Pros and Cons Of Consulting vs Full Time Employment Part 2
I’ve decided to expand on my original article on the Pros and Cons Of Consulting vs Full Time Employment. Perhaps I seemed a little biased towards consulting in my original article this is my attempt to balance the pros and cons so they are a little more even.
More Full Time Employee Pros
Working in a few different companies over the past few years I have come to the conclusion that as a consultant you really never fully understand the capabilities of a companies system during the time you work on a given project. You really just learn the system well enough to do your job and not much more. As a full time employee you’re usually on a job a long enough time that you actually start to understand a company’s system better. This allow you to better understand projects which makes life easier for the coder in the long run.
Not to mention another great perk of full time employment is that you usually get regular vacation time which is something that you don’t normally get as a consultant.
Thursday, April 17th, 2008