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Re:Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate by pc86 on Friday August 26, 2022 @12:10PM (#32609251)
You need contacts/referrals to start. If you don't have those, you're going to end up getting very low-paid shit work for shit people.

Nearly half of my contracts have been former employers, or companies where a former manager/coworker was and got me an interview. The rest have been referrals from those companies. Cold outreach or inbound is a small minority (<10% for sure).

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Re:Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate by ciekawy on Friday August 26, 2022 @12:22PM (#32609415)
as for how to start there are also contracting companies like eg Toptal with decent amount of projects from variety of companies from startups to enterprises and you're setting your own rate - probably not above the median but still good enough to start.
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