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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>hi Sammy,<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> they wonder why on earth should they give me such a rate when some other bozo is only asking for $30 an hour and he also claims to know how to program.<BR>
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I empatize with your issue, <I>and </I>on the receiving end of Drupal services, I have a similar one. I’ve been paying up to €50/hour to folks who claimed to be Drupal experts, who couldn’t do the job and when I hired them I had no idea what they really are capable to do. A couple of months and lot of wasted money later, I learned form the next programmer that the previous guy had no clue of what he was doing. That cycle has repeated 4 times, the next one always blaming the previous one of the messy state of our sites.<BR>
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I grew so desperate over this situation that I am considering abandoning the Drupal platform, where I am totally dependent on programmers and look for an alternative platform that I could maintain without technical knowledge. However, I have many Drupal-based sites and that would not be an easy to choice, neither. So I want to give it one more try. Given that I don’t know you, how can I get a sense that you are not one of the “other bozos” that you talked about?<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> I am looking for more work, but, as usual, not entirely sure how to find it.<BR>
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Well, maybe you’ve just one found one if you can answer my question above and if I can afford your fee. What I’m looking for is ongoing site maintenance, upgrades, customization, and light programming. If you, or anybody else is interested to explore that possibility, drop me a line.<BR>
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George</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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