Perm to Contracting - When did you give notice?

[AndrewK]

Going contracting for the money is not necessarily a good idea. We don't charge high rates for no reason, the differential between contract rate and salary isn't all that great these days.

I would say it is a good idea. And you can make 2x more (until 2020 April at least). More risk, more reward, same job.

[AndrewK]

But he's conveniently missed the contractors and depression threads, the people on bench stressed out and the posts where people have had to go back perm.

That just because we don't have permie redundancies thread. I don't think it would be more optimistic or less common. It just brave a new world.

[malvolio]

I would say it is a good idea. And you can make 2x more (until 2020 April at least). More risk, more reward, same job.

OR you can break a leg and not earn anything for 9 months, of you can run out of work for another 9 months, or your specialisation may become defunct meaning no more work, or you may net get paid or your 6 month gig lasts three days..

We do no favours to permies if we fail to point out that while you can do very well as a freelance, you can also do very badly: often in consecutive years.

[northernladuk]

OR you can break a leg and not earn anything for 9 months, of you can run out of work for another 9 months, or your specialisation may become defunct meaning no more work, or you may net get paid or your 6 month gig lasts three days..

We do no favours to permies if we fail to point out that while you can do very well as a freelance, you can also do very badly: often in consecutive years.

I had to give up playing rugby because of contracting Cartilage damage in both knees and a damaged cruciate would have still allowed a couple of run outs with the Veteran team but only if I was getting paid for being off on sick. No chance if I'm getting paid per day I turn up.