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After leaving a full-time role, a lot of us get asked to “stick around.”

I wrote up how to avoid getting pulled back into your old job — with worse terms and no leverage — and how to offer something cleaner instead.

Includes real-world structure, pricing, and terms.

f you’ve ever called yourself a “consultant” and then had to explain what that actually means, this might hit home. I mapped out the mess of titles and labels — consultant, freelancer, advisor, coach, fractional, etc. — and what they signal to clients. It's part taxonomy, part rant. Hope it’s useful to others trying to describe what they do.

sure - but that's _your business_ not their's right? you align with them while they need it, and realign when they dont.

and this is a value item - so if you, for example, have a client that says "we need to you look exclusive. can you pull <your practice> off your linkedin while we're working together and just show as the VPoE for us?" you say "yes and!"

and charge for it.

:)

you're not taking down your website, or shutting off your marketing - you're just tweaking one visible presence to align with a valuable customer.

but of course, they might not need you to be exclusive.

so

VP of AI & Technology - Great New Client - 2025 -

Fractional CTO - My Fractional Practice - 2019 -

might work fine too.

A short piece I wrote after a conversation with another fractional leader. It’s easy to forget that while we might not care much about titles, clients often do — especially in fundraising or external communication.

Curious how others have handled this. Do you ask what title they need you to carry?

ah a cute but soon-to-be-dead project, since they apparently are intentionally breaking the macos experience. either support your users or remove support for your users - shipping them an intentionally broken experience is a bad move.

SEEKING WORK | Remote (Florida based) | Strategic Advisor - CI/CD

Anyone with a software delivery problem they need help solving? Or maybe you don't have any CI/CD automation at all and aren't sure how to get started?

I've got an opening in my schedule and I'd love to chat!

https://www.brasstack.net/#contact

SEEKING WORK | Remote (Florida based) | Strategic Advisor - CI/CD

I'm a strategic advisor and professional mistake avoider. I help teams solve the hard problems around software delivery automation (CI/CD). Do you know anyone who would like to remove the manual steps involved in shipping their software? I can help!

I can help you decide what tools are most appropriate to your unique needs.

Have you already picked a toolkit? I've spent an inordinate amount of time working with CircleCI, but I can help regardless of the platform and tooling (I've probably worked with 90% of the major players over the years, and 30% of the minor players...). I really miss the product formerly known as Shippable. GHA? GLCI? Jenkins? Hudson? Something else? I can help.

Email me via https://www.brasstack.net/#contact or setup a quick call - https://calendly.com/draistrick/15min

Genosity | Senior DevOps Engineer | Remote (US) or Onsite (Iselin, NJ) | Full Time | https://genosity.com/

A project I'm working with is hiring a Sr DevOps Engineer.

Apply directly by emailing [email protected]

A complete job description is at https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Genosity,-Inc/Job/Senior-DevO...

Contractors are also possible, but keep in mind this is a full time role and there would be an expectation to become FTE eventually.

Tech Stack

* AWS services: Cognito, EC2, ES, RDS Postgres, Codecommit, ECR, R53, KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, S3

* Databases: Cassandra, Blazegraph, RDS Postgres, S3, Elasticsearch and ELK full stack

* Docker, Kubernetes (not EKS), kops, Helm, Grafana, Prometheus

* Iguana HL7 Integration Engine, Gitlab self-hosted CE, Ansible, Make, Python, Luigi, Kafka, Jenkins

* Java, gradle, maven, nexus, artifactory

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Genosity,-Inc/Job/Senior-DevO...

I just got confirmation on this: DevOps is not remote.

just a note: your application system is reducing your applicant stream. having to create an account, then manually fill and fix a bunch of stuff your automated resume scraper fails to handle just stops candidates who have better things to do....

when I last talked to NPR about remote ops the answer was no but that was circa '14

to be totally fair, they're probably still standing in line against draconian injustice with the last guy....