I am self-employed as a contractor/consultant doing frontend work - this is similar to how I started the relationship with my biggest and best client. They had

I am self-employed as a contractor/consultant doing frontend work - this is similar to how I started the relationship with my biggest and best client. They had a post looking for a full-time contractor, I contacted them and they gave me 4 hours of paid work. That was good, so they gave me 8 hours next. That was good, so they gave me a week's worth of work next. That was good so they gave me a month's worth of work. By the time my half day + day + week + month was up, they had a nice contract ready for me to sign and we've been happy ever since! I really like the way they onboarded me - there was small, but increasing risk shared equally between them and me as we started our relationship and learned to trust each other. It's been great, and if I was going to hire somebody on I'd do the same!