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Selling consulting is hard... You need a whole sales org and if not, a salesperson personality. This often clashes with the hacker mentality and requires differ
by invalidname 4y ago
Selling consulting is hard... You need a whole sales org and if not, a salesperson personality. This often clashes with the hacker mentality and requires different disciplines. I would say this doesn't sell "easily" like a SaaS would.
- bawolff 4y agoOf course its "hard", if it was trivial nobody would pay you to do it. And you are right, the skillset is different from pure dev. However, you don't need a "sales org" to do it. Plenty of people do it by themselves or in a small company of a couple devs and an administrative assistant.
- mistrial9 4y agohere is a preview for you -- for three or four years after being a thirty year old hot-shot on some current in-demand tech, yes.. great life consulting.. fast forward ten years.. "people over 35 should consider retiring" and no consulting.. at the same time, massive, huge outsourcing to the lowest wages, for newer tech stacks, and maintenance mode for lots of things that were current.
- bawolff 4y agoDon't chase fads if you want stability (for that matter, chasing fads is bad if you want to be a rockstar too - its like going to the goldrush after everyone has already flocked). Anyways, as a php dev, i can assure you im not working on whatever the popular trend is right now.
- nine_k 4y agoChasing the fad of COBOL undertaken right now, I think, could help one bring home some bacon for years and years. Certain tech stops being a fad but stays entrenched and in a certain, while not overwhelming, demand. Hiring for PHP and C++ jobs will continue for a loooong time.