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"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
I asked a question - I'm sure you think you are funny but I was trying to make a point for the benefit of someone else before you hijacked this thread.Comment
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Originally posted by uk contractor View PostClearly you do not have a family, dependents, friends, relatives etc etc who you like to socialise with! Money is not everything by a long way.Comment
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I self benched at the end of April as the programme I was working on stalled (short of cash, needed to replan) and I didn't fancy sitting around scratching my backside trying to pretend I was busy. Idea was to take most of the Summer off and look for a new role come August.
Seems I'm just as efficient at home as at the office and I've finished most of the jobs I was looking to do around the house. As such, updated my LinkedIn page and CV today with idea of kicking off a new contract some time in June.
be interesting to see how badly Brexit has effected the market for the kind of work I do ...I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter manComment
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Originally posted by Whorty View PostI self benched at the end of April as the programme I was working on stalled (short of cash, needed to replan) and I didn't fancy sitting around scratching my backside trying to pretend I was busy. Idea was to take most of the Summer off and look for a new role come August.
Seems I'm just as efficient at home as at the office and I've finished most of the jobs I was looking to do around the house. As such, updated my LinkedIn page and CV today with idea of kicking off a new contract some time in June.
be interesting to see how badly Brexit has effected the market for the kind of work I do ...but the market is so strange and I wonder when might be the best time of the year to take, say, 3 months off. I might return and find other people eating my dinner.
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Originally posted by Elliegirl View PostI need to have a decent wodge of time off myself. Been working with hardly a break for the last three years or so and took this week off only to find myself ill, so no overseas sun for me.but the market is so strange and I wonder when might be the best time of the year to take, say, 3 months off. I might return and find other people eating my dinner.
So take mid Nov to mid Feb or mid June to mid SeptComment
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Originally posted by SandyD View PostOn the contrary ... I do have family, dependents, relatives and most of my friends live locally to me... family and dependents is the reason am willing to travel to pay for my commitments, I can't afford to be out of work for months on end.Comment
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Originally posted by SandyD View Posthmmmm this kind of attitude maybe the reason you are benched for so long... you got to follow the job, I know it can be hard moving sometime, but we all had to do it at some point or another.
it doesn't make financial sense because of living away expenses.Comment
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And another thing!!
Rates. Forgive me if this has already been discussed earlier in the thread. I've nothing to do today but moan.
Was contacted about a role with a big pharma about 2 months ago. Around the 400 mark. Contacted about the same (or very similar) role this week and it's £100 a day less. But I suppose they can do exactly what they like with so many people on the market.Comment
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