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This is the easy bit. Finding quality, well paid work, that's the hard bit. It renders all the rest of it a bit irrelevant.
by colinramsay 11y ago
This is the easy bit. Finding quality, well paid work, that's the hard bit. It renders all the rest of it a bit irrelevant.
- peteretep 11y agoMy experience (and that of many coworkers I've had) - unless you've really pissed in the pool, there is an unending supply of good contracts in London.
- colinramsay 11y agoPerhaps true but: - Are any remote? I mean who wants to live in London? ;) - How do you find them in the first place?
- peteretep 11y ago> - Are any remote? I mean who wants to live in London? ;) Generally not. One of my current clients allows their normal contractors to do 50% working from home. > - How do you find them in the first place? Recruiters and IRC
- squinn2 11y agoAnyone know what the market's like for embedded s/w development these days? ~ 15 years ago (ouch) recall we were using a lot of contractors for protracted periods & had to keep them sweet for fear they might just skip off to another job. Didn't make the transition then. Always wondered ..
- pyb 11y agoEmbedded contracting in the UK is dead atm. I found that in the field, most contract vacancies from agents are fake. As for the few hw startups, they're mostly unfunded.