I've never wanted to return to permiedom - mostly because I just couldn't endure the sheer tedium and monotony of what I do as a contractor on a perm basis.
Don't get me wrong - when I started doing this 10 years ago I really enjoyed the work & I've had some good clients and I've been to some interesting places. I can't say I've enjoyed the past couple of years contracting though; mostly down to Agile, scrum and all the associated micromanagement and the technical work I've done has been extremely dull and unchallenging. This coupled with the situation in which it looks like roles are harder to come by & all the proposed legislation changes has got me thinking I'm going to have to at least consider a move to perm in the medium term.
Just wondering if anyone has ever moved sideways into a different kind of role - i.e. if you were purely hands on technical, maybe something that still requires the technical knowledge combined with other soft skills. I'm thinking along the lines of pre-sales consultancy, something like that. Or, perhaps, be a consultant for a product, travel to client sites (hopefully more exotic ones) to provide support.
Anyone done anything like this?
Don't get me wrong - when I started doing this 10 years ago I really enjoyed the work & I've had some good clients and I've been to some interesting places. I can't say I've enjoyed the past couple of years contracting though; mostly down to Agile, scrum and all the associated micromanagement and the technical work I've done has been extremely dull and unchallenging. This coupled with the situation in which it looks like roles are harder to come by & all the proposed legislation changes has got me thinking I'm going to have to at least consider a move to perm in the medium term.
Just wondering if anyone has ever moved sideways into a different kind of role - i.e. if you were purely hands on technical, maybe something that still requires the technical knowledge combined with other soft skills. I'm thinking along the lines of pre-sales consultancy, something like that. Or, perhaps, be a consultant for a product, travel to client sites (hopefully more exotic ones) to provide support.
Anyone done anything like this?
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