Title: I&#x27;ve been looking for contract work for the past couple months, and it&#x27;s been dire. All the job boards are looking for full time employees, and on Hacker News the only recommendation is Toptal.<p>Is there really no other platform for decently paid contract work that&#x27;s not a complete race to the bottom? I find I&#x27;m close to having to abandon 10 years of consulting because I have no idea where to find anything else than full-time employment.<p>The other two job boards I&#x27;ve been keeping an eye on are mostly about React and other frontend roles, with offers few and far between. Linkedin is similarly dire for contract work.<p>Is Toptal the only option for someone with 16 years experience that wouldn&#x27;t want to work for peanuts? Or just going back to being an employee?<p>(In case anyone&#x27;s reading that&#x27;s looking for a senior Elixir&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;Go engineer&#x2F;sysadmin, resume&#x27;s in my profile. I&#x27;m based in London.)<p>EDIT: excellent responses so far, thanks. I like how many are suggesting going through recruiters, while the common motif on other similar posts is to avoid LinkedIn. I&#x27;ve started cleaning up my Linkedin profile this week, and I already have a dozen recruiters setting up appointments with me. I will try and explicitly request contract jobs with them.
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