Hehe, not too long ago, when I was looking for a new gig, I was talking to a headhunter who needed a top notch Oracle guy for a 2-3 month gig (i.e. short term). They needed RAC knowledge, performance tuning expert and what-not. Sounded interesting. Pay? $40/hr. Talk about falling out of the chair laughing. haha. He then asked if I knew someone else interested and I told him, truthfully, that I didn't know anyone that would work any job for that rate. On 5/9/08, TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That reminds me of a time way back in the dark ages(1998), Oracle Corp > called and said "Hey we are interested in you becoming our hot-shot person > for the state of ohio, you'll be on-call 24x365, have to be at a client site > in < 3 hrs from when we call you, day or night, and we'll pay you $70K/yr, > you interested?", > > I about fell out of my chair laughing. > > Joe > It's still like that as I'm sure you know. Many large companies only contract through a list of "preferred vendors". If you want in you have to sub-contract through them. They will take anywhere from 25-50% of the pie. All they do is push papers across the table. >When I first started with Oracle, back in '90, I was a contractor. My >pay was $9.50/hour. The contracting company charged the Bureau of >Mines ADP group $21.50/hour for me. The ADP group (who all contracts >had to go through) charged the office I was working for $35.00/hour. Finn -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l