"Do you think you can do the job?"
"Yes"
"The job's yours. Oh, and is it true you punched Jerry Ferley?"
"No, but it was very close on a number of occasions"
And thus started my career as a contractor in the IT industry. Its been a patchy fifteen years since then, I've seen some good things, I've seen some bad things. This is a recollection of some of those things.