Hi, I have had many opportunities like this. I work in a hospital, with researchers. most of them cannot hire a statistician full time all year long. So they just hire people on short contract. Many people do it on night/week-ends. Most researchers do not like to work this way, but skilled SAS programmer/statisticians are rare in Montreal. So they do not have choice to work this way. As others said, opportunies are quite rare in the industrial world, apart form that sector. As it is academic, it does not pay that much (most studies are not very well organized in term of data, as they do not have permanent skilled people , so most scientists will underestimate time). But with some experience, you can spot the best contracts.

So I would check with academic, research center, hospital, ... Medecine/epidemiology is a big field, one can get a nice sideline from it. But, be careful, some contracts can be messy, and those people do not have unlimited funds. Not easy sometime, but better say no.

HTH,

JP

Please: do not contact me for such opportunities (they always need someone local)

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