While 2 months is short, if you don't want short(ish) term contracts of six to twelve months, awesome. Leaves more for me.
I've got around 18 years experience in a variety of tech stacks, being a contractor/consultant is great. Come on board, either create a brand new piece for the client or help them with an existing problem, deliver, move on.
God save me from rotting away in a corner at some huge corporate for years, pretending to care about the company vision. I've done my time at that.
It helps me that here in the UK the market seems to be upside-down, compared to the US - Contractors are usually more highly skilled and almost always better paid than staff.
That all said, that two month estimate had better be a well understood problem domain, with well defined requirements and a realistic amount of work, because most contracts that small are not, and you'll end up two months down the line with the client wanting to extend a month at a time and all sorts of pressure.
While 2 months is short, if you don't want short(ish) term contracts of six to twelve months, awesome. Leaves more for me.
I've got around 18 years experience in a variety of tech stacks, being a contractor/consultant is great. Come on board, either create a brand new piece for the client or help them with an existing problem, deliver, move on.
God save me from rotting away in a corner at some huge corporate for years, pretending to care about the company vision. I've done my time at that.
It helps me that here in the UK the market seems to be upside-down, compared to the US - Contractors are usually more highly skilled and almost always better paid than staff.
That all said, that two month estimate had better be a well understood problem domain, with well defined requirements and a realistic amount of work, because most contracts that small are not, and you'll end up two months down the line with the client wanting to extend a month at a time and all sorts of pressure.