Don't bother contracting. In the United States almost all software contracting companies fall under two categories:
1.) Money laundering of some sort or another.
2.) Groups of people who have figured out they can create fraudulent projects and then contract them out to "friends". These are the worst as they are gaslighting festivals where you're forced to buy from certain places or people start purposely breaking software until you pay up.
If you dig deep enough you'll find out exactly how fraudulent most contracting companies are. It's almost all illegal activity.
1.) Money laundering of some sort or another. 2.) Groups of people who have figured out they can create fraudulent projects and then contract them out to "friends". These are the worst as they are gaslighting festivals where you're forced to buy from certain places or people start purposely breaking software until you pay up.
If you dig deep enough you'll find out exactly how fraudulent most contracting companies are. It's almost all illegal activity.