[rescue] cheap gps for time reference

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 05:17:47PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On July 5, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > That might as well be slave wages, Dave :/ Now I'm worried.
> > Isn't he the principle owner?
>   What?  Hell no.  I don't do that kind of work...I'm a technical guy.
> Tech stuff is *all* I do.  If I do something else, it's likely that
> I'm wasting my time...or worse yet, someone else's.

It is entirely possible to be a principle owner and still be the
technical guy.  Look at ID Software.  The managers there answer to one
programmer and two artists.  I suppose that even MS is this way now
that Bill Gates is just a visioneer instead of a manager (though he
still is on the board).
 
>   Besides, if I were, I'd be making even less.  The LAST person to make
> money in an entreprenurial situation is the owner.

Well, true.  I figured that the $3k a month might have been what you
had budgeted to live on until you took off.

How did it work out that you and other employees work in your house
with you being a principle owner?  It would take more than just stock
options to make me do that.

> > I make significantly less.
>   You're in school, man.

And yet, per hour I make significanly more than the majority of my
not-in-school friends (which is to say the vast majority of my
friends). And per month I also make more (except for the 8 months out
of the year that I spend working only part time) than most of these
said friends.  So many smart people making less than $3k per month is
obviously not that unusual, at least around here.
 
> >  I don't know what the chances of making
> > more would be when I graduate (I know a few smart people locally who
> > haven't been able to get jobs, and they are qualified sysadmins in
> > addition to being good at programming, while I've no experience as an
> > admin.  I know more less smart people without jobs, but they don't
> > count here), at least right away. 
> 
>   The whole industry has tanked as far as the job market goes.  This
> shouldn't be news.  I've got friends losing houses and cars left &
> right.  Just gotta find something to keep you going so we can all
> weather this storm.

Well, unfortunately, according the agreement, my current something
will be running out in 6 months.  And even if I did go to grad school,
there would be over 9 months after graduation till that started.

$GF's father seemed rather worried over my lack of definate plans for
after graduation the last I talked to him.  But I don't expect his
worrying to cause any problems.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd