SAP Contractor 2

A good beginning indeed for 2011. Just completed my new Felda (http://www.feldaholdings.com) assignment last week. This assignment is quite challenging in the sense that I have to create 3 new developments in order to cater new business process scenario in Loan Management under SAP FICO. To achieve this requirement, I have to harness my skills in SAP Workflow. For me, SAP Workflow is quite exciting technology. I’m fortunate enough to acquire this skill in my previous projects. Now I can leverage my knowledge for potential projects in the future. My aim this year is to engage as much contract jobs as possible as a side lucrative income. The thing about SAP is that, if we are bold enough to venture into contract job, we can earn lucrative income in a very short period. Imagine my ex-colleague can earn 2k/day doing contract job and in addition, earn extra 1.2K/day doing contract with my current company. How lucrative is that! But I’m not the bold type enough considering many factors involved. First, I have my own family to support now. Thus, Financial Security is just essential to me. I don’t like the fact that when the contract almost reaching the end, I have to wake up thinking what the next contract job would be. I’m the type who read a lot on business and economics (oh yes, the edge weekly is a must for me!) and therefore I’m aware how vulnerable the world’s economic at the moment. At any moment economy can crash due to any type of reasons be it bubbles, sovereign defaults, etc etc. Overall, the feeling of insecurity is just too overwhelming. That’s why I’m tweaking my goal a little bit. I still want that contract job, but I want to do it on part time basis and remote work. That’s brilliant! Luckily, due to demand on scarce skills like SAP Workflow or PI, there are clients that accept this kind of arrangement. For instance, I’m now engaging with Innovation Associate (http://www.theiagroup.com) for my professional service. And I have my agent TechSAP (http://www.techsap.com) too that deal with payment and contract documentation. At the same time, I can keep my permanent job as usual. Due to part time and remote requirement, it does not affect my current job at all. As I said, I think my New Year resolution would be to engage as much contract jobs as possible in order to enhance my skills in various industries and of course earning more money ;)