Work for 2$ an hour as an independent contractor in a foreign country?

I saw this strange Blog entry from someone mentioning an US company which is *not hiring* US citizens. The post sounded like it was keeping a list of such companies! Anyway that sounded bad.

So I took a look at the job posting.

So here is my thought. Is there anyone willing to work as an independent contractor for 2$ an hour in Indonesia (yeah Bandung) developing a jabber.org/XMPP server; no relocation cost provided.

I am pretty sure if there is a willing and capable US citizen they would be happy to take him.

Any takers?

It continues to amuse me these haters and whiners over the ages. They love to whine and they love to hate!
In one age and time they hate the African-Americans, then some generation hates the American-Indians, some hates the Jews, some hates the Mexicans, some Republicans, some Democrats, some Moslems. And now its hate the Outsourcers! “These people are evil, taking our jobs!” Some moronic radio dj decides to bad-mouth some Indian lady and gets a kick out of it! What an Einstein!

I have a simple message for them. Have you looked at how many native people have lost their jobs, their means of livelihood and how many companies were shutdown due to the global presence of McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Coca-Cola, Pepsi etc.?
Globalization is a new paradigm. The old boundaries of countries are becoming more and more meaningless.
On a macro scale this brings equality in the world. No longer will American’s be the only Ritchie Rich’s of the world. There will be Europeans, Chinese, South-Asian and everybody else.

Let me narrate a personal story. Once working for a company (best company I ever worked for by all standards, we still communicate with each other long after the company dissolved due to dot-com burst and 9/11 aftermath) I met this guy. I will call him D. D loved to slack off, to spread rumors. The company was going through troubled times. He would be the one mostly slacking off and spreading the worst rumors while we were busting our rear-side. And he had very low productivity.

When the trimming time came obviously he was one of the first to let go. He joined another company, which was still in the afterglow of the dotcom bubble. Anyway 6 months down the lane he wrote me a rather accusing email that he is now training people in India who would ultimately replace him. I didn’t know whether to feel sorry for him or congratulate his employers for doing the right thing. He is definitely not an asset for any company. Outsourcing or not he would have been let go sooner or later. Such people can only survive in the nooks and hidden corners of large company where left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. When the going gets tough, they are the first to go. America is about innovative spirit about risk-taking. Lets do that again. I am positive American’s will be equally successful in the global village, where the world, the human race becomes more important than American’s or Canadian’s or Indian’s. It’s the losers who whine, winners move forward and win again and again and again in all circumstances.

After tsunami one of my ex-colleague posted an email showing several mutilation and torture pictures of some Chinese by Indonesians in a riot, few years back. He said something to the effect that despite that he donated some to the charity and his company donated some too. He questioned whether Chinese should donate for Indonesians!
Such is his hatred for people, for innocent women and children dying and dead in one of the worst natural calamities!

Let us all end this hatred of each other!

We all are humans. No race is superior to the other, despite what your momma or papa or anyone else may have taught you. No human is intrinsically different despite their sex, age, religious preferences, sexual preferences, color. Sooner all later we will all realize that. I have seen people from different countries, different races and different religions all my life. I couldn’t find anything different about them; same thoughts, mentality, emotions like love (yes hate too) were running through them. Have you seen any difference?
And as such all deserve to live more or less equally. It is not enough to live an opulent life while people die everyday of starvation in Ethiopia and thinking that donating few dollars to your favorite Christian charity is enough. Do more. Reach out for these people. They are your brothers and sisters.