Ask HN: Where to find contract work as a developer?
Either here or on reddit I've seen plenty of people mention the option of working as a contractor as a viable option. I have been working as a developer for 12 years. For the first six years of my career I wrote C++ / Python for a finance-adjacent firm. The second half of my career has been the typical full-stack developer stuff. Django / Pyramid / SQLAlchemy backend and several different front-end frameworks like Vue and React. It's enough to say that I'm a generalist and a decent enough programmer. I'd love the ability to work a contract for 6 months to a year and then take a few months off between gigs. But when I search for contract opportunities they seem somewhat rare. Additionally, the contract gigs I find seem to be seeking people who would prefer full-time employment but would settle for the contract as a sort of 'probationary' measur
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Either here or on reddit I've seen plenty of people mention the option of working as a contractor as a viable option. I have been working as a developer for 12 years. For the first six years of my career I wrote C++ / Python for a finance-adjacent firm. The second half
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- wayne_skylar
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews