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> > Barry, you are making the common mistake of not considering the
> > ample benefits that, typically, the employee gets that the
> > contractor does not that are built into the formula.
I was a contractor for about 18 years with a period of about a year
where I was an employee.
I'm now back to being an employee, since April, and the reason I came
over was education...I was getting stale. As a contractor, you usualy
not only pay for your education (hundreds or thousands at a clip) but
the time you are taking off to learn, you aren't payed for. This can
result in multiple thousands of dollars of cost per year.
Where I am now, educational oppotunities are, it seems, forced on me.
In my MBO goals, I HAVE to have some profesional development items. I
also have, at my discretion, about $5,200 per year in money that I
can spend how I want without management approval. Toward that, I'm
currently taking a UNIX Administrator college course at my local
college every Monday night. I'm in training on UML during the day all
next week, a week of Six Sigma next month, two XML conferences since
April, and I've been through three multi-day and week-long courses on
other stuff already.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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