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" if you're in a contract job for 4 years, there's something wrong" Depends on your goals. I've been contracting at the same company for 10years. It gave me th

• JAlexoid 4y ago
  Let me correct myself - if you're in one contract doing the same thing for 4 years, there's something wrong.(IMO) I love contracting and it's my preferred method of working. However - staying in one contract for 4 years is a red flag. (barring some really long term projects)
  • samstave 4y ago
    as a contractor for over a decade of my 25 year career - I would do big builds and some contracts were only like 9 months... and when I would apply at other places they would always ask me, because they were ignorant of what I did - "Why were you only there 9 months" And I would have to explain "Because that was what I was contracted to do" The only contract that I was terminated early from was FB -- but that was because I accidentally, through my status reports, revealed that a certain executive named "the Captain" was hiding build schedule delays for the Sydney office (he went on vacation so I had to speak directly to the contractors building out the office, and found out they were behind schedule by a month and over budget and I put it in my status report, and upon his return from vacation he had me terminated for revealing that info) and the fucked up part was that my manager and team just left the area, then I got a call from the contracting company telling me I had to leave the building - and I was commuting to work via the FB van... so I was stranded in Menlo Park....