I used to have a common name, dozens of us in every major city, impossible to tell who was me in a Google search. So I legally changed my name to a unique identifier. And no, it's not a random jumble of letters (in fact I only swapped two letters). Now I own the domain names and *all* my google results.
Downside: I have to be extra careful not to post anything even vaguely incriminating under my real name. And you probably want to make sure to snag your uid at every service that becomes popular.
If you are absolutely essential to them and there is no other way they can keep you then great, but in most cases they might as well hire a full time person instead.
Yes, might as well keep the req open for 6 months while their project falls even more behind.
What the original poster should do is find a job that he will kick-ass at (even if it is below their full-time level) that is listed as potentially either full-time or contract. Then take it as a contract, kick ass at a part-time level, and after a few months, suggest to his boss that he would love to work permanently at the company but is most effective at the part-time level he's been working at. The company won't go for it, but at least he'll have worked part-time for a few months.
Wasn't this Infinium's primary business model before their fearless leaders were charged with fraud (unrelated)? They would stream old games with a "proprietary technology" that was basically over-the-network virtual memory with pre-caching based on data collected from local runs.
Pretty clever, I guess. I wish modern games like WoW would do something like this. It definitely reduces my impulse game purchases, knowing that I'll have to wait 8 hours to download content that I may not ever see. On the other hand, maybe this is a good thing...
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I used to have a common name, dozens of us in every major city, impossible to tell who was me in a Google search. So I legally changed my name to a unique identifier. And no, it's not a random jumble of letters (in fact I only swapped two letters). Now I own the domain names and *all* my google results. Downside: I have to be extra careful not to post anything even vaguely incriminating under my real name. And you probably want to make sure to snag your uid at every service that becomes popular.
If you are absolutely essential to them and there is no other way they can keep you then great, but in most cases they might as well hire a full time person instead.
Yes, might as well keep the req open for 6 months while their project falls even more behind. What the original poster should do is find a job that he will kick-ass at (even if it is below their full-time level) that is listed as potentially either full-time or contract. Then take it as a contract, kick ass at a part-time level, and after a few months, suggest to his boss that he would love to work permanently at the company but is most effective at the part-time level he's been working at. The company won't go for it, but at least he'll have worked part-time for a few months.
Pretty clever, I guess. I wish modern games like WoW would do something like this. It definitely reduces my impulse game purchases, knowing that I'll have to wait 8 hours to download content that I may not ever see. On the other hand, maybe this is a good thing...