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So You Want To Be A Consultant

Posted by michael on from the billable-hours dept.

Stephen Friedl writes "I've been a self-employed consultant for almost 20 years - I still have my first customer! - and I'm asked often about the business by those who are considering it. It's not for everybody, and there are often surprises, so I've written up a Tech Tip that recounts my experiences and provides advice for the n00b. Executive summary: It's much more about customer service than it is about technical skill."

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  1. Re:An agrarian view to IT consulting by theapodan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Man, this is a horrible troll.

    "FreedBSD's .... and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system."

    FreeBSD has never used ext2 as its native filesystem, nor the GPL. It looks like someone just found/replaced the word linux with FreeBSD.