From Geek To Peak: Your First 365 Days As A Technical Consultant

by Thomas Myer

From Geek to Peak has one transform the cubicle-dwelling wage-slave geek into a successful freelancer. Are you a corporate-bound web developer, QA tester, documentation specialist, project manager, CSS maven, JavaScript guru, Rails expert, or PHP demigod?Are you about to be laid off? Is your job being moved overseas without you? Are you just plain tired of working on the same go-nowhere projects over and over? Are you up to here with all the endless meetings and reporting to a boss that knows less than you do?Do you want to make your own way in the world, but don't know how to start? Then this book is for you! It focuses specifically problems specific to technical freelancers and consultants b) issues that you will encounter in your first 365 days in business.This book is written by a seasoned technical consultant, and it will give you the inside scoop on what you need to succeed in your first year in business.

146 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2008