Hi Everyone,
This is my first post, so wanted to say hello. I'm Graham. 38 years old and live near Southampton with my wife and 3 young children.
I've been working in IT 18+ years now and went contracting over a year ago. My first year of contracting went pretty well, 7 months at my first contract, finished on the Friday and started my next contract on the Monday. Did almost 6 months at my 2nd role, which finished back in September. Since then, I've struggled to get something. I have 3 young children so its important for me to see them each night.
I live near Southampton, so want to find work within Hampshire ideally or Dorset and Berkshire. My main passion and strength is PowerShell, even have my own blog site to share this, https://graham-beer.github.io/. I'm certified in SCCM, but looking to move my skills into a DevOps area. I self-funded and Azure course last year with QA.com and in my time off been studying to get a few exams (in Azure).
I have a strong Windows skillset, but just been harder this time. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Be good to have a few agencies who I can build up a rapport with who understand me and I know them. But it doesn't seem to work this way ! Maybe a bit of inexperience on my part. Back in April I help co-organised the start-up of a PowerShell user group in the South. This has helped build up some contacts, and a great learning platform.
Enough of my rambling, any pointers and advice would be great.
This is my first post, so wanted to say hello. I'm Graham. 38 years old and live near Southampton with my wife and 3 young children.
I've been working in IT 18+ years now and went contracting over a year ago. My first year of contracting went pretty well, 7 months at my first contract, finished on the Friday and started my next contract on the Monday. Did almost 6 months at my 2nd role, which finished back in September. Since then, I've struggled to get something. I have 3 young children so its important for me to see them each night.
I live near Southampton, so want to find work within Hampshire ideally or Dorset and Berkshire. My main passion and strength is PowerShell, even have my own blog site to share this, https://graham-beer.github.io/. I'm certified in SCCM, but looking to move my skills into a DevOps area. I self-funded and Azure course last year with QA.com and in my time off been studying to get a few exams (in Azure).
I have a strong Windows skillset, but just been harder this time. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Be good to have a few agencies who I can build up a rapport with who understand me and I know them. But it doesn't seem to work this way ! Maybe a bit of inexperience on my part. Back in April I help co-organised the start-up of a PowerShell user group in the South. This has helped build up some contacts, and a great learning platform.
Enough of my rambling, any pointers and advice would be great.
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