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How to Become an IT Expert Companies Seek Out and Pay Well (Video)
This video is an interview with Matt Heusser, who makes a good living as an independent IT consultant. He says many other people who are currently pounding out code or performing other routine computer-oriented tasks can become independent, too. He's not selling a course or anything here, just passing on some advice to fellow Slashdot readers. He's written up some of this advice in a series of four articles: Getting People to Throw Money At You; How to become IT Talent; That Last Step to Become ‘Talent’ In IT; and The Schwan’s Solution. He also gave a speech last November titled Building your reputation through creative disobedience. (The link is to a 50 minute video of that speech.) Anyway, we figure quite a few Slashdot readers are at least as smart as Matt and may want to take some career steps similar to the ones he has taken. In today's video, he gives you some ideas about how to stop being an IT worker and how to become IT talent instead.
Capitalism depends on the unrestricted flow of capital, equipment, and expertise. I'm always amused that employers are all for being able to hire and fire people at will, but piss all over themselves in fear when people demand to see what other employees make.
Nobody is likely to become a competitor based on a slashdot post. Any number of people are likely to purchase something from his site based on a slashdot post (he is, in fact, selling things, despite your claim to the contrary). Nothing wrong with people buying his stuff or him advertising, but it feels pretty sleazy in this context.