State of the Market

[cojak]

I've tidied this up. If trolls continue to disrupt these threads, banhammers will appear.

[TheDude]

It is very quiet at the moment which is unfortunate because I have realised that I can no longer stomach the commute to London even for two days a week.

[rocktronAMP]

It is very quiet at the moment which is unfortunate because I have realised that I can no longer stomach the commute to London even for two days a week.

I am unemployed now. So I am looking for another perm or 6 month contract. I have no choice, but keep the income stream coming in asap. I suspect Dudey you are the same. What time are you arriving in the office? What time are you leaving the office? I'd be commuting about 45 -50 miles to Euston station and then a zone 1 station if I did the trains. I'd be madness to drive.

[TheDude]

I am unemployed now. So I am looking for another perm or 6 month contract. I have no choice, but keep the income stream coming in asap. I suspect Dudey you are the same. What time are you arriving in the office? What time are you leaving the office? I'd be commuting about 45 -50 miles to Euston station and then a zone 1 station if I did the trains. I'd be madness to drive.

I still have another 5 months of the contract remaining and the rate is decent but I have a 75min door to door commute each way on Tuesdays and Wednesdays which I despise. The thing is everyone I work with in an other countries so there is little point my being there.

[rocktronAMP]

I still have another 5 months of the contract remaining and the rate is decent but I have a 75min door to door commute each way on Tuesdays and Wednesdays which I despise. The thing is everyone I work with in an other countries so there is little point my being there.

Ouch! I'd be annoyed seriously. If the majority of people that I was working with were working were in the zone GMT +5.30 and I still had to be in office....

[TheDude]

Ouch! I'd be annoyed seriously. If the majority of people that I was working with were working were in the zone GMT +5.30 and I still had to be in office....

Not as annoyed as the guys in India tare when the scrum master in the US schedules standups for 3pm UK time

[KinooOrKinog]

This is honestly the most difficult I've found it in the 15 years or so I've been contracting. I was quite lucky that my last contract was a long one so I avoided all the covid nonsense. I've now been very actively looking for three months with no success. I've had interviews, but I've been unsuccessful. Well, I assume I've been unsuccessful since all but one recruiter has ghosted me after interview. I might have to end up doing one of those begging posts on LinkedIn...It's either that or an OnlyFans, although I don't imagine I'd have many takers there either

[SussexSeagull]

Absolutely dire. A consultancy I have previously worked through - so I give them a bit more slack than an agent approaching me out the blue - excitedly got in touch with me week before last saying they had a contract for me which will be sorted out in the next couple of days. Anyway, contact at client is off for a couple of days so won't be until next week. Fair enough, these things happen. Role on next week and I ask what is happening and apparently he is ill and he is yet to reappear some week and a half later.

The consultant seems to be suffering some form of delusion which I would find sad were it not for my need to get back into work as soon as possible. In the meantime I have been put forward for a couple of permanent jobs as I need to get some money in.

It's tough out there.

[SussexSeagull]

This is honestly the most difficult I've found it in the 15 years or so I've been contracting. I was quite lucky that my last contract was a long one so I avoided all the covid nonsense. I've now been very actively looking for three months with no success. I've had interviews, but I've been unsuccessful. Well, I assume I've been unsuccessful since all but one recruiter has ghosted me after interview. I might have to end up doing one of those begging posts on LinkedIn...It's either that or an OnlyFans, although I don't imagine I'd have many takers there either

It's certainly as bad as I ever remember this and I include the 2008 Financial Crash, Brexit and Covid in that.

[SussexSeagull]

I still have another 5 months of the contract remaining and the rate is decent but I have a 75min door to door commute each way on Tuesdays and Wednesdays which I despise. The thing is everyone I work with in an other countries so there is little point my being there.

Unless you have some seriously in demand skills I would recommend smiling sweetly and keep billing.