Re: Mainframe Architect position-Indianapolis

Robert Wagner wrote:

On 12 Mar 2005 21:57:51 -0500, docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:




I haven't changed address in the past eight years, Mr Wagner... no, wait, that's not true... I moved across the street from an apartment to a condo five years back after living in the apartment for three years.


VERY IMPORTANT: contractors who don't play the per
diem tax game (most of them) are net losers. 

Whether to be a contractor is a lifestyle choice, not a financial
windfall. If you and YOUR DOMESTIC PARTNER want to live in a different
city every year, it's a good choice.

I've lived in the same city for the past eight years, Mr Wagner... once again, it seems our experiences are different. 


If you live in a place longer than 364 days, Uncle Sam says you've
constructively moved your tax home. You can't receive per diem in that
place. Uncle Sam encourages us to be transients. Absent the transient
tax break, are you still making more than employees?

Thinking back to Jacksonville FL, semi-weekly trips to Okefenokee come
to mind. What a magical place. It was like turning the clock back a
million years. While paddling a canoe, I expected to see dinosaurs.
Their brothers, alligators, swam under the boat. Sandhill cranes and
other tropical birds such as ibis were in evidence in thousands if not
millions. At Merrit Island, near Cape Canaveral, I followed a flight
of roseatte spoonbills for miles, drivng on dirt roads.

You can't get those experiences in the suburbs of Washington DC.

And that God for that! There are enough slithery creatures in DeeCee without adding actual reptiles.

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