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[scotspine]

Is this the most boring thread ever? Do try and keep up up boys, the future is in moving up the value chain, not learning new technology.

d'accord

[Joe Black]

If you see contracting as just some better paid equivalent of being a permie then moving up the food chain makes sense...if you want to spend the rest of your life working in IT that is.

For a lot of contractors though - myself included - the aim is simply to get in, get out, make as much money as possible and retire to plan B...in which case keeping up with the tech in the short/middle term can be one of the best things you can do.

[scotspine]

yes, but often, moving to plan b requires skills that would not be acquired other than by 'moving up the food chain'.

[mcquiggd]

I agree with Joe Black.


Ive been a box shifter, developer, lead developer, team leader, development manager.. and sometimes a technical architect...

I dont want to work in this industry forever, and if i can make 2 or 3 times the take home pay being a skilled techie, then I dont care what the role is.... thats what ill do.... in fact my CV seems to scare some people (muli-national, multi-billion pound corporates all the way, plus Oxford University) so im thinking off leaving the management side off. All I want is to take the money, deliver what the client asks for, and live my life away from all that.