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Afternoon All
Not been about for a bit as things have gone a little crazy here at my end, especially on the freelancing front.
After spending a short period out of work I did a couple of private jobs to tide me over which has unexpectedly generated a lot of future work, some of it on a large scale. I've now landed a new job for a web development agency in Banbury which has reduced the amount of free time I have for private work but I don't want to turn any of it down, as obviously there's a lot of money to be made.
I've got 2 large jobs coming up in the next couple of months. One is an e-commerce fashion store for a private designer in Oxfordshire, the other is on the scale of e-Bay with a similar process. DOn;t want to give too much away at the moment...
As most of you know, my back end skills are fairly limited, so what I'm looking for is potential coders (PHP, MySQL) with experience of secure ordering, personalisation, account management (B2B, CRM and CMS) and e-commerce who are looking to expand their portfolios with some high profile work.
Obviously there is money involved, potentially quite a lot for the right people, but my main aim is to give those of you out there a chance to demonstrate your skills in a proper commercial environment.
If any one is intersted, either drop a reply in here or email me at:
tyla [at] digital-prozac .co.uk
Not been about for a bit as things have gone a little crazy here at my end, especially on the freelancing front.
After spending a short period out of work I did a couple of private jobs to tide me over which has unexpectedly generated a lot of future work, some of it on a large scale. I've now landed a new job for a web development agency in Banbury which has reduced the amount of free time I have for private work but I don't want to turn any of it down, as obviously there's a lot of money to be made.
I've got 2 large jobs coming up in the next couple of months. One is an e-commerce fashion store for a private designer in Oxfordshire, the other is on the scale of e-Bay with a similar process. DOn;t want to give too much away at the moment...
As most of you know, my back end skills are fairly limited, so what I'm looking for is potential coders (PHP, MySQL) with experience of secure ordering, personalisation, account management (B2B, CRM and CMS) and e-commerce who are looking to expand their portfolios with some high profile work.
Obviously there is money involved, potentially quite a lot for the right people, but my main aim is to give those of you out there a chance to demonstrate your skills in a proper commercial environment.
If any one is intersted, either drop a reply in here or email me at:
tyla [at] digital-prozac .co.uk
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Lol, I wasn't referring to you Alan, but hey! I was having a bad moment earlier - just finished a week of exams, and now having to catch up on 2 weeks of backlog....apologies.
Nimco wrote:
> And one who has great trouble with spelling! Reading through the pos**ts
> is painful due to the number of spelling mis**takes - please take a bit
> more care...
I rely too much on spell checkers for my own good sometimes. Had many an amusing incident with e-mails ending in retards ins**tead of regards and had one incident jus**t before I left my las**t job where I told a client to "sh*t down" their e-mail client ins**tead of "shut down"!;) Should really get into the habit of writing pos**ts in Word or something and checking the spelling firs**t before pos**ting. Alternatively, I could try typing slower.
Will never have a future in copy writing or editing. Hard to beleive I managed a B in english! Thank God I don't write my own content...
BTW, cheers to those of you who managed to avoid getting involved in the typical forum flaming of Special Reserve and those of you who contacted me by e-mail. Will be in touch with all those shortly with more information as I finalise details at this end. Have 2 jobs coming in sometime in February, one for an Es**tate Agents and another for a clothing designer/s**tore.
> And one who has great trouble with spelling! Reading through the pos**ts
> is painful due to the number of spelling mis**takes - please take a bit
> more care...
I rely too much on spell checkers for my own good sometimes. Had many an amusing incident with e-mails ending in retards ins**tead of regards and had one incident jus**t before I left my las**t job where I told a client to "sh*t down" their e-mail client ins**tead of "shut down"!;) Should really get into the habit of writing pos**ts in Word or something and checking the spelling firs**t before pos**ting. Alternatively, I could try typing slower.
Will never have a future in copy writing or editing. Hard to beleive I managed a B in english! Thank God I don't write my own content...
BTW, cheers to those of you who managed to avoid getting involved in the typical forum flaming of Special Reserve and those of you who contacted me by e-mail. Will be in touch with all those shortly with more information as I finalise details at this end. Have 2 jobs coming in sometime in February, one for an Es**tate Agents and another for a clothing designer/s**tore.
Mac mini wrote:
> How do you mean? as you can see, ebay can handles millions of
> transactions. How excatly can you have one on a greater scale, and
> whatever for?
I've worked on systems for the worlds largest bank that had a level of complexity that dwarfs ebay and deals with more money in a minute that ebay make in a year.
Seriously, scale isn't always about the number of users or the number of transactions it can handle in a second, alot of intranet systems I've worked on are far more complicated than ebay. Plenty enough public sites that are bigger than ebay in that respect too. But I suspect you know this already and just felt like being picky. :)
> How do you mean? as you can see, ebay can handles millions of
> transactions. How excatly can you have one on a greater scale, and
> whatever for?
Seriously, scale isn't always about the number of users or the number of transactions it can handle in a second, alot of intranet systems I've worked on are far more complicated than ebay. Plenty enough public sites that are bigger than ebay in that respect too. But I suspect you know this already and just felt like being picky. :)
Tyla wrote:
> Last year I made £24k in just my day to day job and £22k
> in freelance work (£46k Gross) This year I am to make
> £24k in day to day job and £50k in freelance (£74k
> Gross, the IR are gonna love me). In that repect, I'd rather pay less
> taxes...
In October Tyla wrote:
"My basic is £25k + Freelancing which makes me anywhere between £2000 / year to £10,000/year on top"
[URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/display_messages.php?threadid=112292&forumid=206[/URL]
In the above thread you also showed you have no idea of the current income tax situation.
Hmmm...
> Last year I made £24k in just my day to day job and £22k
> in freelance work (£46k Gross) This year I am to make
> £24k in day to day job and £50k in freelance (£74k
> Gross, the IR are gonna love me). In that repect, I'd rather pay less
> taxes...
In October Tyla wrote:
"My basic is £25k + Freelancing which makes me anywhere between £2000 / year to £10,000/year on top"
[URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/display_messages.php?threadid=112292&forumid=206[/URL]
In the above thread you also showed you have no idea of the current income tax situation.
Hmmm...
And one who has great trouble with spelling! Reading through the posts is painful due to the number of spelling mistakes - please take a bit more care...
Who is mac mini? He seems like an ass.
Domaye wrote:
> Thy're giving some rookies a chance to
> get involved in the biznass. And they dont have enough time to do all
> the jobs.
It's simple business sense. If I employ someone, I have various legal things I have to stick to, plus taxes etc etc, which in all honesty, is just too much hassle. If I sub contract it, there's none of that involved other than project management, a purchase order and the exchange of goods/money.
I get to bring in more work/money and joe bloggs makes a stack of cash (whether they declare that or not is down to them). Everyone wins all round.
Last year I made £24k in just my day to day job and £22k in freelance work (£46k Gross) This year I am to make £24k in day to day job and £50k in freelance (£74k Gross, the IR are gonna love me). In that repect, I'd rather pay less taxes, still make a tidy sum and let someone else benifit financially from the work too.
And in response to learning more... I don't beleive in the term "Jack of all master of none", The work tends to be of lower quality than using people who are masters in certain areas.
> Thy're giving some rookies a chance to
> get involved in the biznass. And they dont have enough time to do all
> the jobs.
It's simple business sense. If I employ someone, I have various legal things I have to stick to, plus taxes etc etc, which in all honesty, is just too much hassle. If I sub contract it, there's none of that involved other than project management, a purchase order and the exchange of goods/money.
I get to bring in more work/money and joe bloggs makes a stack of cash (whether they declare that or not is down to them). Everyone wins all round.
Last year I made £24k in just my day to day job and £22k in freelance work (£46k Gross) This year I am to make £24k in day to day job and £50k in freelance (£74k Gross, the IR are gonna love me). In that repect, I'd rather pay less taxes, still make a tidy sum and let someone else benifit financially from the work too.
And in response to learning more... I don't beleive in the term "Jack of all master of none", The work tends to be of lower quality than using people who are masters in certain areas.
Domaye wrote:
> arent you listening to the? Thy're giving some rookies a chance to
> get involved in the biznass. And they dont have enough time to do all
> the jobs. Now if they were to learn more (which i bet they dont need
> to) that would take up even moe time.
> jeez
yes well done. If YOU were reading, I said that people shouldn't be hired on content they can't already confidently achieve. Another words, Tyla in this case wasn't the right person for the job, though as lead he can get away with the specialisations to an extent. THough as lead myself, often the newbies come for advice, as that's what they're there for.
> lol sorry cant help you with the sites im a lamer :P
agreed, judging by the content of your .tk "site"!
> arent you listening to the? Thy're giving some rookies a chance to
> get involved in the biznass. And they dont have enough time to do all
> the jobs. Now if they were to learn more (which i bet they dont need
> to) that would take up even moe time.
> jeez
yes well done. If YOU were reading, I said that people shouldn't be hired on content they can't already confidently achieve. Another words, Tyla in this case wasn't the right person for the job, though as lead he can get away with the specialisations to an extent. THough as lead myself, often the newbies come for advice, as that's what they're there for.
> lol sorry cant help you with the sites im a lamer :P
agreed, judging by the content of your .tk "site"!
Tyla wrote:
> The eventual aim is a long term partnership with someone. I've got
> another designer at last, who's work I like and who works very well
> and I already have a C#/.NET programmer who I've worked with for the
> last 5 years, I'm just lacking in people more focused on the open
> source end.
>
Ah right, so not actually a 50-50 profit then. The .net programmer will tkae a hefty share, and no doubt you as the project "lead" will swipe a hefty sum as well.
Sounds interesting I guess for the money, I would ocnsider it if I was unemployed. But currently finishing off the last few days of a holiday at home before I restart; I work for a pretty big agency myself, and the hours can be hectic.
> Doing it this way enables me to focus more on what I do best as well
> as securing more work, project management and all the nitty gritty
> stuff like chasing clients etc. (There's also the joys of tax returns
> etc)
Yeah, who would have thought thats actually more enjoyable once you done a few years of just coding. You still get to be a major part of the scene, but get to tell of your workers for not meeting deadlines instead of being told off yourself.
>
> I already work 48+ hours a week (6am - 8pm inc travel) for one design
> agency and with a 2 year old at home, I'd like to have some time to
> spend with him instead of being glued to a PC 24/7 (I'm sure the wife
> would appreciate it too!;).
That's fair enough. The travelling takes up a significant time, think I've gown used to the boredom of trains though.
>
> I've worked on project on a greater scale of e-bay previously.
How do you mean? as you can see, ebay can handles millions of transactions. How excatly can you have one on a greater scale, and whatever for?
> The eventual aim is a long term partnership with someone. I've got
> another designer at last, who's work I like and who works very well
> and I already have a C#/.NET programmer who I've worked with for the
> last 5 years, I'm just lacking in people more focused on the open
> source end.
>
Ah right, so not actually a 50-50 profit then. The .net programmer will tkae a hefty share, and no doubt you as the project "lead" will swipe a hefty sum as well.
Sounds interesting I guess for the money, I would ocnsider it if I was unemployed. But currently finishing off the last few days of a holiday at home before I restart; I work for a pretty big agency myself, and the hours can be hectic.
> Doing it this way enables me to focus more on what I do best as well
> as securing more work, project management and all the nitty gritty
> stuff like chasing clients etc. (There's also the joys of tax returns
> etc)
Yeah, who would have thought thats actually more enjoyable once you done a few years of just coding. You still get to be a major part of the scene, but get to tell of your workers for not meeting deadlines instead of being told off yourself.
>
> I already work 48+ hours a week (6am - 8pm inc travel) for one design
> agency and with a 2 year old at home, I'd like to have some time to
> spend with him instead of being glued to a PC 24/7 (I'm sure the wife
> would appreciate it too!;).
That's fair enough. The travelling takes up a significant time, think I've gown used to the boredom of trains though.
>
> I've worked on project on a greater scale of e-bay previously.
How do you mean? as you can see, ebay can handles millions of transactions. How excatly can you have one on a greater scale, and whatever for?
Mac mini wrote:
>
> who already has the knowledge to carry out the job competently.
>
> Having said that, with 7 years experience, you know that learning new
> things are part of the job; and you have two months before you
> actually start, plus the project time, so you can actually learn
> yourself.
arent you listening to the? Thy're giving some rookies a chance to get involved in the biznass. And they dont have enough time to do all the jobs. Now if they were to learn more (which i bet they dont need to) that would take up even moe time.
jeez
lol sorry cant help you with the sites im a lamer :P
>
> who already has the knowledge to carry out the job competently.
>
> Having said that, with 7 years experience, you know that learning new
> things are part of the job; and you have two months before you
> actually start, plus the project time, so you can actually learn
> yourself.
arent you listening to the? Thy're giving some rookies a chance to get involved in the biznass. And they dont have enough time to do all the jobs. Now if they were to learn more (which i bet they dont need to) that would take up even moe time.
jeez
lol sorry cant help you with the sites im a lamer :P
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