Best Contract Site

[BrowneIssue]

Obvious question, but what site out there do you find the best for locating new contracts? I'm just getting started and I could use all the help I can get... If you know a few, feel free to throw some URLs my way...

Ta

You are Wilmslow and I claim my £5

[TheFaQQer]

I don't know why, but forums on the Internet just DO NOT bring out the best in people. Sad but true. Anyway you all have a nice day.

I have a hunch that for some people on here, the opposite is true.

[malvolio]

You know what, never mind.

I've researched a bunch of job sites, and I've been watching them for about three months. I've watched what every job pays, and I've learnt the average rate all these jobs are going for. I wouldn't quit a well paid job for something I wasn't sure about.

But you guys, you've been doing this for ages. I figured, I shouldn't assume I know more than people with experience in the field. I just wanted to know if there was anything else I could learn, from you guys.

I don't know why, but forums on the Internet just DO NOT bring out the best in people. Sad but true. Anyway you all have a nice day.

See, failed at the first hurdle. You want to go contracting, you have to learn to think like a contractor. Any cursory bit of digging around will lead you to Jobserve, and "us guys with loads of experience" can be intolerant of people who want others to do that research for them. Had you asked "is jobserve the best source of new contracts" then you would certainly have got useful answers.

Incidentally you don't know the rates of all the jobs, or even any of them. The published ones are rarely accurate, they will shift around daily until the job is filled and as a newbie you are unlikley to attract top price until you have a bit of contracting history.

So net result, another would-be-ex-permie goes off in a huff becuase he can't cope with the real world and cuts himself off from the kind of advice that can save him thousands of pounds. Ho hum...

[Malacandra]

Wow, only just starting to dip a toe back in the contract market after seven years sucking on the corporate teat, and already I've found a messageboard where they know how to play spank-the-n00b!

And to think I only found my way in here because I wanted to find out if anyone had heard about this tax evasion^h^h^h^h^h^h^h avoidance scheme run by some guys whose company name means Google searches for them gets hidden under tons of hits for southern hemisphere rugby. (A shocker of a sentence, but if you ride that sucker, you'll find it makes sense in the end.)

I can tell it's going to be fun here.

[TheFaQQer]

Wow, only just starting to dip a toe back in the contract market after seven years sucking on the corporate teat, and already I've found a messageboard where they know how to play spank-the-n00b!

No matter how long you've been here, some will still think of you as a newbie.

Unless you can remember the good old days, when it was nowt but green fields 'round 'ere, you're a noob. If you need any advice, just ask milan.

[Fred Bloggs]

How happy I am......

How happy I am not to be an IT contractor. I'm in Engineering and I am glad I don't have to share my little pond of work with you lot. I guess you're all just scared of a bit of extra competition. How sad.

[ChimpMaster]

No matter how long you've been here, some will still think of you as a newbie.

Unless you can remember the good old days, when it was nowt but green fields 'round 'ere, you're a noob. If you need any advice, just ask milan.

Actually all he has to do is post on TPD for a day and he'll have enough posts to look like a old-timer.

[malvolio]

How happy I am not to be an IT contractor. I'm in Engineering and I am glad I don't have to share my little pond of work with you lot. I guess you're all just scared of a bit of extra competition. How sad.

Scared of what? Someone who lacks the nous to get the absolute basic knowledge is unlikely to pose a threat.

The message is harsh but simple. Contracting is not a soft option in any industry, least of all IT. If they can't cope with a quick reality check, they'll never survive.


BTW, 40% of the PCG are Engineers. You're not that different.

[SueEllen]

How happy I am not to be an IT contractor. I'm in Engineering and I am glad I don't have to share my little pond of work with you lot. I guess you're all just scared of a bit of extra competition. How sad.

People who work in IT have different skills sets.

[miffy]

How happy I am not to be an IT contractor. I'm in Engineering and I am glad I don't have to share my little pond of work with you lot. I guess you're all just scared of a bit of extra competition. How sad.

You could try the skillstrain or computeach if you need to retrain.

Theres plenty of work for all of us in each of the different areas of IT (as SueEllen pointed out). People with good quality skills won't go hungry if you're in IT or otherwise. It has nothing to do with competition and it's pretty cool in here I reckon (and I'm a noob). I spent weeks trawling this board before I quit my job, I just needed questions answering (and I found the answer to every single one in here and the PCG guides).

The only thing that is sad is the people that just can't be bothered to read anything other than post the classic one line tell me all I need to know question. We all have jobs to do, (some of us) families to feed and things to learn ourselves and could do without people wanting their backsides wiping.