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  • A recruiter mailed me -- unlike the last 1,000 recruiter emails, it was intelligently written and persuasive. It earned a reply. But which reply... I don't want to just say "no". Any reasonable offer will be considered. But I don't want to flop back to full-time work again as my consulting is starting to stabilize again. Last time was a disaster. But I'm really not making a living wage now...

    Anyway, for posterity, here's what I have as a reply... I'll probably tone it down a bit before I send it, but

    • And now the reply looks like this:

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      It's true. I'm spoiled rotten as a consultant. A company would have to make
      me quite an offer to lure me away from this. But I'm open to offers. I'm not
      interested in more money than I have time to use. What good is a fat salary
      if you can't ski on it?

      Working in a company, there's no prospect of getting your work done and then
      taking the rest of the day or week off. The primary incentive is missing --
      finishing. You have no veto over ill-concieved
      • You are so right. Programming is *not* pressing the buttons on your keyboard from 8am until 6pm. Programming is creativity, thinking, and then a very small amount of doing. If your hands hurt from a day of programming, you are doing something seriously wrong.

        I call this process (of 40 hour typing sessions) "bugging", since the inevitable result is 10 hours to "bug" something and 100 hours to debug it.

        "Bugs are inevitable. All software sucks."

        Sure, when you have a bugger writing your software instead of
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