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The first is the amount of unpaid work I can put in on a lead before I must have some payment if I have not decided to do the work on some other basis. | The first is the amount of unpaid work I can put in on a lead before I must have some payment if I have not decided to do the work on some other basis. | ||
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I am just a single struggling worker so I am forced to spend no more time on a lead than a rational expectation of closing and completing a job indicates is justified. Necessarily there will be some misappraisal and some potential biz will be lost, that's the way free markets work. I started my professional programming career as a junior engineer in a division of a conglomerate that was a subcontractor to IBM in the acquisition and award phases of a contract for the modernization of the </html>[[:en:Air Force Satellite Control Facility|Air Force Satellite Control Facility]]<html> that spanned two years. <br/><br/>I am risk averse however and I also am loathe to perform work for nothing in this era, in which one must work very fast, in requirements <a style="text-align: left;float: right;" | |||
I am just a single struggling worker so I am forced to spend no more time on a lead than a rational expectation of closing and completing a job indicates is justified. Necessarily there will be some misappraisal and some potential biz will be lost, that's the way free markets work. I started my professional programming career as a junior engineer in a division of a conglomerate that was a subcontractor to IBM in the acquisition and award phases of a contract for the modernization of the </html>[[:en:Air Force Satellite Control Facility|Air Force Satellite Control Facility]]<html> that spanned two years. <br/><br/>I am risk averse however and I also am loathe to perform work for nothing in this era, in which one must work very fast, in requirements analysis and design. This doesn't mean I won't do it, but the party requesting such unpaid service must be such that I can be reasonably sanguine about the aforementioned expectation, as Litton and IBM were because they knew the Federal Government had already decided to award IBM the contract. For that reason the IBM team was willing to spend maybe a million or so to get an award worth billions. | href=https://juan.ai-integration.biz/everything/index.pl?node_id=1109><img height=300 src=https://meansofproduction.biz/images/img333-5434-10.png></a>analysis and design. This doesn't mean I won't do it, but the party requesting such unpaid service must be such that I can be reasonably sanguine about the aforementioned expectation, as Litton and IBM were because they knew the Federal Government had already decided to award IBM the contract. For that reason the IBM team was willing to spend maybe a million or so to get an award worth billions. | ||
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