I&#x27;m a contractor&#x2F;independent currently contracted to a financial company and a telecoms company concurrently. I have about 18 years&#x27; experience in total and have been on the contract market for 12 years.<p>The things that matter when you&#x27;re starting to work independently (which I screwed up I will add) are building contacts and getting out of the agency system as soon as possible. Also I&#x27;m a bad accountant but YMMV if that interests you. If you can, don&#x27;t work on their site; remote work is far nicer.