In reply to WDC.

WordPress and coding have allowed me to do amazing things in my life. I got into working with this because I liked the idea of open source.

Nowadays, in our country at least, we see recruitment companies taking over the market for PHP jobs, etc. The result being that a lot of the things we believe are important in open source, are getting commercialized.

So, now you have people who don't know how to code, saying wle the latest trend is this code and this code, and you should learn that. When? Nobody's paying for it. So, you're expected to learn on your own time, and by the time that you learn it, everybody has switched.

We need a program to get talentend programmers jobs, and keep them educated on the job.

Not be the spill of corporate decisions to save 10 cents on the dollar by outsourcing to India, and back and forth.

That's not why I got into open source.

I'd rather just spent my time wirting code as a hobby. When I have time. With the open source community this has always worked.

By the way, I just wrote in because a lot that people are saying. We want to do well. We want to provide for our families. And we get got in this trap where were like, just work. And it'll solve itself. When at times we have to work smarter and not harder.

It's something to keep in mind. It's not easy. It's easy to forget at times. And we need good people around us, that watch out for us, and love us, just like we love them. It's not always about working harder and more. It's being there for the people around you, and to say it's o.k. today I'm just going to sit and enjoy the moment.

FInding the right balance.

I'm really this discussion is being held, and amazed by how many people are in the same situation.

"Talk is cheap show me the code"

LOL