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[clearedforlanding]

Rate depends on where you are in the country and demand for your skills.

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Contrctors seem to look at KPIs - rate - when they should be looking at KQIs - quality of life.

[clearedforlanding]

Bring home the bacon, be an amazing dad and model husband, run a business, have an active social life, stay fit, help ageing parents...

Who else is finding all of that a bit hard to achieve?

If I had led a modest life, driven a second hand Golf, bought a modest flat, holidayed in Europe etc, instead of chasing the highest rates around the world, I could have done it. I wish I had.

A lot of contractors trade home comforts for money, cars, pretty beads & coloured shells. A lot regret it.

[PurpleGorilla]

If I had led a modest life, driven a second hand Golf, bought a modest flat, holidayed in Europe etc, instead of chasing the highest rates around the world, I could have done it. I wish I had.

A lot of contractors trade home comforts for money, cars, pretty beads & coloured shells. A lot regret it.

How old are they now?

[JohnJizzle]

Yeah this contract has been perfect. Although an hours drive I finish at 4 so home for 5, work from home as and when, worked from home for a month when little one was born.

Project has gone so well they want to bring it in full time and spread it across the company with other staff.

[clearedforlanding]

How old are they now?

Golf Mk2s? Between 25 & 35 years now. If you get a good 'un it will outlast you.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Rate depends on where you are in the country and demand for your skills.

Sure. But that implies a surprising (to me) disparity between contract rates & permie rates when you compare north with south. Although i don't know what the OP's niche is. Perhaps it's a weird quirk of that niche.

[PurpleGorilla]

Golf Mk2s? Between 25 & 35 years now. If you get a good 'un it will outlast you.

Well it feels like one unrelenting grind to me.

I'm clearly doing something wrong.