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I am sorry, my bad, I misunderstood that you are looking for your next gig. Here is my take,
1. Contract work varies very widely from say few weeks to years. Agent model won't scale here because you as a contract employee can get fired for numerous reasons, and which is pretty common in the industry. If an agent has to make commission, long term reliability is a must.
2. Continuous cut for the duration of the project with the contract employees keeps cash flowing for these consulting companies. Why risk the cash flow when you can earn bi-weekly :)
I guess you can get fired, but isn't that a differentiator for the agents? Like: Agent Amy has awesome people who don't get fired, Agent Bob has so-so people who get fired sometimes, and thus if you want Amy to be your agent you have to convince her of your quality. Juniors get Bob, and that's OK, after a while maybe they get Amy if they're really good.
> 2. Continuous cut for the duration of the project
This is also how the film/TV agent model works. My agent would get 10% of any business initiated when I am contracted to them.
haha, I can see how it came across, no ties with turing.com, I interviewed with them recently. I have been a daily user of hacker news for the last decade, never contributed anything on hacker news. I misunderstood that the OP was looking for a gig, and tried to help. In my head, I was thinking what better way to contribute to the discussion than helping someone find a job :D
