Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2

[Old Greg]

Looking back on this thread now and having been contracting for a year and a half my advice is - don't listen to the naysayers. I should have done this sooner.

Well done, matey.

[jmo21]

Looking back on this thread now and having been contracting for a year and a half my advice is - don't listen to the naysayers. I should have done this sooner.

^Still doesn't get it.

[BigJohn]

Looking back on this thread now and having been contracting for a year and a half my advice is - don't listen to the naysayers. I should have done this sooner.

Well done

[GhostofTarbera]

Agree with above - old guys don’t like just coding 30 lines in 2 weeks and getting a round of applause at the retro - they like going balls deeps with thousands of working lines with no bugs

At my last client one young chap left because his duel monitors were not quite level


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[ladymuck]

At my last client one young chap left because his duel monitors were not quite level

I now have a delightful mental image of duelling monitors

[GhostofTarbera]

I now have a delightful mental image of duelling monitors

Better than banjos


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[pauldee]

I've seen enough in this industry to know there is not enough of a correlation between age (and even "experience") and ability to be able to make a judgement on that factor alone. There are some traps that a developer with a few more years of experience might be less likely to fall into, but technology is changing so frequently that when it comes to understanding a new framework the younger and older devs are often at the same stage. Having a couple of years working in a professional environment counts for something though. And there is the general mindset - some people just 'get' programming straight away, whereas others struggle with certain things throughout their career.

[BrilloPad]

Looking back on this thread now and having been contracting for a year and a half my advice is - don't listen to the naysayers. I should have done this sooner.

I remember a newspaper personal finance editor saying he wrote an article talking about the best mobile phone provider for customer service. He said XXXXX was statistically the best. About a year later loads of people wrote to him - they switched to XXXXX and received poor service.

So you can be 99.99% certain of an outcome you might just be in the 0.01%. It is how the lottery works - stupidity in large numbers.

I am really pleased it has worked out for you. Just remember others may get differet experiences to you.

Please post in general more - it needs more of people like you. Who think that if a woman is not pregnant one day and pregnant the next, after 40 weeks she will give birth to 280 babies.

[GhostofTarbera]

I remember a newspaper personal finance editor saying he wrote an article talking about the best mobile phone provider for customer service. He said XXXXX was statistically the best. About a year later loads of people wrote to him - they switched to XXXXX and received poor service.

So you can be 99.99% certain of an outcome you might just be in the 0.01%. It is how the lottery works - stupidity in large numbers.

I am really pleased it has worked out for you. Just remember others may get differet experiences to you.

Please post in general more - it needs more of people like you. Who think that if a woman is not pregnant one day and pregnant the next, after 40 weeks she will give birth to 280 babies.

If she is a frog then yes it’s possible


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[cannon999]

I've seen enough in this industry to know there is not enough of a correlation between age (and even "experience") and ability to be able to make a judgement on that factor alone. There are some traps that a developer with a few more years of experience might be less likely to fall into, but technology is changing so frequently that when it comes to understanding a new framework the younger and older devs are often at the same stage. Having a couple of years working in a professional environment counts for something though. And there is the general mindset - some people just 'get' programming straight away, whereas others struggle with certain things throughout their career.

At least somebody understands.