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Content: Greetings, want to represent LA, help me, Global Jam is 48 hours of fun and excitiment for a good cause. Get int ouch with me if you want to particiapate.
Content: Break out your cameras! There is still two weeks left to enter the AT&T Simplify Your Life video contest. Don’t miss your opportunity to submit cool videos and win the $20,000 Grand Prize. Simple changes can make huge differences in our everyday lives -- AT&T’s Online Services allow you to easily manage your account, pay your AT&T bills automatically and get answers about your account at anytime without picking up a phone.
Content: This is a sore spot for me having lived in a wide variety of cities before moving to LA 3 years ago. No question there are a lot of opportunities for the creative community in Southern California. But I've noticed something pretty quick. Most jobs I see posted whether it's Craigslist, the LAFlash Job Board or other tech references in the area are for Full-Time and not much freelance. And those that are for freelance or 'contract' work are typically on-site jobs. I find that pretty amazing considering the idea of being a freelance is that you can work on multiple projects at once. That's how I've always worked. I do my work entirely from home, communicate by phone and email (I rarely IM) and multi-task. Guess what? Projects get done a lot faster. But do clients want it that way? Noooooo! They want you on a leash at their pad and have you chained at a desk like you're in jail. I just don't understand that. Especially now with so many offices forcing employees to come in for fewer days or work from home. And we still don't get our true rate in some cases! Anyone else notice this nasty trend? We can't let this continue and have the clients truly 'boss' us around on their turf!
Content: This is a sore spot for me having lived in a wide variety of cities before moving to LA 3 years ago. No question there are a lot of opportunities for the creative community in Southern California. But I've noticed something pretty quick. Most jobs I see posted whether it's Craigslist, the LAFlash Job Board or other tech references in the area are for Full-Time and not much freelance. And those that are for freelance or 'contract' work are typically on-site jobs. I find that pretty amazing considering the idea of being a freelance is that you can work on multiple projects at once. That's how I've always worked. I do my work entirely from home, communicate by phone and email (I rarely IM) and multi-task. Guess what? Projects get done a lot faster. But do clients want it that way? Noooooo! They want you on a leash at their pad and have you chained at a desk like you're in jail. I just don't understand that. Especially now with so many offices forcing employees to come in for fewer days or work from home. And we still don't get our true rate in some cases! Anyone else notice this nasty trend? We can't let this continue and have the clients truly 'boss' us around on their turf!
Content: This is a sore spot for me having lived in a wide variety of cities before moving to LA 3 years ago. No question there are a lot of opportunities for the creative community in Southern California. But I've noticed something pretty quick. Most jobs I see posted whether it's Craigslist, the LAFlash Job Board or other tech references in the area are for Full-Time and not much freelance. And those that are for freelance or 'contract' work are typically on-site jobs. I find that pretty amazing considering the idea of being a freelance is that you can work on multiple projects at once. That's how I've always worked. I do my work entirely from home, communicate by phone and email (I rarely IM) and multi-task. Guess what? Projects get done a lot faster. But do clients want it that way? Noooooo! They want you on a leash at their pad and have you chained at a desk like you're in jail. I just don't understand that. Especially now with so many offices forcing employees to come in for fewer days or work from home. And we still don't get our true rate in some cases! Anyone else notice this nasty trend? We can't let this continue and have the clients truly 'boss' us around on their turf!
Content: No secret. This has been a real frustrating year and while most people won't say it, we're definitely in a recession. A recession far worse than anything I've ever seen. While we're not in soup lines just yet, it's been a difficult environment for designers here in LA. The jobs are there but usually for far less than what our talents are truly worth. Freelancers are really suffering with few new gigs, waiting forever for client payments and having to do work in part for trade or a percentage in a start-up that's having their own problems with funding. What's been your situation in this new economy and are you surviving?
Content: No secret. This has been a real frustrating year and while most people won't say it, we're definitely in a recession. A recession far worse than anything I've ever seen. While we're not in soup lines just yet, it's been a difficult environment for designers here in LA. The jobs are there but usually for far less than what our talents are truly worth. Freelancers are really suffering with few new gigs, waiting forever for client payments and having to do work in part for trade or a percentage in a start-up that's having their own problems with funding. What's been your situation in this new economy and are you surviving?
Content: No secret. This has been a real frustrating year and while most people won't say it, we're definitely in a recession. A recession far worse than anything I've ever seen. While we're not in soup lines just yet, it's been a difficult environment for designers here in LA. The jobs are there but usually for far less than what our talents are truly worth. Freelancers are really suffering with few new gigs, waiting forever for client payments and having to do work in part for trade or a percentage in a start-up that's having their own problems with funding. What's been your situation in this new economy and are you surviving?
Content: Unfortunately, due to a client from New Orleans (my old homebase) hitting LA this week, I couldn't make it to MAX this year. But I know a lot of people did. So if you're from LA, tell us where you're from and what you thought of this year's event. Let the LAdobe community represent at MAX'08!
Content: Unfortunately, due to a client from New Orleans (my old homebase) hitting LA this week, I couldn't make it to MAX this year. But I know a lot of people did. So if you're from LA, tell us where you're from and what you thought of this year's event. Let the LAdobe community represent at MAX'08! |
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