I've been out of the contract game for a while. I always used a head hunter Networking is goid to. That can back door you into a job.
-- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Tue, May 25, 2021, 9:56 PM Dale R. Worley <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Eric Chadbourne <[email protected]> > > > > Any tips on favorite places to look for work or contracts?? I tend to > > wear hats with three letters but ^C.? Dev, Sec, Ops, and the like.? > > 100% remote.? Usually burn out or get bored in three years.? A > > contract shorter than seems to be the best. > > The best algorithm I know of is (1) know what you're looking for, and > (2) ask everyone you know if they know of someone who wants that. My > last job-hunt, it took me about 3 months from starting to offer-in-hand, > by far the best I'd ever done. In this case, you have spread the word > widely that you are looking but left it remarkably unclear what exactly > you want to do (and know how to do). > > (Also, write in solid standard English -- that skill is not so common > and will superstitiously impress the natives. That is, don't stick > random question marks on the ends of sentences. Then again, perhaps > that is the result of some odd transformation done by the listserv, in > which case, well, you're the computer expert, how did you get messed up > by that?) > > Dale > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
