I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US. Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? - Doug.
Most of the Asterisk work I have found out and about is either done by internal staff or by companies wanting work done by external contractors. Like you, I have found very little in the way of full time jobs for 'asterisk people' PaulH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Garstang" <dgarstang@oneeighty.com> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>; "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:47 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs> I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems tobe pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US.> > Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for Ciscoand other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places?> > - Doug. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----> _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
I think it would be biggest is in consulting. The people that refuse or cant to pay for call manager or Avaya's one. Example asterisk & sugarcrm.com they work together. Thats really good to sell. They arent in monster.ca they are banging on doors making $. Make a buch of pre setup asterisk configs that would be most popular make marketing material, dump on website. go in trade shows. Demo and make $ Steve kalcevich Douglas Garstang wrote:>I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US. > >Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > >- Doug. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >
If you try to compare Asterisk to other PBX's TODAY, Asterisk is running somewhere close to 0%. Its simply too new still as most companies didn't even begin taking a look until version 1.0 and even more with 1.2. Of course this will change over time. We are selling several systems a month right now. So if you are looking at getting a job today, it may be a little rough, but if you spend the next year honing your Asterisk skills more and more positions will open up. Kerry Garrison Director of Technical Services Tech Data Pros - Orange County's Mobile IT Service Provider (949) 502-7819 x200 - kerryg@techdatapros.com http://www.techdatapros.com> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of > Douglas Garstang > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 3:48 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion; > Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs > > I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring > Asterisk seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, > monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more > than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US. > > Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of > opportunities for Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... > GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or > am I just looking in the wrong places? > > - Doug. > >
Asterisk is still virtually unknown to endusers. The only reason why it's even a blip on the radar of PBX manufacturers is because how quickly the community is growing, and how feature rich the system is already. The biggest threat is that it is free and not proprietary which totally flies in the face of the whole tradition of the greedy industry. They see what happened to the music industry when it moved too slowly and did not anticipate the market paradigm shift. 3com seems to have knowledge and insight into the future, at least that is my take on the V3000. A 1U IP PBX with one FXS port and four FXOs at a slightly higher price to a decent Asterisk box. I could easily sell one of these boxes to an end user for slightly more than a comparable Asterisk rig based on name recognition, the fact that they can call any number of dealers in the area for support, the GUI, and the nice glossy brochures! If I demo the system, it is a no-brainer for the bean counters, the suits, and even the overburdened techs. Of course I would mention that the system is very expandable and all you have to do is plug in a phone and it will be ready to go automagically. What I would leave out is the fact that if, lets say you wanted to upgrade to a T1/E1 you would have to buy a different several U sized chassis and a card that will probably set them back about $4k or so. Also, I would not mention that they were locked into 3com phones and that besides the high price of the phone, they will need to also buy a license for it to work. I think I read that Digium did something like $20 or $80 million in business last year (obviously I am not sure of the figure but it was impressive and more than I would have guessed for them). That is a nice chunk of change, but it is chump change to the overall PBX industry. It is like the penny that someone drops and doesn't even bother to pick up. Looking quickly, I found this reference, "The PBX market at $13.2 billion in 2002 is forecast to reach $17.9 billion by 2008 during the forecast period." http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=34161 . It is no wonder why you see very few jobs listed for Asterisk skilled workers compared to the real market share holders. The numbers just aren't there. There are plenty of consultants around the globe that can SSH into a box on the other side of the world and configure it. If I was in the market to hire an Asterisk consultant, I would watch the list and see who knows what the heck they are talking about and has a good attitude or I would look at the wiki. So far I have a few guys I would call on if I needed some work done that I know would be high quality. I would call on Nicolas Gudino (the creator of AMP), Darren Wiebe (who knows all about pre-paid, post paid, and what I am especially looking forward to, the integration of OSCommerce to his platform, or the Coalescent Systems guys. I have some others but I keep them secret so they are available when I need them. I also have a feeling that most Asterisk jobs are self created. Will Asterisk get a chunk of the market share? Probably some years down the road but I will not hold my breath. Not until there is something similar to the marketing, documentation, sales channels, and name recognition. None of this will be easy since anyone can learn Asterisk and start a company. It is not like NEC for instance, where there can only be so many distributors in an area and they must be certified. If they screw up, they lose their distributorship. The Open Source business model makes it almost impossible to emulate the same type of marketing, sales, and business model. Thanks, Steve I am going to cross post this to the biz list, since that is really where it belongs.> > Most of the Asterisk work I have found out and about is either done by > internal staff or by companies wanting work done by externalcontractors.> > Like you, I have found very little in the way of full time jobs for > 'asterisk people' > > PaulH > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Douglas Garstang" <dgarstang@oneeighty.com> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>; "Asterisk Users Mailing List - > Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:47 AM > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs > > > > I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asteriskseems to> be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc,I> was > surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities withAsterisk> throughout the US. > > > > Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for > Cisco > and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonderif> demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > > > > - Doug. > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ --> -- > ---- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Douglas Garstang wrote:> I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US. > > Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? >I think that the Asterisk customer profile can shed some light on this. If you are a big company, you'll buy into an expensive system because you can afford it and rely on it. If you are a small company, you will look to Asterisk as an inexpensive way to set up your telephone system. You will also likely have staff that is willing to work with it and not enough money or need to hire external consultants exclusively for Asterisk. You may have a telecom or networking consultant that will put together the network and set up the system but Asterisk is a small piece of it. I'd say Asterisk is more of a "plus" in a job description but not a "requirement".
Thanks all for the replies. I started working for a CLEC a few months ago and we've chosen to implement Asterisk. I'm not sure if the fact that my boss is an open source advocate is a good thing or not... ie yes it's great to work with Asterisk and see all the features coming together (especially with Polycom phones). On the other hand I wonder how useful this experience will really be. I see a lot of VOIP jobs requiring Cisco experience. I worked with VOIP back in 1998, for a global VOIP wholesaler called OzEmail Interline in Australia before there where any standards... before SIP even. Until a few months ago I was working with SAN's and storage. Anywho... Doug. -----Original Message----- From: Robert La Ferla [mailto:robertlaferla@comcast.net] Sent: Sat 1/7/2006 8:56 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs Douglas Garstang wrote: > I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US. > > Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > I think that the Asterisk customer profile can shed some light on this. If you are a big company, you'll buy into an expensive system because you can afford it and rely on it. If you are a small company, you will look to Asterisk as an inexpensive way to set up your telephone system. You will also likely have staff that is willing to work with it and not enough money or need to hire external consultants exclusively for Asterisk. You may have a telecom or networking consultant that will put together the network and set up the system but Asterisk is a small piece of it. I'd say Asterisk is more of a "plus" in a job description but not a "requirement". _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Doug, I think that most companies dont know much about asterisk. Thier current PBX works for them and they believe in "if aint broken dont fix it". The only ones that seem to know about it are people that are currently working as IT or PBX people and they came across asterisk one way or another. (In other words it isnt really known out there yet.) Also a lot of people will be skeptical. I think the solutions is to brain storm and come up with ideas and sell it your self. I know for me and a friend of mine we are starting several small bussiness's based around asterisk. Eventually asterisk will get out there. When that happens companies will be scrambling for Asterisk tech's. The ones with the most knowledge will be us and it will serve as a benefit to us. Regards, Dovid PS Sorry about the spelling mistakes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060108/d3f045b5/attachment.htm
Well, I sure hope it becomes enormous! I moved from Los Angeles to a certain city that shall remain nameless a few months ago to work for a CLEC. I've realised that while I love working with Asterisk, I simply can't remain in this city (waaaay to small) and would like to return to LA. I'm trying to work out the value of remaining in a city I don't like much in order to gain experience. Architecting a VOIP solution for a CLEC would certainly look great on a resume. However, in several months time when my commitment with them is up, if I can't find an Asterisk related job back in LA, what's the point? I might as well cut my losses now and try (it ain't gonna be easy... I have to pay these guys back their relocation assistance etc) getting a Unix Admin job back in LA again. Doug -----Original Message----- From: Hans Witvliet [mailto:hwit@a-domani.nl] Sent: Sun 1/8/2006 3:50 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:58 +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: > Douglas Garstang a ?crit : > Actually, I've found Asterisk to be a great experience. Not so much > because of the product itself (which is already great), but because of > the level of accessibility and the community around it. > > Asterisk drastically lowers barriers of entry in the field of commercial > telephony systems. Besides, the wiki, the mailing list and the IRC > channels make it relatively easy to get started with the system. This > "no-pointy-clicky no-brainer interface" actually allows you to gain more > in-depth knowledge about telephony and VoIP. > I can second that. The (possible) impact of * on the pbx market could be enormous. I worked for nearly two decades for the largest telco manufacturer, and have seen some of the limitations a large company implies. With pbx's, on small systems had just basic predefined dial-plans with limmited features. On large systems, customers had to pay dearly for any add-on feaures. Much was possible, but as there was no paying customer, lots of things never left the design-department. Personnaly, i would dare compare it with the impact Linux has on the UNIX-community. It used to be closed, limited and high priced. Now, distro's come with truck full of tools and applications one could only dream of. On *, it seems that your imagination is the only limitation. You ARE capable of changing the behaviour yourself. (Or actually you have to define the entire behaviour ;-)) Besides OOo, i think it is the best open-source product... Perhaps it has little impact when looking for a specifc job, but you shurely can learn a lot! HW -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Consulting is fine, as long as I'm working for someone else. Setting up my own company etc isn't really what I'm looking for. I don't want the risk. If there aren't actual companies offering good paying positions, then there's really no opportunities for me. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Kalcevich [mailto:lists@ciscokid.net] Sent: Sat 1/7/2006 7:12 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs I think it would be biggest is in consulting. The people that refuse or cant to pay for call manager or Avaya's one. Example asterisk & sugarcrm.com they work together. Thats really good to sell. They arent in monster.ca they are banging on doors making $. Make a buch of pre setup asterisk configs that would be most popular make marketing material, dump on website. go in trade shows. Demo and make $ Steve kalcevich Douglas Garstang wrote: >I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US. > >Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > >- Doug. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Consulting is fine, as long as I'm working for someone else. Setting up my own company etc isn't really what I'm looking for. I don't want the risk. If there aren't actual companies offering good paying positions, then there's really no opportunities for me. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Kalcevich [mailto:lists@ciscokid.net] Sent: Sat 1/7/2006 7:12 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs I think it would be biggest is in consulting. The people that refuse or cant to pay for call manager or Avaya's one. Example asterisk & sugarcrm.com they work together. Thats really good to sell. They arent in monster.ca they are banging on doors making $. Make a buch of pre setup asterisk configs that would be most popular make marketing material, dump on website. go in trade shows. Demo and make $ Steve kalcevich Douglas Garstang wrote: >I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US. > >Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > >- Doug. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
I am not sure why you are looking for jobs doing Asterisk work when less than two weeks ago you were publicly bashing on the list. Steve> > Consulting is fine, as long as I'm working for someone else. Settingup my> own company etc isn't really what I'm looking for. I don't want therisk.> If there aren't actual companies offering good paying positions, then > there's really no opportunities for me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Kalcevich [mailto:lists@ciscokid.net] > Sent: Sat 1/7/2006 7:12 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Cc: > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs > > > > I think it would be biggest is in consulting. The people thatrefuse> or > cant to pay for call manager or Avaya's one. Example asterisk & > sugarcrm.com they work together. Thats really good to sell. They > arent > in monster.ca they are banging on doors making $. > > Make a buch of pre setup asterisk configs that would be mostpopular> make marketing material, dump on website. go in trade shows.Demo> and make $ > > > Steve kalcevich > > Douglas Garstang wrote: > > >I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk > seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster,careerbuilder> etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities > with Asterisk throughout the US. > > > >Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunitiesfor> Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). Iwonder> if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > > > >- Doug. > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > >Asterisk-Users mailing list > >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Who? me? :) -----Original Message----- From: Steve Totaro [mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com] Sent: Sun 1/8/2006 8:53 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs I am not sure why you are looking for jobs doing Asterisk work when less than two weeks ago you were publicly bashing on the list. Steve > > Consulting is fine, as long as I'm working for someone else. Setting up my > own company etc isn't really what I'm looking for. I don't want the risk. > If there aren't actual companies offering good paying positions, then > there's really no opportunities for me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Kalcevich [mailto:lists@ciscokid.net] > Sent: Sat 1/7/2006 7:12 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Cc: > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs > > > > I think it would be biggest is in consulting. The people that refuse > or > cant to pay for call manager or Avaya's one. Example asterisk & > sugarcrm.com they work together. Thats really good to sell. They > arent > in monster.ca they are banging on doors making $. > > Make a buch of pre setup asterisk configs that would be most popular > make marketing material, dump on website. go in trade shows. Demo > and make $ > > > Steve kalcevich > > Douglas Garstang wrote: > > >I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk > seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder > etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities > with Asterisk throughout the US. > > > >Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for > Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder > if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > > > >- Doug. > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > >Asterisk-Users mailing list > >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Thanks Cory. Awesome... and their in LA too. They'll be hearing from me. :) -----Original Message----- From: Cory Andrews [mailto:cory@voipsupply.com] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:08 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs Fonality just received an influx of capital, you can read about it here. http://gigaom.com/2006/01/09/fonality/ Cory Andrews Purchasing Manager ++++++++++++++++++ VOIPSupply.com A Division of b2 Technologies 454 Sonwil Drive Buffalo, NY 14225 ++++++++++++++++++++ direct - 716.250.3402 mobile - 716.907.4054 email - Cory@VOIPSupply.com AIM - b2Cory ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Garstang" <dgarstang@oneeighty.com> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>; "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:17 AM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs> Who? me? :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Totaro [mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com] > Sent: Sun 1/8/2006 8:53 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Cc: > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs > > > > I am not sure why you are looking for jobs doing Asterisk work when less > than two weeks ago you were publicly bashing on the list. > > Steve > > > > > Consulting is fine, as long as I'm working for someone else. Setting > up my > > own company etc isn't really what I'm looking for. I don't want the > risk. > > If there aren't actual companies offering good paying positions, then > > there's really no opportunities for me. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steven Kalcevich [mailto:lists@ciscokid.net] > > Sent: Sat 1/7/2006 7:12 PM > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > Cc: > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs > > > > > > > > I think it would be biggest is in consulting. The people that > refuse > > or > > cant to pay for call manager or Avaya's one. Example asterisk & > > sugarcrm.com they work together. Thats really good to sell. They > > arent > > in monster.ca they are banging on doors making $. > > > > Make a buch of pre setup asterisk configs that would be most > popular > > make marketing material, dump on website. go in trade shows. > Demo > > and make $ > > > > > > Steve kalcevich > > > > Douglas Garstang wrote: > > > > >I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk > > seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, > careerbuilder > > etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities > > with Asterisk throughout the US. > > > > > >Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities > for > > Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I > wonder > > if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > > > > > >- Doug. > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > > > >Asterisk-Users mailing list > > >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------> _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >_______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
You make it sound so easy. Even one customer that you sell, you may make $1000 but your initial overhead is high. You need to be full time first of all, and also be capable of supporting your customers. Just my 2 cents follows: I have been in the IT business for over 15 years, and I cannot count how many customers I have gotten because their previous consultants were either incapable, dishonest, or unable to properly support them. My personal opinion is that lack of support and capability in the IT world is a certain problem. I literally work 24/7, but I would not have it any other way(at least until retirement). The voip market especially has problems with customer retention, reliability, tech support, etc... I feel this has been one of the markets biggest problems. It almost seems to make sense that voip companies be licensed in some form to guarantee a level of reliability and service that customers deserve. Look at the options, there are some companies that are bad, and some that are very good, but from the customers perspective no way to distinguish between them except the feedback on lists and forums, or from people they trust. For example, a number of my clients use Cablevision/Optimum online for voice, and horridly hate the customer service and repair service. Whereas others use verizon and really cannot complain nearly as much(not to say they do not have problems, but verizon has gotten much better recently). It has gotten to the point where I suggest people not to use optimum online, mostly because of their voice network, and the fact that the are subbing most of their service personel. Their internet works well though. I am not promoting verizon in any way, sure they are inflated, but when it comes to the operation of someones business or the effect of technology on their personal life, they would simply rather not deal with the complicated. If the VOIP market is to make a really big boom, we need an enterprise approach, mostly to customer service... This is one reason why vonage has done well, they have taken an enterprise approach to serving clients. Sure they limit their capability a lot (e.g. no iax/sip, etc) but they have a good business model and it will no doubt serve them well in the future. Ok, my 2 cents are over :) Greg -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven Kalcevich Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:13 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs I think it would be biggest is in consulting. The people that refuse or cant to pay for call manager or Avaya's one. Example asterisk & sugarcrm.com they work together. Thats really good to sell. They arent in monster.ca they are banging on doors making $. Make a buch of pre setup asterisk configs that would be most popular make marketing material, dump on website. go in trade shows. Demo and make $ Steve kalcevich Douglas Garstang wrote:>I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seemsto be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US.> >Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities forCisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places?> >- Doug. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------> >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >_______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users