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Perfectly fine. The question is how to demonstrate the skills that you have gained, showed promotion, etc
Chief
Be a cereal contractor. Fruit loops is always looking for warm bodies.
Chief
You could be a serial contractor your entire career. Nothing at all wrong with it.
Now, making sure you have contracts lined up all the time is a different matter, but there's nothing wrong with remaining a contractor.
Pro
I really read that first sentence wrong
Go ahead, but contractors in Tech are definitely not treated as well as employees nor do they make as much by any stretch of the imagination.