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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:59PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:59PM (#685832)

    Unbelievable. Good for you if true

    3 years ago, I was the only programmer in the organization I was working for, and I was able to within a couple of months demonstrate that leaving me to my own devices would get them good results. That job was a flexible-enough contract position that I took the time to set up my own software business on the side and am now independent, with enough satisfied customers that no single customer could completely ruin me. Now that my management is me, there's really no interference at all.

    You'd be amazed how far reasonable technical competence can get you when the people paying you have never experienced it before.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 29 2018, @09:07PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday May 29 2018, @09:07PM (#685893)

    Sounds great, any contract work I have encountered has either been too demanding (i.e. move cross country and work on-site for 6-9 months, or local "needing" you "full time plus overtime" for an unspecified period), or too flaky and underfunded - like $10K chunks of funding without any assurances that the next $10K will be available regardless of the results produced. The time I might have built a multi-customer base like you describe, I was in a University town and all the businesses were working on the expectation of getting lucky and hiring "great kids straight out of school" for the price of incompetent fresh-outs. I actually interviewed with one shop where the manager came to a point and said: "O.K. - I want you here, next question: what are your salary expectations?" I told him what I was currently making, he nodded and told me that he was the highest paid programmer there and he made half what I do... and that I should look to another nearby city if I wanted that kind of money - advice I ended up following within a couple of years.

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