to contract or not

[Dark Black]

Zorba, spot on...I have to feel pretty sick to take a day off...and even when I do, I'm thinking about the money I'm not earning!

I tend to use the rule:

I can stay at home and feel lousy and earn nothing or...
I can go to work, feek lousy but earn lots...

Bit of a no brainer really

As to contracting or not, it wasnt just about the money for me (ok quite a large part of it was ) - it was also about flexiblity, feeling in control of my own affairs, knowing that if a gig was a bit duff then I'd be out of there in a few months and doing something else, plus exposure to lots of different fields. I always tended to get a bit bored staying in one place for a long time.

In the end (and I should have done it 10 years earlier really) I dumped a very easy role on 45k with better than usual bens, took a couple of months off to chill and put my CV on the net... 4 days later I had a nice local contract were I'm currently hacking Java and getting paid to learn Unix

Lifes good...

[Old Greg]

I tend to use the rule:

I can stay at home and feel lousy and earn nothing or...
I can go to work, feek lousy but earn lots...

Bit of a no brainer really

At my current gig, they don't like you spreading germs, so you can always work from your home office if you're ill.