"Contractor" can mean, entrepreneurial person who's made a career helping a range of companies who's internal developers couldn't get the job done. Or it could

"Contractor" can mean, entrepreneurial person who's made a career helping a range of companies who's internal developers couldn't get the job done. Or it could mean, someone that a company took on with a day-rate because they needed a warm body, but didn't want to actually hire them either, in case someone better came along. Or anything in between.