I find myself wondering what kind of numbers they'd need for a break-even, as well as how small the code would have to be for a mobile-device discriminating semi-sync version (only brings bookmarks to mobile-friendly or mobile-capable sites from one's home list)

Might be an opportunity for a micro-payment level subscription service here...

Good to hear you're positive about your survival - next question (and please feel free to tell me it's none of my durn business, but:) Why *not* look harder into self-employment? I mean, as long as you're looking outside your current career field...??? For many, the more that conventional job security is revealed as myth, the more viable other opportunities appear to be (all perception, but in this case it turns into self-fulfilling analysis...).

Fisher-people say "You go where the fish are." It's really too bad you couldn't totally tele-commute to whatever job you wind up with, or locate such a large portion of your own self-employment online that you might stay put and find opportunity in what must be a drastically falling real-estate market - I made my own leap to full-time self-employment mostly out of self-preservation: my mental state would NOT have coped with conventional employers' BS after the loss of my angel - now, they wouldn't pay me enough to go back.
Between what I do, and trading the short sides of markets that still have long distances to fall, I do okay.
Here's wishing you luck in whatever you wind up doing!

Funny thing about the first proverbial rats off of the sinking ship: Call them cowards all we want, they live to reproduce more often than the ones who go down with it...

And then people have the nerve to wonder why politicians aren't trusted...

Is what happens when proper preparation meets opportunity...
Bon chance.

Poll: How was your week?

[_] Sucked!
[_] Sucked less than yours!
[_] Sucked more than yours!
[_] Ha, sucks 2 B U, b*tch!
[_] Where's the dress?

[X] Because it just ain't a proper slashdot poll without a missing option: My week was fair

Mostly because I live on the good side of the hiring desk (we even have *cookies*!), and, as more and more people wake up from the dream and realize that security of any kind stemming from conventional jobs is a myth, I'm in really good position to demonstrate exactly how to get to second base, third, or even home with a foot still on first until they yank it out from under...

Conventional job maxes out at 100% of what an employer will pay you for 100% of your own efforts for 100% of the hours they offer as available schedule.

My business model, even *if* it were only 1% of my own efforts and the ones who join my team (It's more, but there's a point to be made), has potential available to grow well past 10 times the conventional model, with the benefits of zero layoffs, working when I want with whom I want as much or as little as I want...

Yeah my weeks are all looking like they're gonna be better than the ones like you had last week, and I had back when I had bosses.

Location isn't the only factor in earning, although it can help - unless you can create a burning desire for what you offer, you'll need to offer things people already have burning desires *for*.

When I recently re-started my journey, I was fixated on the number of pounds: Now, I'm mostly ignoring those in favor of fitness/strength numbers (Run endurance and speed, pounds lifted) and inches (subtracting from waist and thighs, adding to arms, chest, and shoulders) - I find myself enjoying the gratitude of my friends and teammates more than the new paychecks I'm getting!

I've been writing my own name on the POTUS line since I've been old enough to hold the office - I don't think Cthulhu was born in the US...

Missing a couple of key thoughts, though: What about the idea of one-way, or tilted connections (where information flow is 90% one direction, 10% feedback)? And, what of the idea of overcoming thresholds, reaching "Tipping Points"? To abuse Shadow's flying analogy, consider the efforts put into flying machines prior to breaking the sound "barrier". I submit that "noise" in this context might be defined as "energy directed in ways considered less useful than 'signal' by the observer".

It's the 21st century - aren't you tired of playing 'telegraph'? Employers, how frustrating is it to waste your valuable time going through an intermediary who doesn't fully understand your needs, and so tries to present you with prospects who can only partially fulfill them? Professionals, how would you like to present *your* unique combinations of skills, talents and desire in the best light possible, rather than as just another head in a headhunter's briefcase? - It's time to save time and save money, to go direct to the source, femmesenaffaires! (or whatever you name the actual site)

(BTW, for those areas that yield themselves to testing, offering test-qualified status to candidates and test-qualified candidates to employers will go a long way for credibility)

(you're welcome)

Now, about those health issues...?

Ah, Jesus - perhaps not the first, but certainly one of the world's most famous, network marketers!

Yep - meanwhile, I'm very glad business is NOT like baseball, in that it is entirely possible to take second, third, and even home before relinquishing that tenuous hold on first. Let me know, please, when you're site's all the way live, I'll be looking for self-employment-minded candidates!