Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

Jeremy, did you think of writing a book on DI, TDD or unit testing on .NET platform?

"I thought about doing a more retrospective post on what I did wrong, and how I got into this mess in the first place."

Please do! I would love to read that.

going solo/indy has been great for me. I've done it an a hybrid way with a single main client at most times and some occasional smaller stuff. you really won't have a problem finding work. there's more and more telecommute stuff too. I'd suggest watching craigslist in additional to the usual places. also, using an rss reader to get postings is a great way to reduce effort in finding stuff. I can suggest places to look or subscribe to rss.

Welcome back to Austin, Jeremy.  Sorry things didn't work out at your latest employer.  If you want to be perm, I'd love to talk to you.

I think you will like being a free agent.  There are plenty of benifits.  

@jeremy: nothing better than getting out from under a soul-crushing, oppressive organization to help you feel a little better. Worry not, Im sure someone of your caliber will be in high-demand.

Jeremy,

I thought you just started this job.  I would also like to read what went wrong.

"I thought you just started this job.  I would also like to read what went wrong."

Same here. I'm really curious to hear what happened. Give it to us Jeremy; I'm sure your insight will be invaluable to the rest of us.

And I'm so sorry it didn't work out man. But you're a top notch developer so I know you'll land on your feet just fine.

I'll second the comment that going solo is the way to go. Someone with a lot of talent has not problem picking up contracts and you get to work on your own schedule. If your mortgage lender has a problem with it, then you really need to get another lender who does the work they're paid for.

congrats. It's always invigorating getting out of a bad situation.

~L

Introduction Today was my last day with my current former employer, as you may have heard from my (also

"If you find out that the previous development staff all left at the same time, run away.  Run far away!"

"You've got to meet in person more than once."

Boy, do these two hit the bulls eye.  I normaly say, dou to experience,  that if they want to hire you after the first interview, or even in the first interview, that you should decline.  The last employee probably left for one of the following reasons:

* Huge amount of unfinished work

* Bad working conditions

* Lots of overtime

* Not much pay

One question I have for everyon here is what qualifies as high turnover?