> Posted by Mohamed Hayibor on Sat, Aug 31, 31089<p>I mean, if I were a time traveller, I wouldn't be spending my limited output on this sort of stuff ;)<p>More seriously - to me this guy seems a bit.. I dunno, try hard? Like they want to prove something about how aggressive they are.<p>You don't need to be all "gogogo" to do contracting.<p>The last bit is kind of illustrative. I think they've had bad experiences in the past and are perhaps recovering from burnout in some way. This post doesn't look like a good sign to me in that context.
I feel like I'm reading half of an argument here. Is this a response to something? Who in the world works for free when they're doing contract work?
<i>80% of my clothes are sportwears for a long time. It gives the feeling that you are a pro. A professional athlete, and a professional at your career, your performance totally relies on you.</i><p>Nothing looks more professional than someone sitting at a desk in yoga pants or a tracksuit. Yes indeed.<p>You know what else looks professional? A military or public services uniform. This guy should get a firefighter outfit to wear while sitting at a desk typing code. Then he'll feel really professional.
> A quick litmus test: if you’re getting paid by the hour. You’re not a full time employee. You’re a contractor.<p>That's utterly ridiculous. There are so many jobs where this is not true from flipping burgers to civil engineering. Clearly the author hasn't thought this out at all.
It never feels like the contractor is an "expert" in a field, is any more efficient than another employee and is nothing more than another person that has been hired to do programming with less HR/employment overhead.<p>So not sure which audience this article is aimed at.<p>Maybe my experience in London doesn't reflect other places but as a contract and as someone who has looked for contractors it never felt like we got anyone special. They were another person and they took just as long to on board and become efficient.
I find the term 'full time' unnecessarily ambiguous.<p>Certainly 'employee' suggests something contra to 'contractor', but there's no reason someone working 40 hours a week can't or shouldn't be considered full-time regardless of their permanent / contractor status.<p>I can't tell if this is irony, in the context of being 'precise in your communications' and advice to 'edit ruthlessly':<p>> You must ruflessly cut out bullshit, bloat, ...
I'm a contractor and make more than I would as a full time employee. Companies also don’t tend to overwork me because they need to pay for every hour.
>If you’re a full-time employee who must go to the office, you have to dress the part. If you look different than your peers, you look ridiculous and out of place.<p>I have been full time employee in my whole career, no one had really told me what to wear. I have been to office in sportswear and no one seems to mind that. I don't think this point is necessarily true at least in tech.
It depends on the firm. At some non-tech firms, being an independent is the only way to get higher cash. (Not universal) In this case an expert developer who doesn’t want to manage people escapes junior level salary bands.