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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 ...Comment
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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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