I've been a contractor since 2010. I've never had any problem finding work. I have received 1 job through my website, everything else has been through contacts.

I've been a contractor since 2010. I've never had any problem finding work. I have received 1 job through my website, everything else has been through contacts. Before contracting I had 10 years as an employee of various companies. I think it is much harder to do contracting with less than about 5 years experience, you just won't have the contacts. There is no trick to what I do, whenever I run into an old colleague, I tell them I'm contracting now. They will either have or know somebody looking for my skills. I've even gone back to companies I worked as an employee and helped them during crunch time. I think when you are employed full time, people are reluctant to make you offers, but as soon as you are a available the offers seem to appear.