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After reading most of the posts in this discussion, I really feel like people here see contractors as uninvested workers. I always invest 100% of myself in every single project I join as a contractor, and this is very important for me, which makes me read your comments like insults to what I do.

My age and relative lack of typical corporate experience may of course give me a bad vision of the market. Maybe most contractors are not working the way I do, which would make the advice Jessica gives a bad one. But even in this case, generalization may prevent you from working with interesting people.

Disclaimer: I'm working as a self employed engineer, mostly doing jobs with my team, and far from being someone "who would prefer a fulltime job but can't get one".