There are many, many consultants out there. Even in a much smaller market like Australia, there are plenty of SQL Server, Messaging, Networking, AD, Citrix, whatever consultants. These guys will move between vendors and doing their own thing. There's no need to be working for a Fortune 100 company - plenty of companies in a place like Australia or Singapore or Hong Kong (or any European country, Japan, India, etc. etc.) that is 25K+ seats - so still a decent size - needing outside expertise when standing up a new technology. At $200/hour, you're not going to be doing grunt work - you'd be doing architecture/design, or troubleshooting issues.
Having the contacts is key - either former co-workers, or having the necessary reputation. Once you have a decent number of (successful) gigs under your belt, you'll be getting call backs. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 7 February 2012 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - ugh! You can look at it in one of two ways: Either you and MBS got very lucky, or you got very smart. The niches you've chosen are specialised enough that you aren't doing daily grunt work (punching down patchpanels, patching workstations, applying antivirus, replacing burnt-out video cards, etc.), but not so specialised that your only place to land is in a Fortune 100 company on its staff doing something that only applies to 3 other companies in the world. The lesson is to place yourself at some sort of sweet spot on the IT foodchain - and then exploit the hell out of it. The difficulty always lies in finding that sweet spot. And being willing to travel... Kurt On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 14:49, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > I can only speak for me, and it has been feast since I went out on my > own Feb 1st last year. So far this year, the feast is even better as > there is very little agency work so I get 100% of the billables. :) > Yes, I am complaining all the way to the bank. If it gets any better, > MBS is going to want a referral fee or commission! > > > Carl Webster > > Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional > > http://www.CarlWebster.com > > > From: David Lum <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NT Issues <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:31:45 +0000 > To: NT Issues <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: OT - ugh! > > That’s part of my fear of dropping %dayjob% and going 100% on my own > biz – feast or famine! With just three clients I have I’m always > amazed at how often their feast/famine cycles coincide, and they even > have different fiscal year cycles. I mean, in the span of two months I > am doing an SBS 2003 – SBS2011 swing for two of them. One of these > clients I can go months with nothing other than patching. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
