Forum Overview :: Tansin A. Darcos's Alter Ego :: Re: "When consumed as a liquid, it has more calories per line than Slop (R)"

[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"][quote name="Pac n' Pal"]Commander Tansin A. Darcos, do you feel that you could use the programming practices learned in Pascal and apply them to a more modern language? Do you know that you could be making hundreds of thousands of dollars as an independent contractor? Why not do that thing? [/quote] Tell me how, I've tried. Seriously. Doesn't matter how good I am, doesn't matter what I can do, doesn't matter what I know, no place is seriously going to want a 52 year old overweight man in a wheelchair. Nobody wants to hire developers over 40, they can get people younger and (presumably) cheaper (disregarding whether they are, if I wanted $10 an hour and some other guy with less experience but half my age wanted $40 an hour, he's automatically cheaper notwithstanding reality). And especially nobody wants to hire <i>anyone</i> who is disabled. The exceptions are few and far between; the unemployment rate among the disabled hovers in the same range as the unemployment rate of black teenagers, above the 80% mark. Besides, I really don't have the stamina to work 8 hours a day anymore, or at least, not in one stretch. I'm the type of person that I can do perhaps 4 hours, then have to take a nap for a while, then can come back for a few hours. I mean, I could easily put in 10 hours a day but I can't do it all at once. And are you sure about those numbers? I've looked at places like Freelancer.com (formerly Rent a coder), to the extent they are fee happy from subscriptions rather than making money from assignments people have taken and solved, the fees people are offering are notoriously bad. They'd be pretty good - if they were offering these jobs back around 1970 - or if you want to make about $3 an hour. They're terrific rates if you live in Russia or India. I seriously doubt you could make enough to support yourself, not on what it costs to live in the United States. To make the kind of money you're talking about I figure you have to already have a security clearance. [/quote]