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I would say, the unwillingness for companies to outsource the interesting work. IME, most consulting work is just grind, no interesting problems, and the pay r
by wavephorm 15y ago
I would say, the unwillingness for companies to outsource the interesting work.
IME, most consulting work is just grind, no interesting problems, and the pay rarely really makes up for the real amount of work.
- daeken 15y agoFind your niche and only contract in that space. For quite a while, I only did reverse-engineering contracting; I gained a reputation for doing it, and my available work and hourly rate rose as a result of that. Figure out the intersection of what you're interested in, what people are willing to pay for, and what you're good at and you're set.
- rbranson 15y agoYeah, I actually think you've got a better shot at specializing in interesting work as a consultant. As a staff developer, even if you work on interesting things most of the time, you can still get stuck with bottom-of-the-barrel shit like the equivalent of writing a VB app to track the secretary's time.
- andrewljohnson 15y agoExactly... we do nothing but mapping apps, leveraging a platform we license out. Our partners know that the apps we produce are going to rank and make money, and so they pay.
- dotBen 15y agoI'm a consultant and I get this a lot but I actually agree with it, esp where the client is a larger firm with numerous employees. When I was on the other side of the table, and an employee working in a dev team that also consisted of contractors, the only reason I didn't quit and demand to be rehired as a contractor on 200% of my salary is because the firm only used contractors for grind work. I knew that all of the work that would be interesting and furthering would be farmed out to the employees out of loyalty.