Bored with contracting.

[MarillionFan]

To be bored with contracting is to be bored with life.

You have the ability to say who you will or won't work for, where you will or won't work, what you will or won't do.

If you are bored with the type of work you do then change. You have that freedom.

Actually, forget the above. Only boring people get bored.

Balls. IT for the majority is boring.

You build software and solutions for small companies, SMEs, Enterprise. To do what? Call Centre? CRM? Health Records? Software for TVs? Etc etc

Its not rocket science. It's not something that stands the test of time. It doesn't do anything.

Think of the code breakers at Bletchley. The moon
landings. The invention of the microchip!! All things to be proud off.

When the grandkids ask what you did with your life do you really want to answer 'Oh I wrote code for stuff that no longer is around and I had a level 30 Elf on WOW!'

[mudskipper]

You could be a life coach.

[Churchill]

Balls. IT for the majority is boring.

You build software and solutions for small companies, SMEs, Enterprise. To do what? Call Centre? CRM? Health Records? Software for TVs? Etc etc

Its not rocket science. It's not something that stands the test of time. It doesn't do anything.

Think of the code breakers at Bletchley. The moon
landings. The invention of the microchip!! All things to be proud off.

When the grandkids ask what you did with your life do you really want to answer 'Oh I wrote code for stuff that no longer is around and I had a level 30 Elf on WOW!'

I don't work in IT. There are plenty of things I can point at and say "I worked on that".

Perhaps you should try something else. However asking a bunch of geeks on a contractor forum about your next direction sounds like a non-starter.

[EternalOptimist]

How can anyone get bored with contracting ?

I sneezed on my monitor today, then spent an hour marvelling how each little snot-globule refracted a different pure colour. Some of them were a brilliant fiery red, remininscent of a sunset over the Victorian desert on a halcyon summers twilight, with wild camels grazing in the backdrop. Other bits of snot shone green, that made me want to visit the lush pastures of co.kildare and watch the cows go to the shed for milking, their ancient cow-bells clanging through the rolling vista. Most glorious were the bright blue bits of mucuous membrane, that inspired me to imagine the mighty Everton FC fighting their way to the fa cup final or even Europe. it could happen.
there is a lot of poetry and magic in the world

How can anyone get bored with contracting ?

[MarillionFan]

I don't work in IT. There are plenty of things I can point at and say "I worked on that".

Perhaps you should try something else. However asking a bunch of geeks on a contractor forum about your next direction sounds like a non-starter.

I used this conjecture on a guy at VMware when I said what a waste space software was and that on the whole it was worthless.

He was pissed and went mental. 'Waddya mean? Virtualization saves energy. It cuts down emissions. It saves trees. It saves rainforests. It saves lives MAN IT SAVES ******* LIVES'

He had a breakdown due to overwork shortly after that.

[minestrone]

Personally if I see that the client is doing something wrong then I'll tell them and show how it should be done. I've never had a bad response

In my experience you dance to the beat the client makes, if you foxtrot to a samba you are out the door.

Head down and keep invoicing.

[darmstadt]

When the grandkids ask what you did with your life do you really want to answer 'Oh I wrote code for stuff that no longer is around and I had a level 30 Elf on WOW!'

S'funny, much of the software which I have written, will write and use which was written by other people will go on for many more years and has been around for a very long time. I'm still using and compiling programs from over 30 years ago. Its probably because IT departments sacrifice their tried and tested software for that is new and glitters each time the CIO reads an airline magazine.

BTW, Elf will be around for quite a while, Linux assembly ELF that is...

[Churchill]

I used this conjecture on a guy at VMware when I said what a waste space software was and that on the whole it was worthless.

He was pissed and went mental. 'Waddya mean? Virtualization saves energy. It cuts down emissions. It saves trees. It saves rainforests. It saves lives MAN IT SAVES ******* LIVES'

He had a breakdown due to overwork shortly after that.

Probably didn't have his work life balance sorted.

Anyway, enough of that. I've done my 12 hours and now I'm off to the gym.

Toodles.

[Spacecadet]

In my experience you dance to the beat the client makes, if you foxtrot to a samba you are out the door.

Head down and keep invoicing.

I've tried that and I hated it... I was also not given an extension when there was clearly more work to be done!
IMO experience should count for something and if you know there is better way of doing something then it's your professional duty to educate the client appropriately.
As I said, I've never had a bad response to this, a good demonstration and a calm and professional manner is all that's needed.
Naturally the client may give some resistance, usually from the people responsible for creating what you're trying to improve but allowing the right people on board and giving them some sense of ownership of what you're trying to achieve overcomes this resistance.

[suityou01]

Bored bored bored.

Present clientco is full of knobheads. The managers and most of the directors are junior to my perm role and frankly I haven't seen such a shower of tulip since I did the Public Sector. I've now developed and deployed all of their reqs and have 8 more weeks to run.

Could jump into a long term BA role close to home. Easy money but it's an unfulfilling job doing BA stuff.

Got ten days extra dev work with third client.

In all three cases I could string work out and go slower.

Think I need a new Plan B which beco
es Plan A. Ideas?

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