[bradlys]

Contract work is much harder to come by and requires a significant network. Most of the time I interacted with people doing contract work, it was because they used to be FTE at the boss’s previous company.

As far as pay goes, I don’t find many are making much more than faang pay. Most are making okay money but spending a lot of unpaid time on networking. I feel like the people I know who speak the most about contract work are those who are actually running contracting firms (not doing any work themselves), were underpaid and are now getting at market rate comparable to other FTE, and people not in the US where contract work is more typical.

[datavirtue]

I have known several people who would get contracts from those random Indian recruiter emails. If you get them coming in (like who does this on purpose,right?) and automatically filter them you can start getting good leads.

One guy I know runs two contracts at once. One of them ends...no big deal.