How To Market Yourself

has a page full of excellent advice for the computer professional who wants to pursue consulting and contract work without dealing with recruiters.

A lot of it will sound familiar to those of the progressive political persuasion.

Remember: We are intellectuals. We are professionals. The high-tech economy is being fueled by our hard labor and the sweat of our brows, not by those who would feed off us like the prostitutes and swindlers hanging around the gold mining camps.

We're not cattle. It is totally within our power to build wonderful lives for ourselves and our clients and products for our users on our own, if only we would admit to ourselves that we can and take the power into our own hands that we were born with.