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Seeing as he doesn't have a complete scope of work, I wouldn't jump to that conclusion quite yet. I bit off more than I could chew with a 6-person site when I was 23, and with some late nights I was able to slog through it. If(!) it opens up to multiple dealers, then he might be in over his head doing it solo (or at the very least, taking on temporary help until he can stabilize all the environments) but we don't know enough to say definitively that Stumpy's over his head.

Brace yourself, this is probably going to become a novel. The token asian's dead on, as usual. I'll elaborate a bit more, since this isn't that far off from how I got started. My start was doing IT services for a 6 person company however, not for a fully-functional dealership with branch opportunuties. If you and him can hammer out an agreement, you may have just hit on something that will last you a long, long time. First things first: you need to establish a scope of work. It's fine if that scope is simply "everything", but you need to get some sort of vision or idea of what they want to have done. Without that, you're flying into this completely blind and they are taking advantage of the fact that you're a hungry young kid who thinks he can do everything and is willing to work for peanuts to get the experience. GET A SCOPE OF WORK, and have it be as detailed as possible. If it is "everything", what does everything entail? Once you have a scope of work, you should be able to start breaking that down into implementation projects to fit their goals, piece by piece. Once you have those bite-sized projects, you should be able to figure out if you have the chops necessary to take it all down. Here's where the murky waters come in. If you're a quick study, then some working nights (and working mornings before the users show up) will probably be in your future, but you'll get the job done. If you're not, then serious downtime will result and you'll piss off your client. These aren't questions I can answer, only you can. You have to be honest with yourself, any bullshitting will only cause tension between you and your client, and having worked for car dealers before, they don't deal well with that kind of stuff. So now you have a scope of work, a idea of where the client wants to be, and you've broken down the scope into manageable projects that you're pretty confident you can bust out without pissing many people off. Now you need to figure out about how much time is it going to REASONABLY take you to bang these out? I may not be like a lot of other consultants, but if I needed 20 hours to do something that should have reasonably took 10 (because I was using the other 10 to research because I've never done it before), then I, personally, have a hard time charging for the full 20 hours and will probably charge 10-15. These are decisions you need to make for yourself. After that's done, and you have a estimate on how long it's going to take, THEN you can start talking about your hourly rate. If bennies is important to you, then it might behoove you to take a salary position. Again, this is something that you have to decide. If you're going to take salary, however, you better make damn sure you have some built-ins for on-call support. Or, it might be possible to do salary work and have the on-call be a extra hourly rate. With contracting, there aren't a lot of rules other than the ones you and the client draft for yourselves. I will say this on compensation, you don't get many merit raises when you're a contractor/consultant. Plan accordingly. From what you've said already this already sounds like a 25/hr position, and that's factoring in on-call work. All in all, make sure you're protected. Get everything in writing. Enjoy the ride, and work your ass off.

Yep, pass. Major deduction of points for the current owner not being able to tell you exactly what happened on the crash, how fast he was going, how much he tried to repair the damage, stuff like that. There will be others.

Yeah, they aren't bad. Dealnews I've found has a wider selection of stuff though.

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Yup.

My guess is it was a combination of going in too hot for the turn and target fixation.

dealnews.com. Keep trolling until you find a deal that matches your budget.

Just so I understand you correctly, you're ambivalent to gay marriage on personal terms ("whatever they do in their bedroom"), no issue with the civil side of things (which is what this whole thing has always been about), but you don't want them to get married so they, can't enjoy all the things you're so ambivalent about? I'll ask you this then, if it's "none of your business" what they do in the privacy of their own homes, how is your life personally affected or your quality of life diminished by gay people getting married? Your position is far from obvious.

I don't even understand how you get to that thought. Letting off the brake, leaning the shit out of it, and rolling the dice that you either lean too much and lowside or lean just enough and escape, or just saying fuck it, stand it up, and have a 100% chance of hitting the car in front of you. When I biffed on 79N in Newark, I chose option B knowing that the worst thing I was going to potentially hit was a guardrail. This guy is a grade A moron.

nothing wrong with a good swordfight every now and then

This seems contradictory. If the government doesn't need to be involved, then why do they have to create a definition for marriage at all? One would think that by virtue of the government's (and I'm painting broadly, federal and state) non-involvement, that the definition and institution of marriage would fall on the churches that started the concept in the first place. Your other points aren't without merit, though. It would be just as easy to allow non-married people to allow their partner to be included as next-of-kin, cover them under their insurance, give them medical or full power of attorney, stuff like that. However, as you said, that's not the world we live in, and the least we could do is allow equal rights to everyone within the constructs of the system we've created.

I look forward to the informed and rational discourse from the resident biblethumpers and bigots on OR.

Hot damn. I knew it was high, I had no idea it was 10X what I was spending.

I can't imagine what must have been going through the victim's mother's head when she got that phone call. I hope this asshole pays, and pays big.

Progressive charged me for min. coverage by year, not by month. If you pay 5-600/year for minimum motorcycle coverage, you either have lots of skeletons in your closet (and the way you ride, I don't doubt this in the least), or you're every bit of the rube I think you are. For even a OK driving record with 2 speeds and a sub-5K claim I was paying 150/yr for minimum coverage on a 2003 600RR. I expect gixxer rates to be MUCH higher.

stupid goddamn financial responsibility... Someone buy this.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: A GSXR will kill you just as easily there, squirt. If you want something you're not going to die on, get a trike.

He doesn't want any of those, he wants a supersport go-fast bike. This is all about style and not at all about substance, otherwise he'd be looking at a SV or a "standard Japanese" bike like the V-Strom. I think the reason why the V-Strom is in the dualsport category is because it's retardedly versatile and can handle anything you throw at it. This is probably why you don't see a ton of them on the secondary market. The term "adventure tourer" really applies better to this and some of the larger BMW's than the term "dual-sport" But again, we're just being pedantic. He don't want any of these things, he wants something that's not going to end up fitting him well (since he's probably never sat on it or anything like it in it's model line) but is in his wheel-house financially and looks cool. Exarch, it's your money, all I can tell you is that adding ergo's like rearsets, clipons, stuff like that is EXPENSIVE after the fact.

Forget it man, he already knows everything.

You should be ready for a literbike by Christmas, or if you hold out a bit longer, a ZX14 by April. Yeah, a 250. Get a trackday or two, push that thing to its limits then you'd be in a much better and more knowledgeable position to buy another bike.

It might have something to do with the fact that you're spamming some of your posts with a wall of text that doesn't have anything to do with the item you're selling. The search function is perfectly capable of finding your post without you dropping 200 "search tags". I'd have flagged it too.

Who said he sold it at that price?

since when did a perfectly good leghumping thread get shit on by pedantic bickering about turn entry speeds? you people are disappointing me.

That doesn't surprise me in the least. I can't imagine that in a city of almost a million, they couldn't find a handful of people that had played table games enough to have a firm grasp on what was going on. You or MJ feel like going just to screw around? I walked around a little but honestly I didn't do as much exploring as I wanted to.