Posting a Profile

Hi Sowpub Readers,

When I complete the text part of my profile and want to submit the final text how do I post it? I was looking for a submit/post/enter type button but didn't see it. What am I doing wrong?

Mitch Austin


http://www.heartattacksolutions.com

Hi,

You click the Edit Your Profile button.

I found it non-intuitive myself. I was expecting a chance to preview the Profile, but it just gets created. Of course, you can always make changes using the Edit function.

Best,

-Boyd

> Hi Sowpub Readers,

> When I complete the text part of my profile
> and want to submit the final text how do I
> post it? I was looking for a
> submit/post/enter type button but didn't see
> it. What am I doing wrong?

> Mitch Austin

> Hi,

> You click the Edit Your Profile button.

> I found it non-intuitive myself. I was
> expecting a chance to preview the Profile,
> but it just gets created. Of course, you can
> always make changes using the Edit function.

> Best,

> -Boyd

Thanks Boyd, i'll give it a try.

Mitch




http://www.heartattacksolutions.com

Mitch,

Thanks for adding your bio.... You have a very touching story.... I hope you can make your dream come true!

I don't know if this option would be open to you, but here are a couple of true stories of some people I know.... How they get paid MORE, and can work LESS, than an equivalent person in their position who's an employee.... Just some possible ideas for everyone here.... :)

Being a physicist, I also know others with a physics background. A lot of physicists end up working in other areas, and one of the biggest areas physicists end up going into is computer programming....

I've observed two approaches. The first approach is simply to get a job as a programmer.... This is what most physicists who become programmers do....

The second approach is to become a contractor, and contract your work out. I've met two people who have done this, and it seems like it's worked out great for them.... (Both of them are based in Melbourne, Australia, though one of them also regularly travels to Sydney for one of his clients....)

For one thing, they get paid more than those who become employees get paid. MUCH more.

Here's another second benefit.... One guy I know told me that he's been working, on contract, for the same company now for two years. In that sense, he's like a highly-paid employee....

But where he's different is his hours are much more flexible. For example, he told me that recently, he felt like taking a day off, so he told the company that he'd be taking a day off of work. You generally can't do that if you're an employee (without pretending to be sick).

But he can do that.... The reason is because the company he "works" for actually employs his *company's services* (not him directly), then his own company employs him. So, since he's his own employer, he can do this....

So not only does he get paid more, he has more flexible working arrangements too....

Another guy I know, who is also a physicist-turned-programmer, also has the same set up. He has his own company, which contracts out his programming services, and he's the sole employee of his company. He also gets the same benefits....

He's currently in a long distance relationship (in his personal life), and he's arranged to take a month off of work to spend time with his loved one. He can arrange to do this, because of he is really an employee of his own company, which contracts out his programming services.... It would have been much harder to arrange to do this if he was a standard employee, rather than a contractor....

When I compare these guys to the others I know who just have standard computer programming jobs, it seems clear to me which of them have the better deal....

If you are in a field which is open to possible contract work or consultant work, then this kind of arrangement could be open to you too.... (I'd check with others who are doing it, though, first, to get the low-down on how it works in your field....)

Anyway, just floating around some ideas.... :)

- Dien