I have a contract but no work

[Mordac]

Thanks Mordac, I take it you are joking.

I'm really worried about being shown the door if they realise I have absolutely nothing to do.

I wasn't joking - if they haven't given you any deliverables, they must know you have nothing to do.

[Xenophon]

The ability to look busy while loafing is a key contractor skill and the internet makes it a lot easier than it used to be ! But I'd be wary in a useless disorganised client site, if you show willing and do actually start doing any work you will be bombarded. Keep your head down and send in the invoices would be my advice.

I agree with rootsnall.

[Flubster]

I agree with rootsnall.

I concur...with additon that you should obviously be working on Plan 'B' in the quiet times.

[Lucy]

I concur...with additon that you should obviously be working on Plan 'B' in the quiet times.

Plan B ?

[Ardesco]

Plan B is the plan that earns you some cash just in case you have downtime between contracts.

If all goes well Plan B will take off and become your main income source and you won't have to contrct any more.

Every contractor should at least have a Plan B if not a Plan C and a Plan D as well.

HTH

[Lucy]

Plan B is the plan that earns you some cash just in case you have downtime between contracts.

If all goes well Plan B will take off and become your main income source and you won't have to contrct any more.

Every contractor should at least have a Plan B if not a Plan C and a Plan D as well.

HTH

I have no other skills, well other than painting and cooking, and there is always my wit.

[Flubster]

I have no other skills, well other than painting and cooking, and there is always my wit.

Assumming that's a term for a ladies' genitalia, I assume you're talking of becoming a lady of the night.

I think the general accepted Plan 'B' is to develop a software solution that you can sell.

[tim123]

I spent a whole three month contract with nothing to do. Each week I would ask for some 'real' work and each time I was told it would be coming.

Meanwhile, I was supposed to spend all day looking at their code and learning about it. Very ocassionally, I would be given a simple bug to fix, change the location of a text string on a screen or some such triviality.

One week, when I put in my timesheet, the manager complained that I had billed him for the time spent on a 'homer' (composing a letter or something similar).

This was all before internet and email.

Strange thing was, they took on some other cons in the department and had them working on real work within a week or two.

At the end of week 13, I just packed up my things and left.

A most odd experience.

tim

[Ardesco]

I have no other skills, well other than painting and cooking, and there is always my wit.

Plan B - Paint lots of things and sell them
Plan C - Open a restaurant
Plan D - Become a stand up comidiene

See it's easy

[Lucy]

Thanks Ardy

That's the nicest thing you've said to me all day