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It's good that at least someone is trying to address this. There are no decent freelance/telecommuter oriented job sites. The ones out there are generally gea
by dstein 15y ago
It's good that at least someone is trying to address this. There are no decent freelance/telecommuter oriented job sites. The ones out there are generally geared toward the "let's outsource to India" style gigs -- I really can't compete with Indonesian teenagers for $10/hr PHP work. I have a feeling there is a huge swath of untapped talent out there being ignored by companies who are still in the 20th century and demand on-site employees.
- bloggergirl 15y agoI agree! A major opportunity seems to exist in developing a remote work/telecommuting-specific job board. A good one. Like TheLadders for remote/contract/freelance only.
- micheljansen 15y agoI think you won't find many Indonesian kids in India coding PHP. Indonisia is quite a different country from India, and not particularly known for it's booming IT outsourcing opportunities :P
- dstein 15y agoI did not mean that literally Indonesian teenagers are in India finding PHP jobs. I meant that people in many poor countries (Indonesia, India, Philippines etc) must be competing for these minimum wage programming jobs.
- micheljansen 15y agoI was just pointing out a mildly embarrassing factual error in your argument (but one that is made frequently); your points remain valid of course :)
- ohashi 15y agoI started an outsourcing company in Indonesia... not sure if it was any more or less fraught with problems honestly. Certainly are quite a few people doing outsourcing there though, no idea what the threshold for booming is.
- M1573RMU74710N 15y agoFWIW, I don't think they were saying that Indonesia is part of India or that the two are related. I could see how one might make the leap logically, but it's not what was being implied. The "India" was part of a descriptive label, and "Indonesia" was clearly a country just picked at random for illustrative purposes. It's like if I told you I got a scroll written in "India Ink" while in Michigan...I'm not saying Michigan is in India.