Hello world,
I am a newbie from London, first of all thanks for the CUK website and this board
My main area of expertise are databases, Oracle above all, and I was considering to jump to the dark side of the IT arena and start contracting.
My big concern is that all the contractors I know are developers or project managers and I was wondering if the contracting world is suitable for DBAs and system admin too.
When I look at the job boards, for Oracle DBAs for example, I only see a but few contracts advertised, are they all or many simply don't make it to the boards?
My current permie position in a big company seems very solid (well, I'm sure now that I wrote this things will be different ), I wouldn't like to leave for my first contract and then remain benched for a long period of time while looking for my second contract.
What do you guys think I should do? Should I make this jump?
Cheers
Tifereth
I am a newbie from London, first of all thanks for the CUK website and this board
My main area of expertise are databases, Oracle above all, and I was considering to jump to the dark side of the IT arena and start contracting.
My big concern is that all the contractors I know are developers or project managers and I was wondering if the contracting world is suitable for DBAs and system admin too.
When I look at the job boards, for Oracle DBAs for example, I only see a but few contracts advertised, are they all or many simply don't make it to the boards?
My current permie position in a big company seems very solid (well, I'm sure now that I wrote this things will be different ), I wouldn't like to leave for my first contract and then remain benched for a long period of time while looking for my second contract.
What do you guys think I should do? Should I make this jump?
Cheers
Tifereth
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