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> Given my goal is to find the client who will pay the highest daily rate before the deadline... Is that actually your goal though? Are you sure you wouldn't p
by soVeryTired 8y ago
> Given my goal is to find the client who will pay the highest daily rate before the deadline...
Is that actually your goal though? Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a client who will offer repeat business at a decent but not maximal daily rate? How about a client who will offer a more interesting job, or one who will offer you the opportunity to learn something new?
In so many of these optimisation problems, the real difficulty is specifying exactly what you want to optimise (never mind making sure that the specification is tractable). In general the solution you get from your algorithm will depend sensitively on your objective: if you're not completely sure about the objective, you shouldn't be sure about the solution.
- BerislavLopac 8y ago> Is that actually your goal though? When it comes to contracting, this is precisely the goal. Your questions refer to freelancing rather than contracting, which is quite different.
- ineedasername 8y agoI'm not sure that's the case. I work somewhere that has seen a very high turnover in contractors, paid a decent amount above market averages. It's because project assignments are poorly defined, bureaucratically controlled, and by the time the initial term is up (usually 3 months) the contractor is fed up and has some other work already lined up.
- ukoki 8y agoAgree! Changing clients is preferable as there are more opportunities for networking, and there is a novelty factor: Each slow-moving bureaucratically-controlled poorly-defined enterprise IT project is slow-moving, bureaucratically-controlled and poorly-defined in its own way.
- rlpb 8y agoApparently freelancing and contracting mean different things depending on both industry and where you live. Could you clarify what you mean please, rather than relying on definitions of rather loose terms?
- soVeryTired 8y agoOk, how about a ten day contact at $1000 per day vs a fifteen day contact at $980 per day. Is it so obvious that the ten day contact is better?