Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
Three ways to sell the same skills Almost every conversation about an AI engineering career is about where to work — which lab, which start-up, which global capability centre. Far less goes to the question that often matters more over five years: how you are engaged. The same skills can be sold into the same market in three structurally different ways. Permanent employment is a contract with one organisation: salary, benefits, notice periods both ways and, usually, exclusivity. Independent contracting is selling your time at a day or hourly rate, through your own company or an intermediary, for a defined engagement with an end date, no benefits and no guarantee of what follows. Fractional work is selling a slice of your week — two days here, one there — to several clients at once, usually…
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