Maximum hours per week?

[jamesbrown]

Indeed, defrauding clients is a terrible idea and had nothing to do with running a legitimate business.

[SussexSeagull]

It's certainly doable if, for example, one contract wants you Monday and Tuesday and the other Wednesday and Thursday. If they are in the same sector would a company be ok with you working for a rival at the same time though?

[northernladuk]

It would be useful if the OP told us what they do. I suspect, if they say there are quite a few part time roles, that they are temping, not contracting. Not much difference I guess but useful to know when giving advice. If the clients time aligns, and there are no issues about working for competitiors (which i'd be very surprised in the pharma world) then should be do able. If this is the same client they may even work with each of the hiring managers to make it fit for you.

[northernladuk]

As an opposing view to the above, I billed 600 days last year, similar the year previous, I probably don't need to explain how useful this capital is for early retirement or BTL properties. It's in fact the opposite of "a terrible idea" and very much aligns with "running a business", something the permietractors of this forum can't reconcile.

I strongly advise you give it a go if you can.

The problem here is they are part time. That would indicate they aren't on a deliverables based contract so going to be much harder to fudge time. I also suspect they aren't in the type of role that can be delivered as you please looking at the comment about multiple part time roles.

We get what you are saying, we do lock heads about this but see where you are coming from but your advice has to be based on some facts rather than a carte blanche do it. Explain what to look for, what could work and what couldn't rather than touting the same one size fits all answer, because it doesn't.

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It would be useful if the OP told us what they do. I suspect, if they say there are quite a few part time roles, that they are temping, not contracting. Not much difference I guess but useful to know when giving advice. If the clients time aligns, and there are no issues about working for competitiors (which i'd be very surprised in the pharma world) then should be do able. If this is the same client they may even work with each of the hiring managers to make it fit for you.

I believe they have - it's locum pharmacy dispensing

[northernladuk]

I believe they have - it's locum pharmacy dispensing

Oh, must have missed that. So that blows GreenBastards advice right out of the water as expected.

[TheGreenBastard]

Indeed, defrauding clients is a terrible idea and had nothing to do with running a legitimate business.

"Defrauding"

Never not left a gig on my own terms, never had a unhappy client. Many in my circle do the same, not a single horror story except periods of hard graft.

If you've ever done an outside gig you've been defrauding the tax man due to your disguised employment.

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"Defrauding"

Never not left a gig on my own terms, never had a unhappy client. Many in my circle do the same, not a single horror story except periods of hard graft.

If you've ever done an outside gig you've been defrauding the tax man due to your disguised employment.

If you are selling anything on working days the end client is going to be expecting you to do x hours work for them in that working day.

[northernladuk]

"Defrauding"

Never not left a gig on my own terms, never had a unhappy client. Many in my circle do the same, not a single horror story except periods of hard graft.

If you've ever done an outside gig you've been defrauding the tax man due to your disguised employment.

Lets not get in to this again.

You are quite correct, if the client doesn't stipulate times and is on a delivery basis then you are absolutely spot on, you can have as many clients as you want.

If the client has times/days on the contract and has an expectation you'll be 100% available for that time then working on another clients time is against the terms of the contract and expectation of client so will lead to trouble. The only this works if you lying to your clients. Can work, not a good idea. Down to your own principles whether to do it or not as the contractual situation is quite clear.

There is some leeway if you can discuss and arrange with the client yes, but that is not going to happen for a vast number of clients.

So again, yes it's possible, not often and definitely not in every case so why not balance your argument and mention the key factors which will influence the decision as to whether double accounting your client would work. Just a blanket, I do it so everyone should really ruins your argument, which in some cases might actually be correct. You can be right in what you say but your delivery is just awful. Temper it and you'd have a good point we couldn't argue about. Surely that is better no?

EDIT : Oh, and you are arguing on a thread where you've just been proven wholly and totally wrong. A locum pharmasist cannot double bill. SO maybe pick a better thread to argue on?

[LittleMermaid]

Not a locum pharmacist; pharmaceutical contracting (desk-based, occasional calls, mostly remote work). It sounds as if the days aren't stipulated in the contract, and I deliver the work and am available when they need me - presumably I can take on as much work as I feel I am able to. Thank you all for the lively discussion!