Anthony checks in with an article about a fellow who enterprisingly off-shored his own job. Per Anthony:
Now this comports with the advice I have given here about no longer thinking of yourself as an employee, but of your employer as a "client." I wonder if the fellow read my posts? He seems to have organized the management of his "clients" projects well. Admirable!
I am not sure why anyone is surprised by this, I heard of this sort of thing going on back in the 1980s. I imagine it has blossomed wonderfully. And it makes one wonder about the HB-1 visa program, that offers employment in USA to brilliant software engineers from overseas. Perhaps aplenty of those brilliant software engineers who do the work of ten in fact have a posse of ten back home working away for 20% of a USA income.
If this is widespread, then I would understand how USA born and raised engineers would be miffed at the competitive advantage the HB-1 visa holder might have. But this would be pusillanimous. If it works, those USA-bed engineers should be lining up crews overseas to do their work, and be every bit as competitive as HB-1 visa holders. Don't envy success, learn from it, adapt to it.
Now no doubt this fellow will lose his job and face possible sanctions. Too bad! We have so many people doing wonderful things, and then we prosecute them. Like a nine year old kid who scammed his way onto airlines so he could go visit his grandpa, and the teen who eluded law-enforcement for years, sometimes by stealing airplanes he intuited how to fly! I want to work with these people... they should be teaching! We ought not be prosecuting them!
So, again, stop thinking of yourself as an employee, and think of your employer as a client. Do as much as you can for your client, for the least amount of money. And think of this client as only one in a series you'll be serving as a customer employed independent contractor. Who knows what brilliant plots you'll hatch.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
"The employee, an "inoffensive and quiet" but talented man versed in several programming languages, "spent less than one fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him", Mr Valentine said.
"Authentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average nine-to-five work day," he added.
And he watched cat videos! He could have started another business.
Now this comports with the advice I have given here about no longer thinking of yourself as an employee, but of your employer as a "client." I wonder if the fellow read my posts? He seems to have organized the management of his "clients" projects well. Admirable!
I am not sure why anyone is surprised by this, I heard of this sort of thing going on back in the 1980s. I imagine it has blossomed wonderfully. And it makes one wonder about the HB-1 visa program, that offers employment in USA to brilliant software engineers from overseas. Perhaps aplenty of those brilliant software engineers who do the work of ten in fact have a posse of ten back home working away for 20% of a USA income.
If this is widespread, then I would understand how USA born and raised engineers would be miffed at the competitive advantage the HB-1 visa holder might have. But this would be pusillanimous. If it works, those USA-bed engineers should be lining up crews overseas to do their work, and be every bit as competitive as HB-1 visa holders. Don't envy success, learn from it, adapt to it.
Now no doubt this fellow will lose his job and face possible sanctions. Too bad! We have so many people doing wonderful things, and then we prosecute them. Like a nine year old kid who scammed his way onto airlines so he could go visit his grandpa, and the teen who eluded law-enforcement for years, sometimes by stealing airplanes he intuited how to fly! I want to work with these people... they should be teaching! We ought not be prosecuting them!
So, again, stop thinking of yourself as an employee, and think of your employer as a client. Do as much as you can for your client, for the least amount of money. And think of this client as only one in a series you'll be serving as a customer employed independent contractor. Who knows what brilliant plots you'll hatch.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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