Vacation Time. I spent several years in my late twenties and early thirties working to increase my bill rate and shorten the length of contracts that I took. T

Vacation Time. I spent several years in my late twenties and early thirties working to increase my bill rate and shorten the length of contracts that I took. The plan was to eventually be that guy from the engineering joke who rocks up for an afternoon at your plant, draws a red X on the side of your boiler, and delivers a $30,000 bill. [1] I got to the point where I was travelling the world for most of the year every year and doing the occasional 3 month contracting gig, before figuring out that SaaS is a better long term way to get where I wanted to be. I’ve written a bit about it here: https://expatsoftware.com/articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop.html https://expatsoftware.com/articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-l... Edit to add: [1] I actually met that guy once, on a beach in Nicaragua. His “job” was to remain within a few hours of an international airport. Because he was a pipe fitter qualified to fix the fiddly bits oin a nuclear power plant, so if they ever needed a guy to do The Thing they’d better have one on call.