[maerF0x0]

I used this once when I was laid off. Worked for about 1/2 my salary to start, but was employed in like a day or two. (And still had 4 weeks of severance coming in). Once i had a bunch of 5* reviews I was able to command more than I was previously earning. (I was pretty Junior at the time).

One caveat is that Contracting time is kinda a career blackhole in that if you go back to employment you're both kinda weird because you're used to contracting, and a lot of managers/interviewers don't really know how to see you're experience when you're doing 3 month contracts, sometimes layered, over the span of years. They don't really get it. (Nor realize that contracting is usually really dense experience, so actually more valuable)

[Gortal278]

It's best to group all the contract work under a self-employed listing on your resume. Highlight the technical work but also the project managements skills used, the client facing tie and the delivery of work on a given timeline.

I did a few years of contracting/freelance and since i re-wrote my resume it looks better, and seems to be valued the same as fte.

[euix]

Can you be more specific as to what was the nature of the work you were doing? Was it software dev, analytics, etc and can share a rough range of what your initial $ rate was? Also did you ever represent yourself as an agency?

A couple of friends and I have been doing a casual consulting agency for just under a year and I was thinking of ways to expand our client base and I am looking at Upwork as a possibility.