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This article is one in a series on creating or establishing your personal brand and becoming a leader in your industry.
While creating your personal brand is not easy, the benefits speak for themselves; other professionals begin to seek you out, ask for your assistance or offer you compensation in exchange for your help, services or advice.
Creativity is sometimes frowned upon in the workplace because you are expected to follow orders!
Perhaps you’ve neglected using your creative forces in the past because it forces others to think or so that you can keep your head down and stop others from following you!
Who is a contract programmer?
A contract programmer is a software developer who is paid an hourly rate for working on special software development projects for a period. Contract computer programmers are not paid salaries like full-time developers but hourly wages.
Contract programmers tend to be very project focused because they are hired to solve specific problems or code specific features and as soon as that is done, they have to move on to another project or find a new client.
Do you have what it takes to be a contract software developer (W2) or a full time permanent computer programmer (FTE)?Or perhaps you have heard that contract programming is unreliable and full time employment financially unrewarding?
Enough of the myths. There are long term contracts that last longer than some full time positions and there are full time positions that pay better than some contract programming engagements.
Here are the differences which you need to be aware of:
- Job Duration
- Benefits
- Job Satisfaction
- Paycheck
- Technical Skills
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