Savoring my second pot of pu-er tea to celebrate being jobless, and trying to keep up with this thread
Zelda, the market seems in much better shape now so I don't think finding the next contract should be a problem. I hope I don't find one too soon, because I have a very long list of things to do, and I'd like to take it easy for a few days too
I feel a bit guilty because I just left in the middle of the project I was working on, but also happy that I'm free-lance and don't have to take s**t if I don't want to. Other people on the project don't have that freedom and had to stay and take it.
About quotations, I don't make them as a free-lance because I bill strictly by the day, but I worked in several IS companies, and normally a quotation should be accompanied by a description of the work that will be done: ideally it should be a document written by the client (cahier des charges), but if there is no such document you should write that description yourself. In theory everything that is added or changed in the initial requirements should be charged separately. Of course, in practice it's all a question of commercial negotiation and power balance...