Hi all,
I'm currently employed as a permanent developer and I'm looking to make the leap to contracting.
I'm 25 years old with 4.5 years coding at industry level, experience in:
- Magento (PHP / Zend / Mysql / Javascript and the various prominent libraries / HTML / CSS etc) 3.5 years
- Java 1 year
- Unixy stuff 4.5 years
- CI (Jenkins) and various unit testing frameworks (PHPUnit for php and a few javascript based ones)
Additionally, as I'm sure a lot of tech enthusiasts do, I've played around with all the big web frameworks in my free time (Rails, Symfony, Angular etc).
I'll preface by saying I've read through the first timer guide here at CUK and absorbed most of it, the IR35 still has me a bit baffled but I'm sure I'll work through that, and I've enough savings to last me 6 months or so. I'm set on the course of contracting, and all the associated risks, my question is: As a first timer, what can I do while I'm at my permie role to try to minimise my time without work? (I'm thinking WRT setting up a Ltd company and things) Recruiters on LinkedIn seem to immediately lose interest in me (I suppose understandably) after they find out I'm still employed on a permanent basis and am only considering contract work.
Any other advice for me?
I'm currently employed as a permanent developer and I'm looking to make the leap to contracting.
I'm 25 years old with 4.5 years coding at industry level, experience in:
- Magento (PHP / Zend / Mysql / Javascript and the various prominent libraries / HTML / CSS etc) 3.5 years
- Java 1 year
- Unixy stuff 4.5 years
- CI (Jenkins) and various unit testing frameworks (PHPUnit for php and a few javascript based ones)
Additionally, as I'm sure a lot of tech enthusiasts do, I've played around with all the big web frameworks in my free time (Rails, Symfony, Angular etc).
I'll preface by saying I've read through the first timer guide here at CUK and absorbed most of it, the IR35 still has me a bit baffled but I'm sure I'll work through that, and I've enough savings to last me 6 months or so. I'm set on the course of contracting, and all the associated risks, my question is: As a first timer, what can I do while I'm at my permie role to try to minimise my time without work? (I'm thinking WRT setting up a Ltd company and things) Recruiters on LinkedIn seem to immediately lose interest in me (I suppose understandably) after they find out I'm still employed on a permanent basis and am only considering contract work.
Any other advice for me?
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