{"id":1229,"date":"2013-07-30T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2013-07-30T11:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:51:39","slug":"my-interview-with-contractor-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/my-interview-with-contractor-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"My Interview with Contractor Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I gave a telephone interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contractorcalculator.co.uk\/contractor_interview_peter_pilgrim_444610_news.aspx\"><strong>Contractor Calculator<\/strong><\/a> about the my feelings, thoughts and the progression of my career into and out and back into of contracting. It&#8217;s has been bad and good. (At the time of writing, it is good again, just in case you&#8217;re wondering.) The 30 minutes long conversation was distilled into a professionally\u00a0<a title=\"My Interview with Contractor Calculator\" href=\"https:\/\/www.contractorcalculator.co.uk\/contractor_interview_peter_pilgrim_444610_news.aspx\">written interview<\/a>, which was copied by <strong>Michael Doggweiler<\/strong>. <a title=\"Dave Chaplink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.contractorcalculator.co.uk\/ec_dave_chaplin.aspx\"><strong>David Chapin<\/strong><\/a>, CEO of Contractor Calculator, got in touch with me asked whether I would consider being interviewed about my experience and I agreed to the interview. David had read my recent <a title=\"I am an IT contractor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1161\">blog entry: <em>I am an IT contractor<\/em><\/a>. His company also publishes a book called <em>Contractor&#8217;s Handbook<\/em>, which on the face of it has solid non-technical advice for beginners and experienced contractors. I also got a chance to plug my upcoming book: <a title=\"Java EE 7 Developer Handbook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/java-ee-7-developer-handbook\/book\">Java EE 7 Developer Handbook<\/a>. From this interview, I learnt that there are all sorts of contractors out there from project managers, managers and supervisor; facilitators and negotiators, architects and testers to software developers. We must stick together and provide the<em> best value-add<\/em> that we can for our industry and naturally for clients. What else are we supposed to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I gave a telephone interview with Contractor Calculator about the my feelings, thoughts and the progression of my career into and out and back into of contracting. It&#8217;s has been bad and good. (At the time of writing, it is good again, just in case you&#8217;re wondering.) The 30 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,58,164,59,117,120,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}