[nocubicles]

I just started this today actually. Today is the first day where I am no longer employeed by any company and will need to find my own customers, invoice them etc. My field is ERP development and consultation.

I have 10+ years experience in the field and I was working for a consultation company. But on the same time I would always get messages on Linkedin from recruiters and at some point I thought I should give it a go and try to work on the projects during the nights and weekends.

Did that for like 6 months and felt I could do it full time and then I just kinda did it and will be doing it in the future.

[cableshaft]

Sounds like you got freelance work from recruiters contacting you for full-time job opportunities. How did you ask them about that, out of curiosity?

[NiagaraThistle]

I've done this - with Web Development, but still got projects this way. I just responded to the recruiter or directly to the company if I had their info, and stated my background, my rate, and asked if they were interested in working with my in a contractor capacity. It's gone very well, and I have several ongoing contracts from this process.

Basically just state that you are interested in the work, but not the current agreement and see if the company is open to hiring you as a contractor. If your experience is good and viewable/provable, they probably will be. And Bonus points if you are a good communicator and timely with such and delivering deadlines - many contractors are not and companies/recruiters get burned by them and those who ARE dependable are worth their weight in gold to companies.

[nocubicles]

I always told them that i'm not looking full time but only part time but that only did work once I think. Most success came from building a small persona online, participating in the discussions, networking on Discords/Twitter and then the opportunities came.

[MuffinFlavored]

how different are WMS and ERP?

[yellowapple]

An ERP often includes (some approximation of) a WMS (usually as an addon or module or such), but usually not the other way around. There's usually overlap (like inventory and order management), but a typical ERP doesn't handle the minutiae of receiving/picking/packing/shipping like a WMS does (and when an ERP does attempt those things, it's rarely done well - though to be fair there are about as many shitty standalone WMS implementations as there are shitty WMS-as-ERP-addon implementations).