RE: Job offers and rates - what do you feel is acceptable?

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

William Sherman wrote:

"Unfortunately, in many years of doing this, I have found almost no one who
was willing to up the rates if they liked me.

I always looked at these types as 'better than unemployment" and used them
for the same amount of time.  I usually found they were open because the
previous person had done the same thing."

Totally agree. There was a company where I last lived that was forever
searching for technical writers. The problem it turns out was they were in a
somewhat remote community (to larger cities) and the paid dirt....AND they
required you to move to their community within a three month period. Every
three months a new ad for a technical writer was posted on Dice, Monster,
and the local newspaper. As far as I know, they're still looking for that
"perfect fit."

Al Geist-Geist Associates
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