I know its been a long time since I’ve written about my adventures of being an independent consultant – but here is a quick note about a lesson I learned yesterday.
For the past 2+ years, things have been going well and I have some great clients and interesting projects with them. However, recently I’ve been looking at a subcontract type job – and yesterday a thought occurred to me after doing pretty lousy on a tech screening call:
When you deal with small businesses as your clients – they need to be confident that you can solve their technical problems and need you to be able to communicate to them in their language.
So after 2 years of working with small businesses, I’ve gotten use to communicating in their language … and I’ve fallen out of love and out of date with technical trivia.
The point of this is: if you plan to do any subcontracting type jobs and are being hired based on your technical expertise – you better get your technical communication and trivia back up to speed … especially if you say you know a technology well … you better know the trivia too.