flame of copyright law to their feet to get them to back
> >off.
> >
> >I'm not sure whether this would work, but it may be worth a try.  Any
> >feedback?
> >
> >Eric
> >
> >On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:38:55AM -0600, John J. Trammell wrote:
> >> Hello LUGgers:
> >> 
> >> I'm a newbie in the job search arena, and could use some advice
> >> on how to avoid a certain situation in the future.
> >> 
> >> Say, hypothetically speaking, that you have a friend that just
> >> got a new job at company Foo via job-finding company Quux (rhymes
> >> with "sucks", as in "rat bastard fuckers die die die") Jobfinders
> >> Inc.
> >> 
> >> This friend encourages you to apply for another position that's
> >> open at Foo; you do this, and in addition you ask the boys at Quux
> >> to see if they can locate some position for you.
> >> 
> >> You find yourself fucked, because what does Quux do but send your
> >> resume off to Foo?  Now Foo wants to hire you, but Quux says that
> >> Foo owes them some sort of finder's fee, even though you have a
> >> contact of your own at Foo, and really didn't get anything from
> >> Quux.  Foo won't hire you because this fee is exorbitant, and
> >> why the hell should Quux get dime one anyhow?
> >> 
> >> So how do other people manage this situation?  My thought is that
> >> I should have made some agreement with Quux from the beginning that
> >> they had to have my permission to send my resume to Foo; once this
> >> was done, Foo was "theirs" and if they found a job there, they were
> >> entitled to the fee.  This would leave me free to search on my own
> >> at Bar and Baz, Inc.
> >> 
> >> Any other ways out of this?
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> J
> >> 
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