Reply #5: Locally, independent contractors aren't. [View All]

[DavidDvorkin]

I did that for a few years, but that was quite a few years ago. Nowadays in Denver, with rare exceptions, companies get their contractors through contracting companies.

I've sent my resume to those places, too. Got a couple of nibbles but no follow up.

Right now, contractors face the same problem in Denver as would-be permanent employees. There are so many techies out of work that employers are being very demanding. They want you to have exactly the experience they need for a current project, and many years of it. If you have almost that technical experience, that's not good enough. They're not interested in training you on the job.

Actually, that's always been a problem for contractors. In the good old days (i.e., the Golden Clinton Years), employers were willing, to various degrees, to train permanent employees on the job, but even then they didn't want to do that for contractors.