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How I Joined the Outsourcing Revolution Business Articles | May 2 Nike Air Max Vyprodej , 2005

Mention ?outsourcing? to a programmer and you may as well be uttering profanity. The word suggests all the evils that have befallen the Information Technology sector since the Internet bubble burst a few years ago. We?ve been endlessly regaled with tragic tales of American companies who have closed up shop for many of their I.T. positions, only to ?offshore? those same jobs to programmers overseas working for less pay than their American counterparts. A brain drain is taking place in the once highly secure computer programming profession.



Rather than cursing the darkness, however, I found myself recently lighting a candle (or making the problem worse, depending on your perspective). You see, just over six months ago Nike Air Max Levné , I joined the outsourcing revolution. I am therefore writing this article partly as a confession, my own personal ?mea culpa? of complicity.


No, I haven?t put myself up on the auction block to work for Indian rupees.


What I did was stumble upon several ?reverse auction? web sites for outsourcing talent. If you haven?t heard of them, they go by the name of Elance (the largest site to date) or Guru. Both of these sites give companies an opportunity to outsource their projects to freelance workers like programmers, graphic artists and writers. Freelancers from all over the world compete for open bid requests, offering to do these contract jobs for a fixed price.


I happened upon a site called Rentacoder. Unlike the two sites mentioned above http://www.levnebotynike.cz/ , Rentacoder didn?t require a subscription fee. Their take was a straightforward commission out of each project cost. Within minutes I posted my resume and profile. Then I had a choice to make. Which projects to bid on? In addition to programming projects, they also listed writing jobs as well. I decided to bid on some of the writing jobs first, just to see how it went, and because I had always wanted to do some freelance writing on the side.


Within my first week, I won a bid to write a document on Policies and Procedures. I completed that assignment