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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostPut it out there and you can point at it as a live site that you've worked on.
Technically my CV is correct in that the site was real and I built it for the company mentioned. All I failed to mention was that I owned the company!
Probably only worked as I had two Ltd companies at the time (long story) so was able to put that one on my CV while contracting through the newer one. Though the totally honest approach of "I did this during my time on the bench" may have been just as successful.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostI can't see learning in your own time is really going to be enough to convince anyone, at least not for a contract.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostI can't see learning in your own time is really going to be enough to convince anyone, at least not for a contract.
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I managed to get paid to learn C# on a contract. It was because they had an urgent requirement for maintenance of their legacy C++ software, but a longer term development with C#. So a good angle is to find somebody who needs your current skills, but are moving in a different direction. It probably also helped that I was cheaper than any experienced C#'er.
I can't see learning in your own time is really going to be enough to convince anyone, at least not for a contract.
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Reskilling as contractor
I've a lot of experience programming language $a -- very popular in the early days of the web but now more out of favour -- there are still roles which I'm getting but its getting too boring, niche and legacy for my tastes. So I'm looking at moving into Java dev since I've done some at work, it's not hard and many of the java contractors I've met don't seem to particularly know much about it.
So how do I actually make the break? In theory I'd rather reskill in my own time, reading books, writing open source and maybe taking the SJCP thing (even if it's a bit crap). But when I'm in contracts I come home tired and can't be arsed with reading about Spring or whatever. Should I take off three months and work on self training and just regard the lost income as training expense? Or just go for a bunch of (probably lower rate) contracts, or even shudder, permie and blag it?
Anyone have any suggestions or war stories about reskilling?Tags: None
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