Cheap as chips, solid as a rock

Hi,
Sorry about the impersonal nature of this letter, but I'd like to let you
know I'm offering my programming services for £10.00 per hour or a fixed job
price.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to attend site because of arthritis in the lower
back, but can develop any software from home and send the tested deliverable
to you by email.

I have worked in IT as a developer for the past 20 years and have experience
of a variety of industries, and the needs of both large and small companies.
I live in Bristol, England and am looking for any work I can perform from my
home.

I have produced systems which use, http, ftp, pop3, smtp, COM, DDE, and odbc
protocols and performed tasks in data migration, data cleansing, code
generators, data loading, dbms data entry and validation, reporting,
graphics, and sound.

I'm happy to take on any type of work, will advise honestly whether I can
complete the task, on schedule and within budget, and am looking forward to
being useful in any way possible.

If you have any work which I can do, please do not hesitate to contact me on
0777 607 3048 or email me at (E-Mail Removed) .

Many thanks for your time,

Don Cruickshank
www.dcruickshank.freeserve.co.uk

"Don Cruickshank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:c0boll$qj9$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> Sorry about the impersonal nature of this letter, but I'd like to let you
> know I'm offering my programming services for £10.00 per hour or a fixed
job
> price.


Now.. A nicely written letter.
Possibly against usenet charter.. No Biggie.
But I'm afraid programming has little to do with Networking for the most
part.

Check out some of the Programming specific newsgroups bud

Don Cruickshank wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry about the impersonal nature of this letter, but I'd like to let
> you know I'm offering my programming services for £10.00 per hour or
> a fixed job price.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm unable to attend site because of arthritis in the
> lower back, but can develop any software from home and send the
> tested deliverable to you by email.
>
> I have worked in IT as a developer for the past 20 years and have
> experience of a variety of industries, and the needs of both large
> and small companies. I live in Bristol, England and am looking for
> any work I can perform from my home.
>
> I have produced systems which use, http, ftp, pop3, smtp, COM, DDE,
> and odbc protocols and performed tasks in data migration, data
> cleansing, code generators, data loading, dbms data entry and
> validation, reporting, graphics, and sound.
>
> I'm happy to take on any type of work, will advise honestly whether I
> can complete the task, on schedule and within budget, and am looking
> forward to being useful in any way possible.
>
> If you have any work which I can do, please do not hesitate to
> contact me on 0777 607 3048 or email me at (E-Mail Removed) .
>
> Many thanks for your time,
>
> Don Cruickshank
> www.dcruickshank.freeserve.co.uk

Contract agencies are probably your best target, but don't let them know
you'll work so cheap.

--

Alan

"Ian Clark" <sparhawk__@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c0btr0$14uurs$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Don Cruickshank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:c0boll$qj9$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi,
> > Sorry about the impersonal nature of this letter, but I'd like to let
you
> > know I'm offering my programming services for £10.00 per hour or a fixed
> job
> > price.
>
>
> Now.. A nicely written letter.
> Possibly against usenet charter.. No Biggie.
> But I'm afraid programming has little to do with Networking for the most
> part.
>
> Check out some of the Programming specific newsgroups bud
>
>

LOL, sorry wrong kind of home-networking.
Rgds
Don

"Don Cruickshank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:c0e2g9$heg$(E-Mail Removed)...
>

>
> LOL, sorry wrong kind of home-networking.
> Rgds
> Don
>
>

Heh ) Glad you didn't take my reply wrongly

Good luck with the work

Don Cruickshank <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> "Ian Clark" <sparhawk__@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c0btr0$14uurs$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > "Don Cruickshank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:c0boll$qj9$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Hi,
> > > Sorry about the impersonal nature of this letter, but I'd like to let
> you
> > > know I'm offering my programming services for £10.00 per hour or a fixed
> > job
> > > price.
> >
> >
> > Now.. A nicely written letter.
> > Possibly against usenet charter.. No Biggie.
> > But I'm afraid programming has little to do with Networking for the most
> > part.
> >
> > Check out some of the Programming specific newsgroups bud
> >
> >
>
> LOL, sorry wrong kind of home-networking.

That highlights one classic bit of Usenet [n]etiquette, it's a good
idea to lurk for a while before posting in a newsgroup. Even a single
'lurk' would have meant that you'd have realised this was the wrong
newsgroup for your message. Targetting your message correctly *and*
not missing your target beforehand will greatly improve your chances
of success in my opinion. Someone who has posted irrelevant messages
all over the place before posting one in the right place is less
likely to be listened to than someone who gets it right first time.

In addition the services you are hoping to sell need a lot of
forethought if you're going to do things right, so showing that you
have the capacity for that sort of forethought is a good idea when
trying to sell yourself.

Sorry for being so serious! :-)

--
Chris Green

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:c0fkkl$16hs6b$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Don Cruickshank <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> > "Ian Clark" <sparhawk__@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:c0btr0$14uurs$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >
> > > "Don Cruickshank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > news:c0boll$qj9$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Sorry about the impersonal nature of this letter, but I'd like to
let
> > you
> > > > know I'm offering my programming services for £10.00 per hour or a
fixed
> > > job
> > > > price.
> > >
> > >
> > > Now.. A nicely written letter.
> > > Possibly against usenet charter.. No Biggie.
> > > But I'm afraid programming has little to do with Networking for the
most
> > > part.
> > >
> > > Check out some of the Programming specific newsgroups bud
> > >
> > >
> >
> > LOL, sorry wrong kind of home-networking.
>
> That highlights one classic bit of Usenet [n]etiquette, it's a good
> idea to lurk for a while before posting in a newsgroup. Even a single
> 'lurk' would have meant that you'd have realised this was the wrong
> newsgroup for your message. Targetting your message correctly *and*
> not missing your target beforehand will greatly improve your chances
> of success in my opinion. Someone who has posted irrelevant messages
> all over the place before posting one in the right place is less
> likely to be listened to than someone who gets it right first time.
>
> In addition the services you are hoping to sell need a lot of
> forethought if you're going to do things right, so showing that you
> have the capacity for that sort of forethought is a good idea when
> trying to sell yourself.
>
> Sorry for being so serious! :-)
>
> --
> Chris Green

Hey !
Thanks very much for all your opinions. Sorry to have posted incorrectly,
sometimes we all have time to lurk, other times not, but please don't assume
you have all the knowledge about netiquette, your attitude and tone in this
posting means you clearly do not.
Don

"Ian Clark" <sparhawk__@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c0em2f$16ges1$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Don Cruickshank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:c0e2g9$heg$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
>
> >
> > LOL, sorry wrong kind of home-networking.
> > Rgds
> > Don
> >
> >
>
> Heh ) Glad you didn't take my reply wrongly
>
> Good luck with the work
>
>

Many thanks,
Don

"Alan Walker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:MtqWb.3565$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Don Cruickshank wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Sorry about the impersonal nature of this letter, but I'd like to let
> > you know I'm offering my programming services for £10.00 per hour or
> > a fixed job price.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I'm unable to attend site because of arthritis in the
> > lower back, but can develop any software from home and send the
> > tested deliverable to you by email.
> >
> > I have worked in IT as a developer for the past 20 years and have
> > experience of a variety of industries, and the needs of both large
> > and small companies. I live in Bristol, England and am looking for
> > any work I can perform from my home.
> >
> > I have produced systems which use, http, ftp, pop3, smtp, COM, DDE,
> > and odbc protocols and performed tasks in data migration, data
> > cleansing, code generators, data loading, dbms data entry and
> > validation, reporting, graphics, and sound.
> >
> > I'm happy to take on any type of work, will advise honestly whether I
> > can complete the task, on schedule and within budget, and am looking
> > forward to being useful in any way possible.
> >
> > If you have any work which I can do, please do not hesitate to
> > contact me on 0777 607 3048 or email me at (E-Mail Removed) .
> >
> > Many thanks for your time,
> >
> > Don Cruickshank
> > www.dcruickshank.freeserve.co.uk
>
> Contract agencies are probably your best target, but don't let them know
> you'll work so cheap.
>
> --
>
> Alan
>
>
>

Many thanks for the advice, been a contractor for 14 years, developer for 20
years, unfortunately age and spinal arthritis means I now have limited
mobility, so no work for the past year. And I'm wilingl to sell my time for
£1 an hour, it's a pound more than I'm getting at the moment.
But thanks for the kind words.
Don

Don Cruickshank <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> > That highlights one classic bit of Usenet [n]etiquette, it's a good
> > idea to lurk for a while before posting in a newsgroup. Even a single
> > 'lurk' would have meant that you'd have realised this was the wrong
> > newsgroup for your message. Targetting your message correctly *and*
> > not missing your target beforehand will greatly improve your chances
> > of success in my opinion. Someone who has posted irrelevant messages
> > all over the place before posting one in the right place is less
> > likely to be listened to than someone who gets it right first time.
> >
> > In addition the services you are hoping to sell need a lot of
> > forethought if you're going to do things right, so showing that you
> > have the capacity for that sort of forethought is a good idea when
> > trying to sell yourself.
> >
> > Sorry for being so serious! :-)
> >
> > --
> > Chris Green
>
> Hey !
> Thanks very much for all your opinions. Sorry to have posted incorrectly,
> sometimes we all have time to lurk, other times not, but please don't assume
> you have all the knowledge about netiquette, your attitude and tone in this
> posting means you clearly do not.
> Don
>
It was only a fairly gentle comment, hence the line at the end.

Where did I say that I "have all the knowledge about netiquette"?

I was trying to be helpful in the sense that having been in IT since the
1970s (I'm still a full-time programmer) I think I have some experience
of what encourages people to give you business, or not.

All I was suggesting was that jumping in without thinking (which you
*appeared* to have done) is not the best way to sell your expertise as
a programmer.

--
Chris Green