my story

[Fred Bloggs]

This guy needs a permie job. I think even a clerical type job would pay a better take home salary by the time you've factored in 5 weeks holidays, 2 weeks paid sick a year, life insurance, pension contribution, employers NI, PI/PL insurance etc.....

[BrilloPad]

My advice is on that rate stop right now and apply for permie roles.
It is no where near financially worth while being a temp/contractor on thoes rates.

Exactly what I was thinking.

[neilmcl]

My advice is on that rate stop right now and apply for permie roles.
It is no where near financially worth while being a temp/contractor on thoes rates.

WHS, unless the OP flips burgers for a living.

[Dante]

Does anyone know what the OP does for a living?

He could be a professional 'luber-upper' at the Griffin in Clerkenwell.


I'd do that for half his rate.

[zara_backdog]

1st line Support?

[gingerjedi]

1st line Support?

That is the going rate these days, there seems to have been a shift recently where 1st line are expected to do 2nd line and 2nd line are doing more 3rd line server admin stuff.

Too many people willing to take the 12ph for short term gain over their 15k permy role, they don't look at the whole picture before they make the jump.

It pisses me off as the support rates further up the chain inevitably suffer.

[Dante]

I agree with GJ.

I broadly work in support - although I've rebranded as a Migration / Project engineer in Wintel / VMWare infrastructure.

It's difficult to shake off the support tag and it's 1/2/3 line pigeon holes.

It can be done though and soon that £12ph can turn into £300pd...

If the OP isnt a total mong, he could stick with it for 6 months and then try and jump to a better rate when/if things pick up?

[TheFaQQer]

Like someone has already said. Search the forum. But at the same time consider the following...

If you want to change Umbrella company, you would need to check the T's & C's of your contract with the Umbrella. If it states that you are obliged to stay with the Umbrella until the end of the contract, you will need to give notice to the agency and get a new contract in order to go to another Umbrella.

If you are looking to go Limited, then forget it. The amount of money you are earning alongside the length of your contract, it would not be worth the hassle. Accounting fees and other issues such as Insurance, setting up a bank account (in terms of time and effort) would outweigh the cost of going to an Umbrella. I was with Parasol when I first started contracting (3 month assignment). Albeit it was expensive, but it was worth it. Much cheapness does not mean muchness in value.

IIRC, if you only work one contract, then you can't claim any expenses back - something to do with it always being your intention to do one job only.

Might be worth checking out before finding out too late.

IANAA.

[zara_backdog]

I agree with GJ.

I broadly work in support - although I've rebranded as a Migration / Project engineer in Wintel / VMWare infrastructure.

It's difficult to shake off the support tag and it's 1/2/3 line pigeon holes.

It can be done though and soon that £12ph can turn into £300pd...

If the OP isnt a total mong, he could stick with it for 6 months and then try and jump to a better rate when/if things pick up?

Agree.

I started in IT, many years ago as a helpdesk call logger, worked in 2nd, 3rd level support - service management and then became a BA ( just had to get out of a job working 24/7), some of my colleagues bcome developers, DBA's IT managers. A couple still work on a 1st/2nd line service desk.

You have to start somewhere to gain the experiance you need.

[Mart001]

Try these:

http://www.filetravel.co.uk/

I was paying £25 quid an invoice/payment so I changed my pay to monthly.