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Originally posted by NowPermOutsideUK View PostThe problem is most people are just average - I mean I know all contractors on here need a good dose of humility and claim they are worth 1k a day because they are amazing but in reality thats not true.
Finding a USP which is really a USP and cannot be mimicked by someone else is frankly impossible....
Most of the time people have been in roles because they were available companies had cash and remote working never worked - This has in my opinion now changed to the detriment of contractors ..Comment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostFecking hate doing those roles."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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If your skill is in an area where your counterpart working for the vendor charges €2K a day, there is always an arbitrage contracting opportunity somewhere, with space for your rate, an agent, and even an intermediary.
If it's in a generic area with rate suppression, and little opportunity for differentiation, I don't need to state the obvious.
On the state of the market thread a few weeks ago, someone shared a link to current rates bemoaning the depth of roles (correct) and the average rate outside London (also correct - the regional rates were all falling ).
However, across all categories, all the 10th percentile roles showed rate inflation. Don't take my word for it -- check it out. Boom time. Quality (or the perception of quality) sells.‘His body, his mind and his soul are his capital, and his task in life is to invest it favourably to make a profit of himself.’ (Erich Fromm, ‘The Sane Society’, Routledge, 1991, p.138)Comment
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Originally posted by lecyclist View PostIf your skill is in an area where your counterpart working for the vendor charges €2K a day, there is always an arbitrage contracting opportunity somewhere, with space for your rate, an agent, and even an intermediary.
If it's in a generic area with rate suppression, and little opportunity for differentiation, I don't need to state the obvious.
On the state of the market thread a few weeks ago, someone shared a link to current rates bemoaning the depth of roles (correct) and the average rate outside London (also correct - the regional rates were all falling ).
However, across all categories, all the 10th percentile roles showed rate inflation. Don't take my word for it -- check it out. Boom time. Quality (or the perception of quality) sells.
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Originally posted by GhostofTarbera View PostProblem is, most in here are Johnny average generic skills, but still got £750 a day for last 20 years
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Originally posted by SussexSeagull View PostAbsolute nonsense. If someone was average they wouldn't be getting paid more than 95% of the population.Comment
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Originally posted by SussexSeagull View PostAbsolute nonsense. If someone was average they wouldn't be getting paid more than 95% of the population.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by eek View PostJust because your current skillset pays more than the amount 95% of the population earn - it's perfectly possible to be average (or worse) in that skillset.
Availability wins over productivity in too many cases.See You Next TuesdayComment
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Originally posted by eek View PostJust because your current skillset pays more than the amount 95% of the population earn - it's perfectly possible to be average (or worse) in that skillset.Comment
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