Re: A tale of duplicates

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:00:58 GMT
Message-ID: <_WT9d.210306$MQ5.191327@attbi_s52>

"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:O_qdndNMpYsdV_rcRVn-hA_at_comcast.com...

> I didn't get the contract. The broker said the client had called me "too
> theoretical". The broker thought that meant "too expensive." They didn't
> want a computer consultant. They wanted a temp coder.

I have a friend who has a nice saying to cover these sorts of cases. Whenever she realizes, in retrospect, that she's done something suboptimal, she says "You pay more when you're stupid."

Marshall Received on Sat Oct 09 2004 - 11:00:58 CDT