Curious about contracting

[dreamshark]

The more I think about it, the more I think I would enjoy contracting (or better yet, Consulting) at this point in my life. I'm tired of committing my heart to new companies only to be disappointed and abandoned. I'm tired of falling in love with a product only to find that product management has lost interest in it before it's even released. I'd like to just provide a service to somebody, give them my best work, know when I'm done, and leave on an upbeat note.

So, I'm looking for tips. Anybody have an engineering-oriented consulting/contracting company they would like to recommend? Or maybe you work someplace that could benefit from an experienced QA professional coming in to analyze requirements, write up some test plans, maybe manage a short-term testing cycle. Or, better yet, design a technical training course (for either customers or internal audience). Networking is my specialty, but I like to think I'm pretty good at picking up the details of almost any technical project and identifying the key concepts (which is the first step in either a training plan or a test plan).

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[daedala.livejournal.com]

www.dice.com

[michaellee.livejournal.com]

That's one of the things that I've found most appealing about consulting/contracting. (There are downsides as well, of course.)

Have you posted your resume on the major job sites? [Monster, Hotjobs, techies.com, and so on] You might hear from some from there.

Many of the QA departments I've seen have been filled with contractors -- Kelly Technical Services, Robert Half Technology, Adecco (probably have the spelling wrong there), and others...

BTW, apparently there is a job fair next Wedensday:

When: October 1st, 2003
2:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Where: Embassy Suites Airport South
7901-34th Avenue South
Bloomington, MN 554225

Pre-register for the October 1st Job Fair by visiting our website at:
www.employmentplanet.com

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

I found Adecco, and somehow followed it backwards to end up here:

Software Contractor's Guild

GREAT resource for SW contractors: check it out!

The Adecco page was weird. A very nicely set up webpage, very easy to register your resume on, so I did. But when I searched for jobs - ANY jobs, anywhere - the search turned up nothing.