If there is one major difference I can point out between software developers that went to school on CS education and those that didn't, it's that the ones that did not go to college for CS did not necessarily seek alternative sources for CS. They go head-first into programming concepts.What we get from that is a more varied mixture on how much CS fundamentals these self-taught programmers know....
Being simultaneously under-qualified on paper and over-qualified in practice is a thing with me. People must think I expect high salaries but I actually don't. I've always been paid roughly in the lowest 25 percentile.
I don't get offers from full-time jobs. I only get a few from short contracts. And if I apply to full-time jobs exclusively I would get no offers at all.
RIP.
Do you have a system in place for choosing people on LinkedIn to reach out to? I don't know what's a good starting point- seeking in local companies first or with companies that are just related to my developer niche. In job boards I tend to email blast a lot of applications.
And yeah, I haven't really felt part of a team since 2010. Contract jobs can wreck your visibility if you're not skilled in tailoring your connections.
Like I have been told I do great work but they never want to re-engage for more work. Not in six months, not in two or four years.
And I'm also concerned about the 1 year 10 times experience. The longest I have maintained a single project has been 2 years but again that was from working remotely for a startup. I'm supposed to be able to make a big impact at tiny startups but I didn't get that feeling there.
As long as you can keep your current job, that is.
As a software engineer, I have about 10 years of experience in the industry, and working for 7 different companies.But zero promotions or pay raises within any company. I have no experience managing or training others. I only get pay raises when I change companies, but not by much.I don't know if always being contractor has anything to do with the above. Since my very first job out of college...