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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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