[marshmellman]

I recently tried the freelancing thing for a couple years, and I’m not sure about this as general advice for experienced engineers. I found it difficult to find gigs paying similar to what I had been making as a FTE, and I found it stressful to frequently negotiate contracts and sell/market myself.

[smackeyacky]

I am doing this at the moment. I am very lucky to have a few contacts around places I used to work that are offering short term contracts. So i'm good for the moment but if that dried up I would be struggling.

Breaking out of the "I know a dude who knows a dude" circle is actually a lot harder than people think. I'm going to give it a crack though.

And if you're reading this and have some unsolveable problem to crack around the .NET, node, Unix space, hit me up. I may be the most stubborn man on the planet when it comes to hard problems.