Re: So?

Post #402,435 by lincoln 6/10/15 5:12:48 PM Reply	Re: So? So go work with a recruiting agency or a reseller to get your foot in the door. Been trying that for the past 4 months. Even applying for jobs in application support, without success so far. Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897
Post #402,440 by Another Scott 6/10/15 5:52:47 PM Reply	Not the same thing. As I understand it, you've been using recruiters to help you find employment. Mike is saying use recruiters to help you find a consulting gig. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/76659/how-is-a-software-developer-different-from-a-software-consultant-what-makes Best of luck. HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #402,451 by mvitale 6/10/15 11:53:11 PM Reply	This. Mike is saying use recruiters to help you find a consulting gig. Yep. This. All of this. Then some more. Start a company. Do 1099 consulting. Charge $100-150 an hour to start. You have skills. Exploit them. This year is set up to be the best year of my career. Go get it. -Mike @MikeVitale42 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #402,441 by hnick 6/10/15 7:00:24 PM Reply	It can work. For the last couple years, contracting is the only thing I could get. Still is, so far. I worked with a number of contracting companies and 2 of them got me gigs. Money's ok, but contractors are a lot like toilet paper: quite useful at times, but eminently disposable. I'm pushing 65, and I can no longer expect anything better for the next 10 years or so. Oh, well. Best of luck. "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." ~ AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914)
Post #402,442 by boxley 6/10/15 7:44:53 PM Reply	same boat Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep

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