I am honestly not sure if I am consulting in the sense many describe here. But I work in my own business, and have since 10 years worked in big corporations as

I am honestly not sure if I am consulting in the sense many describe here. But I work in my own business, and have since 10 years worked in big corporations as contractor. This type of assignment is impossible to get without going through the middle men that the big corp wants to source their non-employees through. So my experience is different from those that find their customers directly and negotiate directly with them. But at least around here, I think it is very hard to impossible to get a contractor assignment to a bigger company or organization without going this path. They prefer to source their consultants through "framework agreements" (not sure if it is the right English word), which no single-person-business can be a party of themselves as they are too small. Still, I have been pretty happy working this way. I may have been lucky in that the customer have appreciated the work I have done and I have had responsibilities outside of pure tech, such as acting as team manager for a technical team for example.