On 5/17/07, Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 9:09 am, Lan Barnes wrote: > Did CVS consulting. Usual rate. Not bad (except the CVS part ;) Yes but did you have enough demand to continuously go from job to job full time?
I have never done anything but consult being basically unfit for permanent employment. I am not psychologically capable of being an employee. For me it is just too much like being a slave. I was raised in an entrepreneurial family where having a job was considered a sign of failure. You might take a job from time to time for a short while to tide oneself over a thin spot but that was all. I guess that attitude stuck. I consider it perfectly honorable for decent folks to hold jobs. I just am not able to work that way myself. One consequence is I have a lot of freedom, sometines not so much money, and I have on occasion worked much harder than the vast majority of people. Oh and sometimes I have a lot more money, but not always. Money is like air, you breathe it in and breathe it out. Sometimes you hold your breath and swim underwater for a while. For me consulting has been chicken and feathers. Sometimes fat and sometimes lean. The main problem I have had is that I needed to spend a lot of time and energy looking for gigs. One solutions, which most contract programmers take, is to work with a head hunter. I never cared for that and always found my own work (and often that for others) still that aspect of the consulting was always from my perspective a pain in the butt. Along the way I started several product businesses, one of which was quite successful, a couple of them not so. About a year ago I decided that I was sick of consulting, basically fixing other peoples dreams that had turned into nightmares. So I decided to start another business, based on delivering services with technology as a basis. That is going well and at least so far is far more satisfying on every dimension than the consulting had become. If you decide to become a free lance consultant then you had best be able to sell at least as well as you program. BobLQ "I don't miss consulting at all" -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
