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01-10-2013

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Most of my career, over 95%, was as a self-employed person.

The formula is quite simple:

Honest, integrity, professionalism and honor above all.
Strong, current, relevant technical skills - always learning
Flexible, adaptive, and considerate to others and ideas
Hourly wages should be high enough for you to pay your own benefits, etc.

I also have a lot of experience on the other side of the equation, hiring contractors. I can tell you, for a fact, it is nearly impossible to find honest technical contractors who don't lie and fake their resume and references. In some countries, it is almost like resume cheating is the subculture norm.

I've even tried hiring "by the job" to do simple tasks like program some small code in PHP or HTML; and it is nearly impossible to get someone who can do a 1 hour job in less than three days or even weeks, LOL.

I've read so many "super duper" resumes, experts in this and that; but when I ask to just demonstrate some simple coding skills, the candidate falls apart with excuse after excuse.

So, to be a great contractor and make money is easy; if you are honest, skillful and all the things mentioned above.

Too many people are looking for shortcuts, they will lie and cheat and fake their skills on their resume and they struggle all their career. The people who just do the work, learn the skills, become experts, real experts, not fake ones; find that contracting is very easy (and rewarding!) and the money will flow and you will have a good life.

It's easy... their are no shortcuts, only hard work, honesty and integrity.

Without honor, all is lost.

Neo

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xml::rss::headline::perljobs

XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			 XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs(3pm)

NAME

       XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs - XML::RSS::Headline Example Subclass

VERSION

       2.2

SYNOPSIS

       You can also subclass XML::RSS::Headline to provide a 'multiline' RSS headline based on additional information inside the RSS Feed.  Here
       is an example for the Perl Jobs (jobs.perl.org) RSS feed by simply passing in the "hlobj" class name.

	   use XML::RSS::Feed;
	   use XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs;
	   use LWP::Simple qw(get);

	   my $feed = XML::RSS::Feed->new(
	       name  => "perljobs",
	       url   => "http://jobs.perl.org/rss/standard.rss",
	       hlobj => "XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs",
	   );

	   while(1) {
	       $feed->parse(get($feed->url));
	       print $_->headline . "
" for $feed->late_breaking_news;
	       sleep($feed->delay);
	   }

       Here is the output from rssbot on irc.perl.org in channel #news (which uses these modules)

	   <rssbot>  + Part Time Perl
	   <rssbot>    Brian Koontz - United States, TX, Dallas
	   <rssbot>    Part time, Independent contractor (project-based)
	   <rssbot>    http://jobs.perl.org/job/950

MUTAITED METHOD

       $headline->item( $item )

       Init the object for a parsed RSS item returned by XML::RSS.

AUTHOR

       Jeff Bisbee, "<jbisbee at cpan.org>"

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-xml-rss-feed at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=XML-RSS-Feed>.  I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress
       on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

	   perldoc XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs

       You can also look for information at:

       * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
	   <http://annocpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

       * CPAN Ratings
	   <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/XML-RSS-Feed>

       * RT: CPAN's request tracker
	   <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-RSS-Feed>

       * Search CPAN
	   <http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Special thanks to Rocco Caputo, Martijn van Beers, Sean Burke, Prakash Kailasa and Randal Schwartz for their help, guidance, patience, and
       bug reports. Guys thanks for actually taking time to use the code and give good, honest feedback.

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright 2006 Jeff Bisbee, all rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       XML::RSS::Feed, XML::RSS::Headline, XML::RSS::Headline::Fark, XML::RSS::Headline::UsePerlJournals, POE::Component::RSSAggregator

perl v5.8.8							    2006-07-17					 XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs(3pm)