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5 Reasons to become a Contractor over Employee in Software Engineering
and 5 reasons why you should not do it as well!
Hello there, today I want to write about something more delicate and that touches some borderlines between your career as a Software Engineer and/or if you are aspiring to become one.
Before going down to the article, please be aware that everything that I am writing is based on my personal experience mixed with closed friends experiences. I am also an expat who doesn’t have English as my mother language, so that might diverge a bit for the ones who are not fitting the same culture that I lived until now. I also started my career in the office for 7 years in three different companies before migrating to a contractor basis for the past 7 years (such a coincidence).
Please note that this article I am very specifically targeting software engineering, programming and maybe data science field. What I write here might not fit in your field
Let’s get started
What I would like to do in this article is to collect 5 reasons to be a contractor and 5 good reasons to not be a contractor as well as talking a bit between both paths and some drawbacks. Let’s start with a full time employee position.
