1 Month to become c# contractor?

[tim123]

You could parse a DOS command line with just pointers and strings. If you can't handle that, there may be no hope for you (and you'll have to take up C#).

You could if you had it in a string.

But unless you use the 'args' functions to read it, you have no string to parse.

Tell me, where inside an embedded program is the command line string?

Even in a PC program there is still nowhere obvious to find it unless you use the 'args' functions to get it for you.

tim

[VectraMan]

You could if you had it in a string.

But unless you use the 'args' functions to read it, you have no string to parse.

Tell me, where inside an embedded program is the command line string?

Even in a PC program there is still nowhere obvious to find it unless you use the 'args' functions to get it for you.

Don't know about embedded stuff, but a DOS C program would have started with main, like C programs are meant to, and the command line arguments are passed into that. I've never heard of the 'args' function.

I think if I'd have been interviewing you I wouldn't have thought any less if you'd asked about where to get the args, but if you couldn't work out how to parse it with or without the string functions, I wouldn't have been very impressed.

[NotAllThere]

Yeah, but how much is "feedback" from an Agent really worth in the greater scheme of things?

Well, he wants me to get gigs, so that he can get his commission. If he thought I didn't interview well, he'd have told me, so that next time I can win the contract for him. It reminds me of the old days when agents didn't treat you as just another number.

[PAH]

Well, he wants me to get gigs, so that he can get his commission. If he thought I didn't interview well, he'd have told me, so that next time I can win the contract for him. It reminds me of the old days when agents didn't treat you as just another number.

Do many contractors ever use the same agent for multiple gigs, or only by coincidence?

Two of my recent contracts have been through the same agency. The last one I was just nosying through jobserve, saw their name and emailed someone I knew there to sort it out for me. It cut out a lot of the aggro, and I knew they were reputable and would always pay my invoices promptly, and not mess me around like some of the less reputable agencies out there.

So maybe there are advantages to having one agent like many other freelancers do, rather than treating them as just a middleman.

Obviously it would depend on the size of the agency and whether they always had suitable vacancies on their books.

[VectraMan]

Do many contractors ever use the same agent for multiple gigs, or only by coincidence?

I'm on my second gig with this agent. I did another one inbetween, and with a few weeks to go they phoned out the blue to see if I was available for this role. No messing about looking for work.

They are pretty good, so I'd work for/with/against them again. Oddly every non-contractor I've talked to about this has assumed you have one agent that finds you work, I guess like a theatrical agent.

[PAH]

Oddly every non-contractor I've talked to about this has assumed you have one agent that finds you work, I guess like a theatrical agent.

Yeah, many other freelancers must have to sign a contract with the agent binding them for a fixed period or until notice is served. Footballers, writers, actors etc. Though I think those types of agents would be working a bit harder for their 10% when the freelancer needs work.

Maybe that's why Denny kept banging on about agents really being EBs, whatever EB stands for. Employment Broker?

[Pondlife]

Maybe that's why Denny kept banging on about agents really being EBs, whatever EB stands for. Employment Broker?

Evil Barstewards

HTH

[PAH]

Evil Barstewards

HTH

Oh I see. That's where they're going wrong then. Evil Bar-studs have a much better time!

[milanbenes]

lads,

top tip...

the best way to get into a successfuly .Net C# contracting career is to have the certificates, get the certification, go for the full monty and aim to be a fully certified MSDN and you'll be larfing

Milan.

[PAH]

lads,

top tip...

the best way to get into a successfuly .Net C# contracting career is to have the certificates, get the certification, go for the full monty and aim to be a fully certified MSDN and you'll be larfing

Milan.

I can download the certificates just as easily as I can download a degree if I believed that.