[kermatt]

.com boom was full of 3-6 month contract roles, where each new contract was an opportunity to improve cash compensation.

Improving earnings via job-hopping is nothing new, the difference may be in the other reasons people hop.

[marstall]

this was me! carried on steadily until 2011 when i had my first kid. FTE since. My first contract was in 1996, 3 months at $50/hr in an office park in the east bay. Final contract was 6 months at $130/hr on the top floor of the Prudential Building in Boston. Being a Software engineer has been an amazing career!

[sen]

Yeah I mostly did 3-6mth contracts from ~96-2005 then a contract offered me a very generous FTE role to stay.

I loved contract work and probably could’ve done it forever but marriage/kids changed what I look for in a job.