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I worked under Ward (became Ajilon) for years. It was great. They gave me a choice of projects, got me good rates and I didn't have to worry about payment collection, bounced cheques etc.. My contact understood me, my skills and the technologies. I was never put up for a mismatching project.
I did some work for another agency and they weren't bad, but I did have some issues with them strong-arming me into becoming incorporated.
Neither agency insisted on exclusivity, just for me to see my contracts out and keep them informed. I switched between them and did some direct work too. Switching was never an issue, but I always played fair and told them my requirements for accepting contracts.
My guess is that the experience is going to depend on the agency and your contacts. Generally, if you do a good professional job for them, they look after you.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Better than working for them without contract...
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I compare contract work to prostitution
the company is the mark.
your agent is the pimp.
and you are just a whore.
being taken advantaged of by all.
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It also depends on where you are geographically and the economy.
I have done contracting in the New York metro area for several years and for the most part the experiences have been quite bad. Except for Credit Suisse, where I enjoyed my contracting years, the rest of the companies I have had assignments in have been pretty bad with managers who had no idea what they wanted.
Contracts were always cut and the agencies just didn't care so they rarely if ever followed up with you.
If I could find a good consulting organization that could keep me employed I would however consider going back to it from my current employment as I can't stand company politics. Yet, in New York I don't think you can find such a consulting organization...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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To be fair, I've only once worked as a "contractor" via an agency - and that's because I needed work fast. Eventually, I finally hooked up with a guy that had a broader development business, and I never looked back.
Message? Don't forget your past contacts. I've found the personal network to be very useful.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Maybe Sheldon Cooper can have a full "Fun With Flags" episode dedicated to this very subject 
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Nevermind that. What domain postfix are they going to use? They can't use .sc because that belongs to the Seychelles. Ecuador uses .ec (just in case they decide to go with Ecosse).
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.scotty? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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.fu?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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.fuk (former UK, as in FYROM...) 
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Wikipedia says .scot[^] is the answer.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's not a top level domain. Take a look at the paragraph just above the references.
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.scot is a top-level domain for Scotland ...
... Scotland would leave the United Kingdom and get its own two letter country code top-level domain (ccTLD).
Ah, so it's a TLD, but not a ccTLD. That makes sense. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yup. I believe Alex Salmond wants it to be .fu.
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The independence of Scotland has been in preparation for quite a while.
At the end of Hadrian's Wall, there's a sign that says "Cut along dotted line".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just done writing a PowerShell script that automates a task that otherwise would take up an hour of the system admin's time every day. Does the job neat and great.
This is my fist PowerShell script, such a neat and powerful language. And I wrote code today after quite a long time, gives the feeling of a really productive day. I'm having a happy feet today.
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Congratulations. Back in the late 90's when I was a Unix System Admin, I had a sign on my door that stated. "Be nice to me, or I will replace you with a script."
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Good for you.
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I spent the whole day walking through this museum[^]. It must be more than 25 years since I went there for the last time. As an excuse: I did not live here im Munich back then and would never have guessed to end up here.
Among the most memorable displays:
A Apple I which looks even cheaper than my old Netronics Elf II, which also was a kit from more or less the same time.
I walked through and around a Junkers 52 airplane.
Took a deep look into J2 rocket engine (Saturn V, second stage).
Had a good look at an A4 rocket from the fins up to the nose. The grandpa of both the Russian and American space programs.
Parked my behind on a Cray I and pretended not to know that it was not a round vistor bench
Got many pictures of the inside and outside of a Sikorsky S-55, but found no way to climb into the cockpit without getting thrown out.
Turned the propeller of a Messerschmitt 109 when nobody was looking and could not get close enough to the Messerschmitt 262 to do more than take some pictures.
And there was a Zuse Z4 on display, but I think to have heard that it's only a replica and that there are no more surviving early Zuse computers.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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CDP1802 wrote: Parked my behind on a Cray I and pretended not to know that it was not a round visitor bench
I did the same at another museum an had my wife take a picture. She got almost nothing of the "bench" that I was sitting on because she never grasped that it was the supercomputer that I was going on about.
When I visited the Deutsches Museum 20 years ago, I loved looking at an adaptive optics mirror and a cloud chamber they had setup.
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