I was looking forward to working with an agency in town.  However, there was a delay in the go signal for a new project.  I don’t know about you, but no news has been bad news for me.

The guy says all future projects will go through RFP.  Remember, we aren’t talking big dollars here.  So that means eLance and the like where Asian programmers bid a dollar an hour for work, not having any idea what you are trying to do, but taking your money gladly.

I thought everyone did this 10 years ago and got killed.  Yes, the big guys still do this, but they have a full management presence in Asia.  They aren’t hiring out with a classified ad.  They are working with their own employees who happen to live in Asia.

I can’t compete at a few bucks an hour on any kind of work.  It’s really not clear the agency is big enough to withstand a few really bad outsourced projects.  If they are still around in 2 years maybe I can work with them then.  I know I will still be plugging away.