Your First Contracting Gig

[Spacecadet]

Where was it?

What were you doing?

How did you cope with the shift from perm to contract?

What did you learn?

Was there a point where you had to smell strong contractor coffee?

What were you doing before that first contract?

[Lucifer Box]

You go first.

[AtW]

I fixed old abacus used by Archimedes in exchange for gold bar that he was given to find out if it is fake or not. I gave him my g-string and we called it even.

threaded.

[Pondlife]

I fixed old abacus used by Archimedes in exchange for gold bar that he was given to find out if it is fake or not. I gave him my g-string and we called it even.

threaded.

Lucky he didn't screw you on the deal.


IGMC

[Lucifer Box]

I fixed old abacus used by Archimedes in exchange for gold bar that he was given to find out if it is fake or not. I gave him my g-string and we called it even.

threaded.

[Spacecadet]

Fair enough

Where was it?
Software co. too recent to say where

What were you doing?
T-SQL Development and some SQL Server Admin

How did you cope with the shift from perm to contract?
Badly, was at a good point in my career to change just a very bad time in my personal life for it. Found it difficult to give 100% focus to the task in hand.

What did you learn?
Contracting does require a bit more proffessionalism than being a permie... and to never work for a software co. again (me and them just don't mix)

Was there a point where you had to smell strong contractor coffee?
Agency decided to screw me on payment terms, i had to screw them back harder before my bank account hit the rocks.

What were you doing before that first contract?
5 years permie on Development, DBA and Sysadmin on CRM and financials systems

[Lucifer Box]

professionalism

HTH
Fleetwood

[Spacecadet]

professionalism

HTH
Fleetwood

my ff key is broken

[AtW]

my ff key is broken

Most important key for this forum...

[teabag]

Went contract after getting made redundant three times in a row!! No such thing as a permanent job, just longer contracts on worse rates...