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Previously on "Is it bad or good for contractor to deliver crap quality code/design?"
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From a clients point of view, it is better to have something in place that gives a partial solution to a problem than a perfect solution that never gets implemented. So there is a balance to be achieved. Not too crap and not too slow.
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Unless they have asked me to sort out a mess or hack a quick fix into a well designed system I just continue in the way it was moving before I turned up. Doing the opposite of what is in place already without instruction is always the worst move.
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That can be the case. But for some reason, I get to use the new technology first.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostWork hard and fast, get the job done, get the renewals, or move on. I've worked myself out of a job many times, and never caused me any difficulty. Currently on 6th year with the same clients.
If you aren't careful you can get trapped in a gig where you do all the work and the others are happy to let you. You can easily end up getting stuck with out of date technology that way.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostNot really. Troll alert mods!
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Was one of 2 contractors brought in to deliver a solution about 10 months ago. I delivered BI solution (reporting, database, cube, ETL) very quickly and efficiently and the team were really impressed. The app developer was taking months to deliver a relatively straight forward app. I completed my work and they ended up terminating him thereafter handing the work over to me even though I am a BI specialist. In the end I completed a working app within 3 weeks from scratch. They kept extending me and keeping me on to maintain and do new pieces of work.
Moral of the story: Just do the job you were hired to do and leave the extension decisions up to the clients....
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Work hard and fast, get the job done, get the renewals, or move on. I've worked myself out of a job many times, and never caused me any difficulty. Currently on 6th year with the same clients.
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i feel slightly soiled.
work your nuts off to make yourself redundant. and you will never be redundant
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A contractor is only as good as his reputation, if you do a good job you are just as likely to get renewed maybe on another project or hired again at a later date, doing a bad job may get you extended but its more likely to get you canned.
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The Bobs have made careers out of doing Bad Quality
I have made a career out of sorting it out
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In my 22 years as contractor I always did a good job. I often moved jobs, but as soon as an old manager wanted someone they thought of me.
I wrote a precious metal system for UBS - did myself out of a job. 9 months later I was back for a money market system for UBS Jersey. In the 9 months my manager was called to the precious metal traders twice - both times to reboot the printer!
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