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I find it really ironic actually just based on the names from those emailing me, but I think what you are experiencing is "head hunter trolling"... it seems like most of these folks are "work from home recruiters" who troll monster, dice, indeed, and the other job aggregation sites. I doubt they earn much in the way of commission, because most companies (at least from my experience) use the same online career software (can't remember the name of the company), but their might be one or two companies that have cornered the market... anyway the most annoying are these 6 month temp jobs or temp to perm jobs.. what software engineer wants to be "test driven" and then thrown away after the job is over? I guess when peoples' H1-B or student visa runs out -- they have to become a recruiter because they are ineligible to work? maybe that's what is happening.![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
David
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I'm in the same position (except I starting programming for a living forty years ago). I just need a couple of contracts to make it to retirement. I get all the same lame calls and emails that you do. I keep getting an ad for occupation therapists in Texas somewhere. (I'll forward it if you are interested.) Half the cold calls I get are from people who I cannot understand. I've started just ignoring them.
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This missive, and some of the author's follow on comments, are a little economically illiterate. All parties to a transaction boil down to two categories - HAS the box of money, and WANTS the box of money.
You're the person who WANTS the box of money in this, and since, unless you can, say, produce cold fusion, cash is always the most versatile commodity, you're the supplicant here.
In the end, it's arrogant to assume that you're such a demigod of your profession that you can expect the consideration you're demanding.
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... than a man with a mechanical calculator in four years. Interesting[^], but not exactly state of the art.
Esit: Of course they tried to Show off with the vector graphics, but this is still great for the time.
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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"full year" not four year
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Ok. The computer got four times faster and I have been sitting on my ears. 
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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He's using four year analysis?
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:groan:
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Dave, completely Off Topic. What was the new release RaspberryPi OS you mentioned the other day?
About to go pick up 2 new 512MB Model B to make OpenELEC to access Movies and TV shows from NAS using XBMC. That will leave my original 512MB Model B to piss about with Wheezy or whatever it is.
The older 2 x 256MB Model boxes will probably find use as SSH targets at a customer or relatives place to allow secure remote access without having to have a full size box running.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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"The other day"?
I can't think of any posts I have made about RasPi recently, the last must have been a few weeks ago The only thing I remember talking about lately was the GertBoard IO module for RasPi.
I just pick up my RasPi OS from the usual source: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads[^].
The NOOBS release was updated just last week.
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Must have been someone else. They mentioned a new version of Wheezy (or maybe something else) and said they were looking forward to getting to play with it when they got back home.
I thought it was you waiting to get back to shore. It may have been weeks agoi, but didn't my memory was that sh*t.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It was Eve Alpha RasPi wireless platform I was planning on playing with last time home. Never managed though, too much other stuff got in the way, like kids being on school mid-term holidays and having to keep them occupied!
That and the gertboard.
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Wow that's a real flash from the past, "1 million instructions/per second" blazing. 
modified 11-Nov-13 17:59pm.
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For those of you who's Googled by the keyword "architect sexy"[^] - it seems to reconfirm that architects really are sexy. After all, Google represents the collective knowledge of human being.
Then, why are we not? (I guess I understand this - they make things that are tangible)
So if you make tangible things it makes you sexy?
dev
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devvvy wrote: tangible
sorry but tangible & sexy will never match!
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Any person who thinks he is sex, is not.
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and any sex that thinks is male or female, is not.
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...and you can tell that immediately if they ever try to sing "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" at the drop of a karaoke mike... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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that makes me very sexy
dev
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Most architect (the building types) I know are good looking (both men and women).
They have a strange secy mix between an artist and a scientist.
I'd rather be phishing!
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devvvy wrote: Then, why are we not?
..it's the other way around; it's not being geeky that makes unsexy - it's unsexy that has a larger chance at becoming geeky.
It's a huge generalization of course, but the market would have been quite different if a certain mister Gates would have been a chick-magnet.
devvvy wrote: So if you make tangible things it makes you sexy?
Again, being sexy has an impact before you even choose a career-path. If it weren't, one would be able to become sexy by (part time) working as an architect.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Under no circumstances can I be even remotely considered to be sexy. My code, on the other hand, exudes an allure that causes most women to swoon. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: My code, on the other hand, exudes an allure that causes most women to swoon.
A fart, if done just right (i.e., the noxious gases that emanates from under my dogs tail - dear lord, how can such a small creature produce an odour that fills a room like that), also exudes something to cause most women to swoon.
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Gawd I wish I knew.
When Dij was a kitten, he was really tiny - he comfortably fit in a single hand.
But the smells he could "produce" - seemingly at will - filled the room with a noxious miasma that glued itself to your throat...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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