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> As a senior technologist who bills his time as a consultant, I can tell you that I (correctly) get paid the most for days where I write 0 lines of code. What

• hollerith 4y ago
  He helps a company to increase revenue or decrease expenses -- or at least that is the expectation of those approving his consulting fees.
• SonOfLilit 4y ago
  Maybe convince management not to rewrite their core system. Or listen to the requirements from a new system and propose an existing tool that solves 90% of them. Or explain why the library they were going to use solves a different problem and how they'll regret choosing it. Or talk to folks and figure out why my proposed new design for a system doesn't cover all the needs of the old one (and eventually that some iteration of it _is_). Or sketch possible algorithms for a difficult problem on a whiteboard / notepad until I figure out a good-enough solution. Or talk to stakeholders about their needs and concerns regarding a new system I'm helping design. Or talk to customers. Or help prepare a pitch or customer demo. It's very rare that a customer feels it's worth paying me rate for writing code. Though it does happen, and when it does it's usually very interesting code with a very interesting story behind it.