I have that API documented in MS Word if you want to review that-not a problem.

I've worked with a few of these Indians at a place that does outsourcing-the same place that fabricated a sex harassment allegation to get rid of me a week after I told them and their client (without knowing I was talking to the client) that what they proposed solved nothing and wasn't HIPAA compliant as promised. Not to be derogatory or anything of the like, however I think that they're submissive to the point where apathy gets in the way of doing things. I've seen some really brilliant people from that part of the world, and I've seen some that know better, but they're too submissive to say flat out, this is stupid and a waste of money.

I tried doing the freelance thing. Here is what I've learned. As soon as I say budget, I hear money isn't a problem. That translates too they have no money. I've gotten screwed too many times on people doing the freelance thing. Here? I took an ad in the local paper and realized how few people actually had a computer, and they thought my rate was too expensive to come out for a little over half of what CompUSA and places of the like charge for the same thing. So there went that. When I was in Orlando, I did better with a parking lot flyer doing repair stuff while my flyer was visible. After a new phone, business cards and all that to start, I turned enough profit to eat at Chick-Fil-A. Then the flyer went, and there went the business.

As for Hosting, there is one small problem. I literally have 0 income. I don't qualify for unemployment in this state, nor do I qualify for assistance of any kind unless I had a few illegit kids. If it requires dime one, I can't do it. That's the reality.

When I thought I had some viable stock options before everything crashed, I thought I had something like 80K that I could have put into my own thing. I was going to upgrade my own connection, build my own rack, and I was going to start trying to float some quotes. That all went sour on me, and when it finally came to fruition, I spent a lot of that money on interviews in Orlando and Miami.

I thought about relocating to California. However, nobody pays for relocation, and I can't physically move what I have myself. I'd have to pay someone to move my stuff. Then the pay sounds good. However, when I told someone when you factor in the cost of living in LA on one particular job, I told the guy they need to come up another 20K as otherwise I am working for less money. They said they couldn't do it. Well, I am not going to get googly eyed over something that sounds good when I know it gets eaten up and then some through the cost of living, and end up working for less.

Call me nuts, but if I were to go to California, I have another skill that nobody around here for the most part appreciates. Put me in Beverly Hills, West Palm, Boca, or Bal Harbor, I got another idea that's got nothing to do with computers. I'll leave it at that.

The job market in Orlando where I used to live, it's done for as far as computers. There are many a fly by nighter with a business model that stinks. I could tell that from the emails I get and talking to the people running it. I've seen enough failures, and I am not about to relocate to something I know will fail. As for Miami, you have a few cruise lines, and it's all contract and not permanent. You have Assurant that wants someone to do 3 major things at once-which doesn't work and is part of what literally drove me nuts at a place here in Charlotte. Other than that, what's in south FL? I see some fly by nighter startups and some places dependent on stinky real estate and time shares that have gone under.

I've barked up and down a lot of trees-and I mean a lot for many years. The tree's I've seen are half rotted out inside at best.

-joe