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Re:Is the Rise of Contract Workers Killing Upward Mobility? by maxxxxx on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:09AM (#15391821)
Unfortunately for every qualified contractor you have 20 clueless people hired from some body shop who make a mess of things. Good contractors are a rare breed.
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Re:Is the Rise of Contract Workers Killing Upward Mobility? by Nursie on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:45AM (#15392001)
Eh, so are good employees are in the UK.

I've been contracting five years, and the state of software engineering seems woeful in the small and medium sized countries of the UK.

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Re:Is the Rise of Contract Workers Killing Upward Mobility? by Balero on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:06PM (#15393410)
As is the state of software engineering pay, and being lumped in with "IT".
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Re:Is the Rise of Contract Workers Killing Upward Mobility? by Nursie on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:01AM (#15392859)
s/countries/companies/

Could have sworn I fixed that...

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Re:Is the Rise of Contract Workers Killing Upward Mobility? by zimpenfish on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:10AM (#15392919)
To be fair, the UK is made of up small and medium countries.
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