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OK, so here's a problem. Even if you do get someone from this site to help you, Ms. Django owns 35% of your company regardless. Best case scenario, someone he

OK, so here's a problem. Even if you do get someone from this site to help you, Ms. Django owns 35% of your company regardless. Best case scenario, someone helps you, the product takes off, you have a big exit... you still have to pay her 35%. That's a big problem. The only way that you're going to get rid of her is to close the company and start over. And, she's wasted 14 months of your time with precious little to show for it. As far as I'm concerned if you work on a Django project for 14 months and have little to show for it, your developer is incompetent. Start over. Chalk it up to a lesson learned. Pick up a couple of books and start learning how to code yourself. That way, you'll know if your next co-founder is producing crap or not. And, you just may be able to code something up yourself. Pick up a prn job just to cover the bills. I'm a nurse, I moved to Silicon Valley, and you can get a prn job out here that pays $75 an hour pretty easy. We have people the commute from Dallas and Oregon to work here. Fly in, work 6 days straight, make 5K and then fly back. Consider it. You'll also make contacts in Silicon Valley which is very valuable.

rbanffy 19y ago
I would point out that a Django developer that can't show something in 14 minutes is incompetent ;-) Yes. It's really that easy.
Xichekolas 19y ago
> We have people the commute from Dallas and Oregon to work here. Fly in, work 6 days straight, make 5K and then fly back. How do I get that sweet deal? I assume I need to be a nurse, but are such gigs really that plentiful? I could work like three weeks a year at that rate.
- iamelgringo 19y ago
  Most hospitals in the Bay area offer "per diem" (4+ shifts a month) positions for nurses like that. The going rate is from $60-80 per hour depending on your shift, experience and position. $70/hr x 12hr shifts x 6 days = $5k gross. But, yeah. Hospitals nation wide are chronically short of staff and California is certainly no exception. Gigs like that are fairly easy to come by if you work it right. A lot of hospitals are willing to work with you and schedule you all in a row like that if they know you. Many nurses come to the Bay area as a contract nurses on a 3 month contract. They develop a relationship with a department or manager, and then sign on as a per diem and arrange their schedule so they work 6 shifts in a row at the end of one pay period and the beginning of the next one. I think there will be more and more of this since there is such a disparity in pay between nursing wages in the South and wages in the Bay and in California in general. A nurse in Alabama can work their heart out for $20-25 an hour taking care of 6-8 patients at a time in the ER, while the same nurse in California will make 2-3 times that and care for no more than 4 patients at a time (state mandated staffing ratios). Staffing ratios mean that hospitals have to maintain minimum staffing levels and if they don't they get in trouble with the state. That means that nursing salaries go up and they're willing to have nurses commute from TX, or Oregon or wherever.

rbanffy 19y ago

I would point out that a Django developer that can't show something in 14 minutes is incompetent ;-) Yes. It's really that easy.

Xichekolas 19y ago

> We have people the commute from Dallas and Oregon to work here. Fly in, work 6 days straight, make 5K and then fly back. How do I get that sweet deal? I assume I need to be a nurse, but are such gigs really that plentiful? I could work like three weeks a year at that rate.

iamelgringo 19y ago
Most hospitals in the Bay area offer "per diem" (4+ shifts a month) positions for nurses like that. The going rate is from $60-80 per hour depending on your shift, experience and position. $70/hr x 12hr shifts x 6 days = $5k gross. But, yeah. Hospitals nation wide are chronically short of staff and California is certainly no exception. Gigs like that are fairly easy to come by if you work it right. A lot of hospitals are willing to work with you and schedule you all in a row like that if they know you. Many nurses come to the Bay area as a contract nurses on a 3 month contract. They develop a relationship with a department or manager, and then sign on as a per diem and arrange their schedule so they work 6 shifts in a row at the end of one pay period and the beginning of the next one. I think there will be more and more of this since there is such a disparity in pay between nursing wages in the South and wages in the Bay and in California in general. A nurse in Alabama can work their heart out for $20-25 an hour taking care of 6-8 patients at a time in the ER, while the same nurse in California will make 2-3 times that and care for no more than 4 patients at a time (state mandated staffing ratios). Staffing ratios mean that hospitals have to maintain minimum staffing levels and if they don't they get in trouble with the state. That means that nursing salaries go up and they're willing to have nurses commute from TX, or Oregon or wherever.