I think Ian makes a lot of sense with his queries. He did not mention issues such as non-disclosure of confidental data, business methods, etc. as well as insurance, liability and other factors that are at the core of business relatiohships/contracts. He is right that you cannot rightly do "work" for someone else's business "for free" without both parties potentially having troubles later.

Others have suggested you hone your skills by responding to queries on SAS-:L, and I think that makes a lot of sense . There are also "L" groups fro statistcs, SPSS, etc. that you may want to query, too.

Andrew Karp Sierra Information Services www.SierraInformation.com

On Mar 3, 4:54�am, iebup...@GMAIL.COM ("./ ADD NAME=Data _null_;") wrote: > On 3/2/09, Sas Help <help...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Ian, > > > I think you have some misunderstanding. I have paid sas institute to use > > their software for my personal use, and I am not a sas programmer or > > statistician where i work. I used to be sas programmer at a pharma company > > few years back. The reason i was saying i have a job is because that �i > > was trying to convince people that I am not expecting to score a job from > > them, and i am truly trying to volunteer �just out of my personal > > interest. > > You just discouraged me. > > OK Ian discouraged you from your offer to work for free. �But you can > spend as much time as you want or have doing exactly the same thing on > SAS-L. �Plus the L is here to peer review your offerings. �What could > be better? > > > I don't understand why people get angry > > for nothing? I am not trying to take away anybody's job. > > I detected no anger in anything that Ian wrote in this tread. �You > sound like the angry one. �Are you Ajay Ohri? �Am I going to have to > add you to my twit filter? > > > > > Anyway, I am not interested for free work anymore. > > Why?