On Dec 4, 2007, at 1:57 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote:
>> Recently I took a full time job after nearly 17 years of
>> consulting. Must be
>> something in the air...
>
> I'm considering it after 5 years of being an independent (mostly).
>
> I wonder if it's just not as easy anymore to be a consultant in this
> industry?
For me it was a combination of things. I am a big fish in the small
VFP pond, but a smaller fish in a much, much bigger Python pond. I've
heard this from other developers who moved to other "mainstream"
languages such as C# or Java: there's a lot of work, but everyone and
their brother is bidding against you, so it's hard to find clients
willing to pay for experience when there are tons of low-cost
alternatives.
The other thing is the ever-shrinking size of the VFP "pond". It
used to be no problem finding consulting work, as there were lots of
VFP projects around; hell, I used to turn work away because my plate
was full. But now the opportunities are fewer in number, and shorter
in duration. I've dropped my rate when bidding on a couple of recent
projects, and was still too high. It's pretty sad when after all
these years I can't get as much for VFP work as I do for Python work.
-- Ed Leafe
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