Is there anyone on this list looking for side work in Western NC or possibly Eastern TN, North Western SC?
Please enquirer directly to Rick at ashevillecommunity dot org. Include resume' and salary requirements. If you can't make a drive to Asheville in a few hours then I am not interested and you need not reply.
This will be contract work as needed. There currently is a CPLD project that needs to be done and others are coming up this year.
Rick
Gee, if I knew there was significant work there I'd put it much higher on my list of places to move.
Perfect! Except I'm not there, yet. ;-)
-- Keith
On 2/28/2007 7:36 PM, The digits of krw's hands composed the following: >> Please enquirer directly to Rick at ashevillecommunity dot org. Include
How 'bought it. Great place to live, horrible place to find work. You live here because you want to, work comes second - quality of life is first.
There were a few decent companies that hired design EEs around here. Almost all of them have folded or moved in the last 5 years or so or are about to go under. The few that are left are, for the most part, undesirable places to live. I struck out on my own 2 years ago when I couldn't put up with the BS at the place I was working (do mostly to bad management causing them to go under). It has been up and down but right now there are 4 of us with more work than we can handle just doing random contact design. We charge more than I need to live, and less than the big agencies so we seem to be doing good as folks want it done in the US but can't pay $150/hr.
All those relationships I built with Future and Avnet seem to be paying off (wish I could say the same for Arrow). Those companies seem to find us quite a bit of work from there existing regional customer base.
Hawker
Seriously, we've looked at ASheville as a possibility for that reason (weather too). Central Kentucky is still in first place, mostly because it's reasonably close to family. Asheville is a bit far (though not as far as Vermont ;-).
I retired a few months back because they canceled our project and I didn't like the alternatives (got a nice package too ;). All I have to do is get well (been sick for a couple of months) and get the house sold. Then we'll *have* to find someplace to live. ;-)
%150/hr is a lot of scratch! Our captive L&B rate was a bit over $100/hr. We found it pretty easy to find outstanding contractors for the same sort of money.
Cool! I love to hear success stories like yours.
-- Keith
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