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		<title>The Trademan&#039;s Entrance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write this as I wait for my builder to arrive at my house. If I treated my profession like a tradesman, you wouldn&#8217;t have a website. Here&#8217;s why: I will arrive early at your office. Nobody is there to let me in, but I&#8217;m still &#8220;on site&#8221;, so I&#8217;m still leaving at 4:30; If [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I write this as I wait for my builder to arrive at my house.<br />
If I treated my profession like a <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tradesman" title="definition of a tradesman for Americans" target="_blank">tradesman</a>, you wouldn&#8217;t have a website. Here&#8217;s why:<span id="more-14"></span></p>
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<li>I will arrive <em>early</em> at your office. Nobody is there to let me in, but I&#8217;m still &#8220;on site&#8221;, so I&#8217;m still leaving at 4:30;</li>
<li>If you ask me to come in a bit later the following day, I will arrive an additional hour late just to be sure, or possibly to teach you a lesson;</li>
<li>When we discuss the project, I will use words you don&#8217;t understand. When you ask me to clarify, I&#8217;ll just repeat the same words again, until you get embarrassed enough to stop asking;</li>
<li>The less you understand about my job, the less respect I will give you, and the less helpful I will be;</li>
<li>If you aren&#8217;t running the right software, God help you! I did say &#8211; briefly over the phone a few weeks ago, possibly;</li>
<li>If you had recently hired another developer, I will be sure to slag off their work and give you totally different information than you got from them;</li>
<li>If the previous developer was from another country I will make racist slurs assuming that you are probably as comfortable with that as I am;</li>
<li>I&#8217;ll decide when the job is finished. You can disagree, but I&#8217;ll do my best to intimidate you into saying everything is fine so I can get to the pub;</li>
<li>You will pay me in <em>cash</em> as I am walking out the door on my last day. No 30 day nonsense. And I may not have an invoice &#8220;on me&#8221;, but I&#8217;ll promise to drop one in sometime;</li>
<li>If the project takes longer, or is more difficult than expected, <strong>I will not work late &#8211; you&#8217;ll just have to wait</strong>!</li>
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<p>I am now late for work. Sans builder. But I&#8217;m sure it will be fine when I get home at 8pm.</p>
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