Re: outsourcing/consultancy experiences anyone?


"mc" <look@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The biggest thing to remember about consulting is that you cannot get 8
billable hours a day (if you're honest). You will be able to bill about
half of that. A remarkable amount of your time is taken up maintaining
your
own tools, making contacts, keeping records, etc., rather than doing
billable work.



Thanks for the answers, but I am afraid some of you are misunderstanding the
question. Here in Europe (at least) there are plenty of companies (like the
one I cited) that hire all kinds of engineers. They are paid by this company
and rented to other companies as "consultants" for several months where they
do their thing (hardware/software/management/etc). Very common in software
engineering. It is like a specialised temp agency except that once they hire
you, you become their employee and they pay you, project or not. So if
you're lucky you do many interesting projects in many different companies,
but if you are less lucky you sit all day in some office sipping coffee.
I've been approached by several of these companies (as I said, they are
plenty) but I have never met an electronics engineer that works for such a
company and I would like to hear some stories if possible before going any
further.

Thanks,
--DF


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