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This is one of the reasons I am now contracting. Most of my clients have never even seen my face and I don't have to get involved in company culture clashes or
by jimrhods23 8y ago
This is one of the reasons I am now contracting. Most of my clients have never even seen my face and I don't have to get involved in company culture clashes or politics.
- scarface74 8y agoIf I look back at my career, the stress has never come from the technical responsibility of producing software, it’s always the politics and red tape. I don’t do large companies. I realized that I’m just not a fit for them after working at what was then a Fortune 10 (non tech) company. Not dealing with corporate politics by either working for a small company as a salaried employee or working for any company as a contractor is the only way that I’m going to be able to keep doing this for another two decades.
- cutler 8y agoHow do you manage to never show your face? Do you mean sub-contracting where someone else does the work and interfaces with clients?
- pdwetz 8y agoRemote work? I rarely have in-person client meetings anymore. And honestly at my old job it had offices around the country so even then there were people I'd worked on projects with for years and had never met in person.
- jimrhods23 8y agoRemote work. It's 99% over the phone/skype/webex (usually voice only). On occasion, it's video.
- cutler 8y agoVideo or in-person - they're still going to see your face.