"Fixed-term" vs casual contracting

[Denny]

This post is boring, it's boring me. It's ended. Finish it.

Your boring me with your 'stop posting on this thread it's ended' messages.

Finish it.

[Jabberwocky]

Oh, you ought to hear developers griping about architectures. Never seen a major project where there weren't at least three disparate architectures brought in all fighting for some use.

And why does everyone want to slip their favourite library into the build for cris'sake?

To make themselves irreplaceable - but of course you knew that. Drugs, Sex and Software Architectures -- I feel a novel coming on.

[ratewhore]

Hmm, I'm doing a lot of "Front-end" stuff as well at the moment. Quite creative if I must say so myself as well...

Just asked because it seems a vague term, you can perhaps guess at what it means, but it's a bit like me saying that my main role is 'IT stuff', could mean anything which makes it difficult to judge if the first contract was simply a fluke or not (and could put a different light on things), or whether you're better off telling them to take a hike...

I met a 'new technology evangelist' once. At least, that was according to his business card. But then it was 2000 and things were very different then...

[threaded]

To make themselves irreplaceable - but of course you knew that. Drugs, Sex and Software Architectures -- I feel a novel coming on.

I try and rise above it all and often position myself at the meta-architecture level.