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Re: everybody's talking, but no one hears a word

To: mgs@Autox.Team.Net, doug russell <dr-doug@msn.com>
Subject: Re: everybody's talking, but no one hears a word
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:08:23 +0000
doug russell wrote:
> 
> Kai,
> 
> I'm not sure I would give you the work either - something about child labor-
> I'm sure my lawyer would advise me to stay away from entering a contract with
> a minor  -  So, I'm not sure that the reason you did not get the job is
> because of your youth - more likely it had to do with your age!
> 
> Dr. Doug
> 69 C Rdst
> 69 C GT
> 69 B Rdst
> 71 B GT
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   owner-mgs@autox.team.net  On Behalf Of Kai  Radicke
> Sent:   Tuesday, April 22, 1997 6:58 PM
> To:     thomas_pokrefke@juno.com; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject:        Re: everybody's talking, but no one hears a word
> 
> Let me add some more to my previous message:
> 
> It is the MAJORITY of people who think this way, in the past few minutes
> I have thought of several examples of older people thinking I was less
> capable
> or less knowledgable.  MG, TR, AH, JAG, Chevy, Ford, IBM, Apple, etc.
> These
> people all think the same way.
> 
> A few months ago, I was asked to design a website for Computer CO. in
> Calif.
> Anyway every thing was ok until the owner of the co. visited my site and
> found
> out I was 15.  Well I don't know why that made a difference, I talked to
> him on
> the phone and he didn't realize it then (I have excellent verbal skills).
> He didn't
> realize it in the way I designed sites.  It was the sentence "Kai Radicke
> is 15"
> and then he saw my picture.  Gee, it is a rather nice photo also.  I am
> waring
> a baseball cap, a polo shirt and I have my sports trophies in the
> backround.
> 
> He had contacted several other Internet Development companies also.  I
> quoted
> him a price of $5000 for a full commerce ready site.  That covered
> graphics, programming,
> CGI, HTML, layout, etc.  Well I know my price was very low, I know this
> because at that
> time the average hourly wage for HTML was ~ $65, I was charging $35.
> Pretty damn good,
> if you ask me.  The site required a ton of work and my estimate was that it
> would be
> well over 100 pages big.  It is currently it is well over 120, and I could
> have done a better job.
> 
> The employee that was in charge of heading the website project told me over
> the phone:
> How much can you know about HTML, you are only 15, what experience do you
> have.
> Anyway i banged off a few sites I had done work on.....and he said he would
> check back.
> Well anyway, he never did...I got an email a few days later, thanking me
> for my quote and it was CCed
> to 4 other Web design houses, so I quickly checked out each site, and from
> their sites
> I quickly deduced the only reason I didn't get the job was becuase I was
> 15.  I had
> the best prices, I have the ability, I have the experience......but that
> didn't matter.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kai M. Radicke -- mowogmg@dynanet.com
> 1966 MGB -- http://www.dynanet.com/~mowogmg/mg.htm
> 
> Webmaster -- webking@bigfoot.com
> Dialogue Internet -- http://www.dynanet.com/~mowogmg/isp/default.htm
> 

Didn't stop Ettore Bugatti being contracted to produce his first car for
de Dietrich before he was 21.  His father had to sign the papers.

PaulH.



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