[CLUE-Talk] interesting home business article - from slashdot

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Monday 28 July 2003 03:20 pm, Timothy C. Klein wrote:


> I would be nervous about the training field.  Companies like Qwest are
> waking up to the fact that the prices they were paying for computer
> training made Hardvard look cheap (no, that's not a joke, they really
> do).  Couple that with the fact that half of the trainers that were hired
> at Qwest were at least somewhat incompetent.


The computer training works well for intro/phb type stuff. It fails for 
high-end. 

As to Qwest/USWest, well yeah, they have always had their fair share of ppl 
hiding from real jobs. From what I have heard from some of my friends who 
still work there, there are still a lot of ppl hiding from doing a real job
(of course, I should be coding right now, rather than writeing this, so.....).


> So now they have much stricter guidelines about who they will hire, and
> what they will pay.  If the rest of the market is like Qwest, I would
> suspect that training might be harder right now.  Or it might just be that
> some folks that didn't deserve to be in the field to begin with have
> been forced to leave it (*not* saying that about your friends).  Over
> the course of 7 years at Qwest, I met some real snake oil salesman in
> the training field.
>
> That said, I am sure one could do it if they were teaching the right
> thing at a fair price, and really knew what they were doing.

That is why you keep the prices low, and training good. Shoot for the 
high-end, not the low-end. And know your stuff. It is also good to know 
multiple areas. The ability to answer questions (or help on projects) is 
huge.

Did I mention that you need to know the material inside and out as a 
developer? :)


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cheers
g.r.r.
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