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Flexible time / 4 days a week contract? [closed]

I am developer. Is it possible to find a contract (London, UK) with flexi-time or part-time features? E.g. - 4 days, 10 hours /day - 1 day off or just 4 standard days a week?
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Contractor in UK - flexible time? [closed]

I am a developer. I'd like to start my own start-up project but I do not have enough time and money. I cannot go part-time because my expenses are close to my income. One of my ideas is to switch ...
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How do you know if you're an underpaid developer? [closed]

I have been having a lot of discussions with developers on being paid fairly. I'm curious how do you define being underpaid? And what do you do to fix that problem? This is the article that caused ...
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Starting consulting while employed - conflict of interest

First of all I am not after legal advice. This is a bit TL;DR but I have a summary at the bottom, I'm explaining it all so people can offer insightful advise. Situation I need to explain my present ...
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Applying for job: how to showcase work done for (private) past clients?

I want to apply for my first "real" (read: non-freelance) Ruby on Rails job. I've built several apps already. My best work (also the most logically complicated app) was for a freelance client, and ...
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4answers
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How does someone with a business degree become a software consultant?

I'm a 4th year computer engineering student from a reputable university in Toronto and i'm curious as to how some of these software consulting positions with the large firms (Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, ...
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1answer
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All what I need to start with freelancer career [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What to learn to become freelancer? Its been 18 months I have been working in IT industry as an Android and Iphone developer. And now I want to start something at my ...
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What are the preconditions to get an experienced developer from working as a freelancer to owning a small software company? [closed]

I've been a software developer for 8 years. I've worked on about 20 projects, some smaller, some bigger. I know how to help myself by using google magic, msdn, youttube, tutorials, how-to's etc. I'm ...
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Does taking a series of contracts hurt your career?

So I've been contracting for 6-7 months now. The problem I have is that I take a contract while looking for work and then don't want to bail on the people working in my contract. Then when the ...