950 a Day, what Skills?

[ratewhore]

...Web security specialist...

Nope!!

[Small Puppy]

Try Progamme Management.. usually in something awkward or specialist like quad/triple play etc.

1 job lasting 12 - 18 months every 24 months!

[css_jay99]

Pondlife, rightly said.

Portseven, as Pondlife said, you need to get into .Net,

get yourself trained up in microsoft with the full MSDN certification and
will be

sorteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed


all the best

Milan.

Comming from oracle background, is it worth going to learn c# or go down oracle apps route ?

css_jay99

[thunderlizard]

Nowadays you can do a Jobserve search on hourly rate alone. If you just tick "£100+"/hour, the top few are mostly SAP and Murex.

P.S. SAP's more of a gravy train because the projects last longer, and it's easier.
Typical SAP customer: "We'd like a field adding to this form. Is 6 months long enough?"
Typical Murex customer: "We'd like to start trading in pork belly CFDs and forex swaps, and start spread betting on the women's beach volleyball. Please have it set up by lunchtime"

P.P.S. that Jobserve search isn't very currency-specific. But then again you don't specify 950 of what.

[XLMonkey]

If I was looking for 950 a day, what skills would I need to be selling?

.....

networking skills, that's what (and I don't mean techy networking, I mean that 'orrible people networking thing).

The best rates are always available to the person who has a personal relationship with the senior client with the money. If you have that, then the skills bit of the equation is a lot less relevant.

If you're going through an agent, then its a lot more tricky, but generally senior programme managers/directors in the public sector are pulling down between 900-1200/day round where I am.

sadly, that ain't me.

[ratewhore]

...but generally senior programme managers/directors in the public sector are pulling down between 900-1200/day round where I am.

They pay high rates to attract the best. That'll be why the public sector programmes always come in on time and to budget.

Money well spent I say...!

[XLMonkey]

They pay high rates to attract the best. That'll be why the public sector programmes always come in on time and to budget.

Money well spent I say...!

(sigh) as if the purpose of a public sector programme was ever to come in on time and to budget.

Obviously, the purpose of a public sector programme is, respectively, to:
- offer a minister the chance to announce "a transformation in public services"
- offer senior civil servants the opportunity to line up a lucrative directorship or two for when they retire
- offer middle-ranking civil servants the opportunity to become senior civil servants
- stabilise the economy by giving the government a reason to inject large quantities of money into the industry of its choice.

Money well spent, I say!