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by papertrail-work 1134 days ago
Consulting is always a way to go? Having a track record of success over a long period of time makes it easier for businesses to hire you. To be fair, around the 45 ish age, I would expect most folks to have evolved to a senior+ where it should be more about architecting systems and figuring out how to solve business problems then just executing on code.

I saw plenty of those folks 50+ at FANG-ish companies whilst working in the Bay but ofc that's just an anecdote.

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I'm heading toward that trail, put my time in at FAANG and it's time to move on.

Any tips on how to get started?

I'm as unclear on how to build a serious consulting shop, as I was when I was 22, a waiter with some self-taught iPhone OS experience. Which I guess makes sense, I wasn't building business relationships from deep within a FAANG org chart as a SWE.

I wrote up some tips here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3552 (based on over a decade of consulting)