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Consider taking up contracting. You pick the clients, set your own hours, manage your own deadlines and only take on as much as you want. Its helped me tremend
by barelysapient 4y ago
Consider taking up contracting. You pick the clients, set your own hours, manage your own deadlines and only take on as much as you want. Its helped me tremendously manage my mental health.
- convolvatron 4y agoI certainly agree that it gives you a much broader sense of agency. especially when you get to the point you can fire clients for just not being good to work with (generally wanting the final results but not wanting to put in the organizational effort) it can have the opposite effect on the down times. no one is looking after you to make sure to make rent, and alot of engineers don't have the kind of training or personality that lends to cold calling. at least I don't...I can't even imagine what that would look like for systems programmers - "oh hi, I'm just calling to see if you need any device drivers written". ".......uh..."
- gilmore606 4y agoYou don't cold call, you hook up with a small agency, who also doesn't cold call. They are plugged into the VC network; when some startup needs outside technical help, they ask their VC to find someone. Your agency gets those calls. There are many of these small agencies focusing on different parts of the software ecosystem, the trick being to find them.