"roy" <melkor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Interesting permutations. Outsourcing from California - where presumably
> the labor rates are high.....
>
> You know, I get different feelings based on where it is going to.
> Paying the Social Security tax of the self employed is always a good
idea.
> Try to not forget it.
Heh, well I was hoping to sort not mention this extra work to the taxman,
but that's about as far I will go with fraud.
> But assuming everything is on the up & up, your labor rate should be as
> least as much as you could get where you are, and up to whatever he is
> willing to pay. The things that make prices in California high the
> Californians have done to themselves over the years. Aligator tears.
I live in the UK, and if anything it looks like we get paid as much or
possibly more here. However, I am in need of some extra money to get some
money together for a mortgage.
> But the structural engineer is either a cheapskate, or stupid. Unless
you
> know what it is you are drawing you will either be slow or prone to the
> kind of mistakes that are costly - his liability. That's why we have
that
> pesky "under DIRECT supervision" requirement for drafting for an
engineer
> in Missouri.
He says he likes the idea of the time difference with me in the UK,
allowing
him to red-line drawing that I out on a java webpage at the end of my day.
I personally think that I am one of the best people that he could find for
working in ArchiCAD in this way as I know how to do it, and have never met
anybody else that has. I do think that he is looking to do this on the
cheap, but in my cir***stances I want to go as low as I can to make this
deal.
> Doesn't seem like HE is the kind I would work for, but it's your choice.
It's not ideal, but I'll see how it goes.
> Hard up?
Yep.
ss.
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