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[…] either a generalist or a specialist doesn’t dictate your employment status as a contractor, consultant, or full time employee. However, generally I find that generalists are FTEs or contractors, and specialists tend to be […]

Who is the 23yo?

If what is what a consultant is?

What was it like making the transition from software engineer to software engineering consultant?

Do you think that there are not engineering consultants making five figures a week?

Are you prepared or capable of making that transition?

You don't. You just pick the ones that are in a hiring freeze or actually see the value of what you can demonstrably deliver in a quick turnaround time

What's preventing a software developer from doing enterprise software consulting?

What does that mean?

What exactly do you need answered about the "how"?

Are you a consultant?

Who is Steve Yegge?

Are they in-person jobs?

Why can they not maintain that level of marketing? What is stopping them?

Are you consulting on one project at a time, or multiple?

Did you start the first agency? What was its niche?

Would it be easy to find these clients?

Can a consultant do any kind/type of work?

Where do you live?

Thank you. Do you think that someone who is good at writing software can not learn to market themselves to become well known?

Have you done consulting jobs where you never set foot in the office?

Your agency has 10 people? Was you the first person in your agency?

Do you think there are 1-5 person companies doing millions annually with an ecom site?

Does something like that exist for software consulting?

What do you do now?

You think being a consultant is as rare as becoming an actor?

Do you think they cared that you spent 12 hours on setup?

Would this be a software consultant or a management consultant?

Would you want to do more consulting?

What if it's not website traffic or ecom sales you are increasing? What if the payoff is 6 months down the road?