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Re: Should I take a contract position?

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On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:28:57 -0700 (PDT), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

> The ke=
>y is to be comfortable with the temporary nature, and productive immediatel=
>y upon start of each assignment.

That is very true.  In the olden days an employer would take you on
expecting you to hang in there for a decade or more. They would invest
in both your formal and informal education.  Today they want you to
hit the ground running, fully up to speed on all the specific
technologies they use.  If you need to bring yourself up to speed,
that is not billable time.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
When you were a child, if you did your own experiment
to see if it was better to put to cocoa into your cup first
or the hot milk first, then you likely have the programmer gene..

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Should I take a contract position? kramer31 <kramer.newsreader@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 16:21 -0700
  Re: Should I take a contract position? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 18:28 -0700
    Re: Should I take a contract position? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-04 13:07 -0700
      Re: Should I take a contract position? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-04 14:52 -0700
  Re: Should I take a contract position? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-04 13:01 -0700
    Re: Should I take a contract position? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-04-04 19:27 -0300
  Re: Should I take a contract position? William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2012-04-04 16:05 -0400
    Re: Should I take a contract position? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-04 18:20 -0700
      Re: Should I take a contract position? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-04-05 07:02 -0300
  Re: Should I take a contract position? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-04-04 23:27 +0300

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