My life as a contractor continues. It is taking a while to get used to. Instead of getting a steady stream of interruptions and ever shifting priorities, there is concern if anything is wasting your time. One day my email stopped working on the computer, and it took more than 4 hours to fix – the escalation was impressive after that and I had a new computer the next morning.
We had our first set-back today, where we have uncovered a bug in the .NET framework effecting our design so a few hours have been burnt proving the problem and devising workarounds. Hopefully, we are full steam ahead again.
Something that I naively didn’t realise is that there would be such a long time between issuing my invoice, getting paid into my company account and THEN (the important bit) getting a figure from the accountant for the amount I can pay myself. It’ll be worth it in the end, I’m sure.
I can see it’ll take a few contracts to settle into the routine where the vagaries of when money comes in becomes unimportant, where issues such as contract renewal and having another contract to go on to are minor niggles – talking to my fellow contractors, they just take it in their stride – so I have to learn to do the same.
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