Programming
After building up and managing a translation agency for a decade, basically just forwarding files and other management, it occurred to me that I could do the same with other types of work, such as programming, web design, typing/transcription, graphic design, even hand drawn art scanned in and transferred over the internet. So I started advertising for these types of personnel as well.
With the expansion of my translating agency, and occasionally getting very large projects (such as 5 million words from 11 languages into English for Dupont, accomplished within 3 months), I learned ways to automate things and increase my capacity. But since I prefer my own personal freedom, I naturally moved towards setting up a virtual office without internal employees (demo here from the perspective of the Administrator's account). A virtual office where project managers can comfortably log in from different time zones to create a 24/7 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) agency. The rest is in my head and we are working on developing things further. The eventual plan would have a system where the work performed by project managers could be recorded. They could get a base salary and/or commission/percentage of active projects. The percentage level could get modified from the default for particular project - such as for large and fast profit producing projects which require extra attention. So I could double up on employees, with extra backup and a different bonus/payment system (and many more ideas which I want to develop <make link?> . Meanwhile, on the other end, the project managers etc. logging in could work from the ease of their home, or on a time zone schedule convenient for them while feasible for us. Casual harmony. People working out of their home, in Siberia or wherever (obviously for much lower wages [we can charge from
10/USD hour for the work required to put this entire website together] than other areas - even if from the comfort of their rural home), for a much lower rate than someone who has to commute two hours a day in the dense city smog.With the below details, you can log into our translator/HR application form/database (to view a demo version of the Active Tenders section from the perspective of the administrator, click here).
Username: customer
Password: login
Or you can set up your own account by filling in the personal details and pressing Continue.
This system was written in dbase by a programmer located in Siberia, Russia. It is a bit slower <state speed> .
After that there is the Active Projects system, which was written in MySQL. Changes (including new accounts) made to the translator/HR database get updated every half an hour to the Active Projects system.