if anyone wants a website or knows someone who needs a webmaster, email me. I really like web design, so I'll do it for free or, if its a bigger job, dirt cheap. And when I say dirt cheap, I literally mean enough money to buy a bag of chips.
Burkey214@comcast.net
web design
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It's nice that you like your work enough to want to do it for nothing, but the implications of this are very far-reaching...
1) It has a name -- slavery. I appreciate you are not working against your will, but working for nothing on commercial ventures is slavery. Unles you are an intern, when it's just straight exploitation.
2) If you are good at your job, you are undermining people who do this for a living. If you are bad at your job it will give everybody a bad name.
3) If people don't employ you, it may be that they despise you for holding these beliefs. If they do employ you, they might keep quiet about their views because they are exploiting you, but they probably still despise you.
My two pennies...
J
1) It has a name -- slavery. I appreciate you are not working against your will, but working for nothing on commercial ventures is slavery. Unles you are an intern, when it's just straight exploitation.
2) If you are good at your job, you are undermining people who do this for a living. If you are bad at your job it will give everybody a bad name.
3) If people don't employ you, it may be that they despise you for holding these beliefs. If they do employ you, they might keep quiet about their views because they are exploiting you, but they probably still despise you.
My two pennies...
J
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
I think websites out-of-a-box are becoming increasingling more sofisticated and building templates for these apps might not be so labor-intensive as one might assume. I'm no expert, but I saw a demonstration of Rapidweaver by Realmac software and was impressed by the flexibility and ease-of-use.
If one could develop themes for apps like Rapidweaver without too much trouble, some hobbyist and semiprofessional developers could work for micropayments (1-2 USD) per downloaded third-party theme. It's not for free, but by using PayPal this scenario is certainly more realistic (and fair and sustainable on the long term) than the suggestion by the original poster.
If one could develop themes for apps like Rapidweaver without too much trouble, some hobbyist and semiprofessional developers could work for micropayments (1-2 USD) per downloaded third-party theme. It's not for free, but by using PayPal this scenario is certainly more realistic (and fair and sustainable on the long term) than the suggestion by the original poster.