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Draft stock templates for things like proposals and contracts. This is an amazing education in how to run a business or practice end to end. It teaches you about parts of a business that you may well never have experienced: operations, finance, etc. Whatever your ambitions, you make a much more credible consultant when you have end to end knowledge of how a business works. One such thing is being a generalist. Being a generalist makes for a good long-term laboring employee, but not so much for a consultant, due to the lack of a specific value proposition.

You need to develop a much more specific niche. Become an expert in something specific that matters to people. Of course, you can bill yourself as a generalist, or even a relatively niche consultant with an hourly rate. Develop an offering beyond time for money. Offer a roadmap or a specific consultation or something.

Start making some money as a brain and not hands! The beauty of consulting — selling knowledge and expertise — is that you can offer this service with a very small scope. But as a consultant, you can bill figures for a single day of work, assuming that you have valuable enough expertise.

Even as you keep your day job, start looking for targeted consulting opportunities. This will, of course, make you money, which is always great. But it will also let you do a kind of end-to-end integration test of your consulting business model. And, I offer this last by no coincidence whatsoever. Early on in this post, I linked to a previous post of mine about why I think that every software developer should become a consultant. And I want to close by reemphasizing that point.

I love building and making things. Not only do I have almost 2 decades of software development experience, but I also love, in my spare time, to cook and take on home improvement projects. The act of creating something and the labor involve generate deep satisfaction.

But the flip side of this satisfaction is that we software developers, by positioning ourselves as laborers and not experts, have ceded authority to just about everyone else in terms of decision making about software.

Software developers are, somehow, the least important people in the software industry. But first and foremost among them is that we sell our labor and punt on our own expertise.

Imagine what would happen if we reversed that trend. Imagine what would happen if we commanded respect for our expertise and advice, instead of passively aggressively venting to one another through XKCD and Dlibert comics. If you enjoyed this content, I'd like to invite you to join a community that I've created for engineers looking to develop options and business interests outside of the standard salaried job.

The community is, and will always remain, completely free itself, and you can also get a free electronic copy of my book Developer Hegemony.

I am Erik Dietrich , founder of DaedTech.