Access Development Freelance

[Cy]

Hi all,

I wanted to start a thread that might help many of us. I worked for a
company for 12 years, until this past Christmas when they let me go.
Getting rid of the higher dollar guys, in favor of more profit, was the
reasoning. Oh well.

Anyhow. I built this companies network from the ground up. Then about
8 years ago, I developed a MS Access 2.0 database. This database, much
like others, was supposed to just tiny bits. Over the course of time,
we converted to 97, then to 2000, then this past summer to 2003. The
database now runs almost every aspect of the company, from contract
management to payroll (outsourced) to contact management to sales to
production measurement and budgeting tools, except the Accounting end,
yet it interfaces and pulls data out for custom report in Access.
Towards the end of my tenor, say the past 3 years, I had 2 guys doing
the hardware/break fix, while I spent most of the time developing. The
company is about $50 million in size, with about 80 users access this
database daily. The back end is SQL, front end Access.

Ok, enough of the history lesson. What I would like to figure out,
since I feel I have become pretty good at creating, modifying/making
databases, is any suggestions on how to get into consulting/freelance
Access work. I know, that I have read other threads, that state there
aren't a number of truly qualified Access developers out there. I've
tried finding free lance sites, but that seems like a fruitless effort.

Any help for a guy in Cincinnati who is trying to make it in life,
would be appreciated. Would be good to hear everyone else's take on
this.

Thanks for looking and commenting.

[Larry Linson]

"PC Datasheet" wrote

And so, Larry, let's cut through all your sub-
terfuge and evasiveness crap and I will ask
you bluntly --

Isn't it true that a couple of years ago you
emailed me and asked if I would subcontract
to you some of the Access database work I
was doing for people who saw my name in the
newsgroups and sent me an email requesting
fee-based help from me?

No subterfuge and evasiveness on my part, Steve: The short answer to your
question is "No, I did not."

The longer answer is: Before you began your "intensive advertising" campaign
in the newsgroups*, I corresponded with you by e-mail. It is entirely
possible that I discussed the state of the Access contracting business, and
it is entirely possible that I asked if you were getting any business from
your answers in the newsgroup. It is NOT possible that I asked to
subcontract to you.

* that would be, after you reduced your SIG to four
or five lines, as I advised you to if you wanted to
be accepted by the online community, but before
you began responding with "Contact Me Privately",
trying to sell services that others would provide for
free.

Reasoning behind the long answer: After reading about your dealings with the
subcontractor about whom you first posted to this newsgroup, and your
refusal to pay him (even the agreed hours, if I recall) because he did not
accomplish all you thought he should within the estimate, I would never
consider subcontracting to you. I do not do business with people I know are
not likely to live up to the agreements they make. And you had demonstrated
that was your nature -- that you were looking for excuses not to pay people
for the work they did for you. Life is too short to waste part of it dealing
with people who "stiff" their subcontractors.

Is that sufficiently clear? If not, let me try to be "blunt": I wouldn't
trust you to pay for work that a subcontractor does for you, because you
yourself have said that you did not, in at least that one case.

For the information of anyone reading this: I have done subcontract work for
some participants in CDMA but they were people I could and did trust. And,
it was never work they solicited in the newsgroup. Most of us can read,
don't have any trouble understanding, and abide by the FAQ at
http://www.mvps.org/access/netiquette.htm and the charter of the newsgroup,
which you can read there.

Larry Linson

[Keith Wilby]

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