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RE: Contracting (an off-shoot from "Closed Group of Writers)
Subject:RE: Contracting (an off-shoot from "Closed Group of Writers) From:"Sharon Burton" <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:32:19 -0800
As a contractor, you are there to do a job and do it as fast as possible to
work yourself out of a job as soon as you can.
If people talk to you, that's nice, but it may not happen. I've had
contracts where I literally talked to no one the entire day, day after day
(being an extrovert, I nearly exploded at the end of the day - I called
everyone I knew on the drive home, just to talk words to someone). I just
worked on putting the help file together and that's what I was hired to do.
I've had other contracts where people chatted with me all day and we had
drinks after work.
Employees frequently don't put any effort into knowing contractors because
we are blips on the employee radar screen. Nature of contracting. Waste no
time thinking about this.
sharon
Sharon Burton
CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting
951-369-8590
www.anthrobytes.com
President of IESTC
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Subject: Contracting
About a month ago, I scored a contracting gig. I
haven't been writing for awhile, and my past writing
jobs were all full-time, permanent.
...
My question is what to expect (comraderie speaking)
from pubs groups (in general) as a contractor? I'm
not expecting to be hugged or taken to lunch(!!), but
a hello down the hall after I say hi would be cool.
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