Title: What an outdated and overblown book
Product review: This book was published in 1998, the dot com boom years. At that time anybody will an IQ above 90 can get a high paying programming job. So many advices given in this book are totally wrong today. Come on, $155 per hour for a Visual Basic contractor? It's almost impossible to land on a good pay contract job today without many years of experience on a very special field, especially with all the H-1B workers flooding the market. Believe me, I have 11 years of experience and interviewed with many contract job recruiters. Don't bother with agencies, they are GREEDY and will take 30% or more of your pay. After many fruitless tries, I opted for a full time $130K job with stock options, best part, I can work anywhere in the world and telecommute. For good programmers, good startups are better than contract jobs.
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