Any advice/strategy for ensuring contracts get extended?

[cojak]

Also Cojak,

Do you ask that question in interviews? kind of feels a bit blunt and presumptuous?

No.

I'm not an idiot.

[SussexSeagull]

Turn up and do the job well. I tend to find contractors who try to get one over other contractors by unilaterally expanding their role or working every hour god sends tend to burn out.

On one contract I was on one contractor seemed to be in the office until nine or ten each night for no obvious reason as the rest of us barely had enough work to fill the day. Ended up getting a three month extension while the rest of us just went and got other contracts.

Hardly seemed worth it.

[PerfectStorm]

Pull some absolute rabbits out of your hat just before expiry? Think of it as being like a normal job but where you're more easily sacked... make yourself unsackable!

[patrickbaitsman]

No.

I'm not an idiot.

So how does one "make sure" you get a contract with enough budget for extension, apologies for dumbass questions - just new to all this.

[northernladuk]

So how does one "make sure" you get a contract with enough budget for extension, apologies for dumbass questions - just new to all this.

Are you actually thinking before you post?

[TykeMerc]

So how does one "make sure" you get a contract with enough budget for extension, apologies for dumbass questions - just new to all this.

You don't.

It's entirely possible and likely that a contract that looks at the outset to be long term to have the project canned a few weeks later due to policy changes, just as possible that a 2 month role turns into 2 years.

Part of the contractor working model is the lack of certainty, if you can't accept that then you really shouldn't bother and stick to perm.

[patrickbaitsman]

You don't.

It's entirely possible and likely that a contract that looks at the outset to be long term to have the project canned a few weeks later due to policy changes, just as possible that a 2 month role turns into 2 years.

Part of the contractor working model is the lack of certainty, if you can't accept that then you really shouldn't bother and stick to perm.

yeah I thought that was the case.

Cojack posts confused me when he said "1) make sure you land a contract whose budget is big enough to cover your required extension."

I'm fine with the lack of uncertainty, contracting has given me a strong warchest.

[TykeMerc]

yeah I thought that was the case.

Cojack posts confused me when he said "1) make sure you land a contract whose budget is big enough to cover your required extension."

I'm fine with the lack of uncertainty, contracting has given me a strong warchest.

How does that comment sit with

So how does one "make sure" you get a contract with enough budget for extension, apologies for dumbass questions - just new to all this.

That one?

Sock drawer residency confirmed. Not convincing, not a clever persona and no comedy value.

[Avalonia]

Why are you feeding "patrick baits man" ?

[northernladuk]

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