Today’s my first anniversary on the job.<\/p>\n
It’s kinda a\u00a0 big deal to me.<\/p>\n
I’ve spent most of the last fifteen years as a contractor.\u00a0 “Contracting” is sort of like “being a temp”; it pays better, but it has about the same job security.\u00a0 Contractors are usually hired to work on specific projects.\u00a0 And, as those of you in the business world know, a project is only as secure as its’ project is in-demand, or its’ sponsor is powerful and decisive.<\/p>\n
And in the past\u00a0few years I’ve\u00a0worked for some pretty superfluous projects and\/or\u00a0wussy project sponsors, apparently; several of my projects wound up getting de-funded, or (almost more irritating) going into a sort of long-term funding hibernation; the work still needed to be done, <\/em>but the powers that be didn’t quite <\/em>want it done yet<\/em>.\u00a0 Hence, I wound up on the beach, for periods ranging from two days to that hellish stretch of 2003 where I did not a lick of paid work for five months, and worked at a bare subsistence level on 3-7-day long projects for six months more.\u00a0<\/p>\n Upshot being that in the last fifteen years, I’ve worked at a total of 24 different jobs, ranging from a week to two years, averaging 6.4 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n But I’m an employee now, and have been for a year.\u00a0 I ride a bus (or, weather and schedule permitting, my bike) to the same office every day; I have for the past year, and – as much as part of me still likes the chase of being a “free-lancer”, “consultant”, contractor or temp – I kinda hope I keep doing it for a while longer.<\/p>\n So – see ya in the salt mines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s my first anniversary on the job. It’s kinda a\u00a0 big deal to me. I’ve spent most of the last fifteen years as a contractor.\u00a0 “Contracting” is sort of like “being a temp”; it pays better, but it has about the same job security.\u00a0 Contractors are usually hired to work on specific projects.\u00a0 And, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}