After spending the last year as a contractor for ASPSOFT (working mostly from home), I am on my own. ASPSOFT ran into a shortage of work which for small consulting firm makes things tough.
So where do I go from here? I’m really not sure honestly. Obviously, if work picks up for ASPSOFT then I might be able to go back there, but I’m not going to sit around waiting. I really like working from home. I like the flexibility. It also helps that my home is perfect for doing this. I have an office in a separate section of my house.
Prior to ASPSOFT, I worked for TechData (the often “nameless” company) which is a fairly large corporation. I hated it! I’m not meant for major amounts of company politics.
At the moment one could call me a “freelance author” since I am writing a couple white papers for a company that sells developer tools (that’s all the more I will say). There may be more of this type of work in the future, but right now we’ll see; it pays OK, but not really enough to for a full-time job. It works for the moment.
I also have a little bit of contracting lined up, but I know that won’t last forever (one of which is some Ajax stuff). I need to consider a few other options… I’m thinking about trying to work out a deal with some contracting firms to handle subcontract some of their extra work.
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