I hate contracting.

[EternalOptimist]

Contracting is a young man's game. The trick is to make your money contracting in your 20s and 30s, invest it, then slide into a senior six figure job in your late 30s.
Sorted.
No one should be coding after 30.

Plus you don't want to be travelling around after you have a family.

You say that like its some sort of eternal verity. You should really say IMO after something like that beause I know many who disagree.
What you are saying may suit you, and good on you, but It would never suit other people.
hey ho

[minestrone]

I am just going to go straight out and ask if the code base is a pile of shit: at the interview from now on. I have tried the "what is the design to maintenance split of the work" or "how large is the testing team" but they always spot that one a mile away.

[MarillionFan]

I feel like I have been arse raped after the day I have had.

You should know better than to get in that barrel.

[minestrone]

I feel like I have been arse raped after the day I have had.

[oracleslave]

Contracting is a young man's game. The trick is to make your money contracting in your 20s and 30s, invest it, then slide into a senior six figure job in your late 30s.
Sorted.
No one should be coding after 30.

Plus you don't want to be travelling around after you have a family.

Well I tick all those boxes except I still do a manageable amount of travel. I find senior positions in consulting organisations far more rewarding than contracting. Many more variables and greater responsibilities keep it interesting. Of course having significant shares in the organisation where you are permie helps too.

[sasguru]

and for those of us who enjoy it?

Will you still like it if you have to make your living from it in your 40s/50s?
If so carry on.

[Spacecadet]

No one should be coding after 30.

and for those of us who enjoy it?

[SimonMac]

It's too fricking easy, it doesn't stretch you and you get paid far too much money.

Fook it I'm going to give it all up and become a peace activist outside Parliament. Someone lend me a tent?

Man up you pussy whipped bitch!

[sasguru]

Contracting is a young man's game. The trick is to make your money contracting in your 20s and 30s, invest it, then slide into a senior six figure job in your late 30s.
Sorted.
No one should be coding after 30.

Plus you don't want to be travelling around after you have a family.

[Spacecadet]

It's too fricking easy, it doesn't stretch you and you get paid far too much money.

Fook it I'm going to give it all up and become a peace activist outside Parliament. Someone lend me a tent?

What I've learnt from contracting is that it's up to you to stretch yourself.

Toeing the permie line = easy street and not rocking the boat

Acting as a true contractor = rewiting shoddy code and striving to make things better.

I'm currently over my head in c# trying to speed up some dreadfully slow ETL processes.
Risk: what I know about c# can be written on the back of a fag packet
Pay off: I've already got one process working 2 orders of magnitude quicker than it was before.

I could have just walked into this contract and not bothered, left their systems as they are and got bored fast.

[DimPrawn]

I hate making money with gold too.

Click, go for a cuppa, click, oh look, another £1K in my bank account.

Jeez, it's getting silly now.

[MarillionFan]

It's too fricking easy, it doesn't stretch you and you get paid far too much money.

Fook it I'm going to give it all up and become a peace activist outside Parliament. Someone lend me a tent?