State of the Market

[herman_g]

I thought this was going to turn into an I got laid story!

Unfortunately Helen was a fairly large Texan lady - not quite my type and she had a rather large gun-carrying Texan husband. She was the easiest interviewer I ever met. And, her husband Dave was a big cigar smoker who never tried cuban cigars before. When my parents would come visit California from Canada, they were allowed to bring some cuban cigars for "personal use" despite being strict contraband. Dave would reimburse me for the box of Monte Cristos and just the importation was good for a sameday 6 month's extension. Contracting doesn't get much easier than that.

[willendure]

"While President Trump announced late last week that it will make it harder to bring talent to the US, we want to make it easier to bring talent to the UK," Rachel Reeves said on Tuesday.

The BBC understands the government plans to double the number of high skilled foreign worker visas to around 18,000 a year.

*facepalm* Get in the sea! you daft cow...

[Bluenose]

To add to the misery of searching for contracts in 2025. Gee, thanks Rachel. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yjlw4n5d5o

"While President Trump announced late last week that it will make it harder to bring talent to the US, we want to make it easier to bring talent to the UK," Rachel Reeves said on Tuesday.

The BBC understands the government plans to double the number of high skilled foreign worker visas to around 18,000 a year.

[willendure]

Drove 2 hours from my place in Silicon Valley to Sacramento and met a nice PM at California State Lottery. She looked at my CV and asked me if I was able to start in the first or second week of September. I told her first week and she asked if she could buy me lunch at a nice Mexican place next to the river. We drank so many margaritas she called a taxi, took me to where the contractors apartments were...

I thought this was going to turn into an I got laid story!

[quackhandle]

Was there someone in this thread looking for a VB6 Dev role?

Just spotted one on jobserve, outside IR35.

qh

[gruntling]

I'm seeing a bit more activity from emails from agents. Nothing particularly useful, and maybe just people back off their summer hold CV fishing and doing agency make-work.

But perhaps some hints of green shoots?

[ShandyDrinker]

To add to the misery of searching for contracts in 2025. Gee, thanks Rachel. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yjlw4n5d5o

[Dorkeaux]

Just what do you think is a decent Plan B or Plan C to do? Especially, if Plan A is equivalent to Earn Income in your chosen Career Path.
BTW I am a software engineer since I was a kid. Plan A earns the big bread IMHO.

Actually, I was talking about Oliverson's plan A, B and C for retirement, not career planning.

[rocktronAMP]

Drove 2 hours from my place in Silicon Valley to Sacramento and met a nice PM at California State Lottery. She looked at my CV and asked me if I was able to start in the first or second week of September. I told her first week and she asked if she could buy me lunch at a nice Mexican place next to the river. We drank so many margaritas she called a taxi, took me to where the contractors apartments were, pulled some keys from her purse and said "that will be your apartment". You can stay until you're sober enough to drive home or all week, doesn't matter to me (the lottery was the only state government department that made money and they made a lot of it).

Wow! Ha! That's some distance from Mountview and Palo Alto driving up the terrain to Sacremento. I remember the university town on the way up there Davis or David. You keep driving then you'd end up at the ski resort. Crazy times and money!

[rocktronAMP]

I think this is normal. I can't bloody wait until retirement either.
You should always have a plan A, B, C etc, but maybe show some flex in bouncing between them.

Just what do you think is a decent Plan B or Plan C to do? Especially, if Plan A is equivalent to Earn Income in your chosen Career Path.
BTW I am a software engineer since I was a kid. Plan A earns the big bread IMHO.