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Hi HN,

I've been a contract web developer for a full year now after two years of salaried work.

I work in the Atlanta area, and am making $77/hr at a great company here. I always get 40 hours of work a week, so I should come out somewhere around $160k at the end of the year. This sort of money is unheard of here, the absolute best money I've seen for a full time developer role here is probably $120k.

It seems to me like I'm getting an extremely good deal, but I have a sinking feeling that I am missing something. Most guys my age are doing regular salary work for half the pay. I can't see what justification there is for doing this.

Am I missing something by not committing to a company? I don't think I necessarily have the interpersonal/ office politics skill to get into some executive role at this time, and I don't see why I can't do that down the road.

Can anyone here argue for a salaried job in my situation? I feel like I'm missing something.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me!

Hey guys,

Just started out full time contract work this year with some great success. I've worked on some very well known web sites.

Is it ok for me to list these websites in my resume? Do you guys do this? Including these projects in my resume would make it much more impressive and would lend me a great amount of credibility to potential contracts that I'm looking for.

On the other hand I'm not sure if this would be a breach of an NDA agreement or not. And what if I haven't signed an NDA?

My rule of thumb has been to only talk about projects that I've worked on that could be deduced from publicly availible information, but I'm not sure even this is ok.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me!