Crosstrain as a contractor?

[TheOmegaMan]

>Who needs a CV?

God does. So he sent his son down for a go, failed and then disappeared. What has he been doing for the last 2000 years ?

[AtW]

What has he been doing for the last 2000 years ?

Retraining from a carpenter to an IT contractor, but now he realised that plumbing pays more. Allegedly.

And btw, it is less than 2000 years: around 1973 actually.

[Cowboy Bob]

What's the preferred solution?

d) Decide which technology you want some experience in, then find a contract where you have 99% of the required experience but not in your target area. Go to interview. Do contract. Gain experience.

[rootsnall]

Option C is my preferred training method.

[tim123]

Back to the original question.

I reckon the answer is (a).

I know of several people who have done this.

Personally I don't have the bottle.

tim

[zathras]

Well: Any and all of the following

1. Develop something to sell yourself in the chosen technology

2. Any chance to use it in a current contract take it

3. Take advantage of any training opportunities (MS have had some excellent free online training opportunities)

[sasguru]

I always created a little project for myself in my spare time to get confident with the technology. Once you are certain you have mastered it, just exaggerate/lie about how much you used it in your last contract/job.

[milanbenes]

poor franko,

he had a chance to get onto the real gravy train in 2002, but he didn't take it

Milan.

[Francko]

poor franko,

he had a chance to get onto the real gravy train in 2002, but he didn't take it

Milan.

As usual you don't have a clue of what you are talking about.

2002 was the worst year ever in the last years. I have done contracts between 2001 and 2004 for your own record.

[Cowboy Bob]

I always created a little project for myself in my spare time to get confident with the technology. Once you are certain you have mastered it, just exaggerate/lie about how much you used it in your last contract/job.

I also do that too. It's worthwhile doing it as an open source thing too so you get feedback from people using it and so the client can see your code.

<blatent-plug>For example, I did this when I was learning J2ME - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobilesudoku</blatent-plug>