So you want to be a consultant or a contractor?
When I have told tales of some of the contracts and consultancy gigs I have worked, people think it sounds pretty nice. There’s a big bill rate, you escape some of problems of being an employee, what could possibly go wrong, right?
Not always. Sometimes it is no [...]
Toorcamp was many things this year.
It was fun.
It was uncomfortable.
Dustdevils ate things occasionally.
It was turbulent due to the trouble with Levitate to get hackers to help promote their event for free or they wouldn’t fulfill their agreement to let us use the missile facility for talks and workshops.
There was some excellent music.
There were fine people in attendance as it took some dedication and preparation to get out there and stay there.
Enough said about that. I was expecting more problems. More can be found at the Toorcamp wiki.
My presentation at this Toorcon Seattle area hacker retreat was concerned itself with three main points.
- How to get a job in todays market
- Identifying the common players and bad actors in todays organizations
- How I recommend dealing with them
I entitled my talk Hacking HR in the traditional usage of the word hack. I’ve seen a lot of usage that uses “hack” as a synonym for small tips on how to accomplish obvious tasks. This isn’t how I use the word.
Anyway, let’s get started.
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