Re: Contractors: Local jobs, out of town recruiters?

[Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

   [1]mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com wrote:

How many of you get... or have had... jobs with remote
companies, where the company

a) planned and allowed enough time in their schedule that
 real working hardware and software would exist before
 a reasonable documentation schedule began and

b) sent you one or more devices that they normally sell
 for upwards of USD25000, so that you could actually
  work with what you were documenting?


   Hi Kevin,
   The answer to both your questions is none, because I never pursued the
   opportunities that far. I have no desire to spend half my time away from my
   family, which the positions required.  The job that I am about to start is
   local.  However, other contracts I've been involved with required me to be
   onsite so there was no need to send expensive hardware to work with while I
   did the documentation.  It was already there.  As for having real working
   hardware or software before documentation begins, I've had some companies
   that brought TWs in at the beginning of a project and some (actually most)
   that waited until the last minute.

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References

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