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As a 1099 consultant, I usually use a placement firm to find a contract job. I always ask the placement firm what rate they are billing the client. They usually tell me. When they don’t, it’s a sure sign that their markup is excessive (but note sometime...
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In the same vein as my blog post about Syncing your calendars, I wanted to post how to sync your contacts in Outlook, Gmail (Google Contacts), and iPhone:
- Transfer your Outlook contacts to Gmail via Transfer contacts between Outlook and Google Gmail
- In...
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LinkedIn is a great resource to improve your career. It has definitely worked for me as the last 5-6 jobs I have been hired for was because a recruiter found me through LinkedIn or I noticed a job posting on LinkedIn. And because my income has nearly tri...
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As a business intelligence architect consultant, I have met many people out there who are as good or better than me in building business intelligence solutions, yet earn much less than I do. Why you ask? In the past 18 months, I have nearly tripled my ye...
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I have a desktop computer, a laptop, and a iPhone. I frequently add meetings to my Outlook calender on my desktop computer, but sometimes enter them on my laptop. And I frequently use my iPhone to alert me about upcoming meetings. These leads to a major...
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I blogged previously that when you are a consultant or contractor, you can sometimes be faced with the decision when taking a new contract of whether to go 1099 or W-2 (Consultants: 1099 or W-2?). However, some staffing firms or clients don’t do 109...
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Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation “Scaling SQL Server to HUNDREDS of Terabytes” at HASSUG.
Here is the PowerPoint presentation: Scaling SQL Server to HUNDREDS of Terabytes
As a followup to a question from the presentation about clustering the appliances, I have found that Dell offers......
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Since I work mostly from home, video/voice conferencing and IM are of major importance to me, and using the right tools is vital to keeping me productive. The tools used for conferencing should have IM, presence indicator, voice and video calls, desktop sharing, file transfer and ad hoc conferences......
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Are you a salaried employee looking to switch to a W-2 or 1099 contractor? (For an explanation of W-2 and 1099, click Consultants: 1099 or W-2?) If so, what hourly pay rate would you need to at least match your salary?
When trying to decide the equivalent pay between being a Permanent/Salaried/Ful......
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Over the years, I have accumulated a set of questions that I usually ask the placement firm about a contract position (W2 or 1099) that I am looking at taking. Many of these questions will also apply if you are thinking about working as a salaried employee for a consulting firm:
- What is the job ......
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