New to contracting.

[expat]

well it is hard indeed, you DO need experience. ...

the whole IR35 business is really just...urgh, right now. so as a new comer, i wouldn't recommend contracting just yet, otherwise if you do 1 little thing wrong, you pretty much could be taken to court by HMRC - they are tough on this and something that shouldn't be taken lightly.

Yes you do need experience. That's why contractors are paid more.

You can always solve the IR35 problem by not paying dividends. If you pay NICs on all your income then you will not get taken to court. Yes it's unjust and inconsistent and no you haven't maximised your possible net income, but you can get on with your life.

[MrRobin]

Yes you do need experience. That's why contractors are paid more.

Not necessarily... contractors are demanded when a changable or short term workforce is needed

It's true that more often than not these demands are for highly expert skills and lots of previous experience so that they can get on with a job with a minimum of fuss but sometimes juniors are needed too to do some of the grunt work...

[DoorknobAndFridgeTheory]

Thanks for all the replies, I think Im in trouble. I had really bad experience with bullying manager at last permie job, so im not going to put myself in that position again, Just got to keep banging away and try to bend the universe to my will then.

and the ID is beware of people with gold door knobs and nothing in the fridge.

[NotAllThere]

I had really bad experience with bullying manager at last permie job, so im not going to put myself in that position again

You might like to try to make some money out of that by suing for constructive dismissal. I got a settlement of 6 months salary at the end of my last permie stint.

Just got to keep banging away and try to bend the universe to my will then.

Well that's one thing you've got going for you - the right attitude.

[alreadypacked]

Thanks for all the replies, I think Im in trouble. I had really bad experience with bullying manager at last permie job, so im not going to put myself in that position again, Just got to keep banging away and try to bend the universe to my will then.

and the ID is beware of people with gold door knobs and nothing in the fridge.

It might be worth it to get someone to do your CV for you. I did, best money I spent

[BrilloPad]

James,

I wrote this utility for you. If you run it it will tell you what to do:

if (cv.current_skills + cv.experience != contractor_material) {
call getPermieJob(cv);
}

"!="? Surely "<"....

[Turion]

"!="? Surely "<"....

flip off, it's good Java that

----------------------------------------------------------
I also do C. Worked on the Genome project. Here's the code

The reason why only 30% of human DNA performs any useful function is that the rest of it is comments.

Once we decode a typical human genome, we see that the contents begin as follows:

===
/* HUMAN_DNA.H
*
* Human Genome
* Version 2.1
*
* (C) God
*/

/* Revision history:
*
* 0000-00-01 00:00 1.0 Adam.
* 0000-00-02 10:00 1.1 Eve.
* 0000-00-03 02:11 1.2 Added penis code to male version. A bit messy --
* will require a rewrite later on to make it neater.
* 0017-03-12 03:14 1.3 Added extra sex drive to male.h; took code from
* elephant-dna.c
* 0145-10-03 16:33 1.4 Removed tail.
* 1115-00-31 17:20 1.5 Shortened forearms, expanded brain case.
* 2091-08-20 13:56 1.6 Opposable thumbs added to hand() routine.
* 2501-04-09 14:04 1.7 Minor cosmetic improvements -- skin colour made
* darker to match my own image.
* 2909-07-12 02:21 1.8 Dentition inadequate; added extra 'wisdom' teeth.
* Must remember to make mouth bigger to compensate.
* 4501-12-31 14:18 1.9 Increase average height.
* 5533-02-12 17:09 2.0 Added gay option, triggered by high population
* density, to try and slow the overpopulation problem.
* 6004-11-04 16:11 2.1 Made forefinger narrower to fit hole in centre of
* CD.
*/

/* Standard definitions
*/

#define SEX male
#define HEIGHT 1.84
#define MASS 68
#define RACE caucasian

/* Include inherited traits from parent DNA files.
*
* Files must be pre-processed with MENDEL program to provide proper
* inheritance features.
*/

#include "mother.h"
#include "father.h"

#infndef FATHER
#warn("Father unknown -- guessing\n")
#include "bastard.h"
#endif

/* Set up sex-specific functions and variables
*/
#include <sex.h>

/* Kludged code -- I'll re-design this lot and re-write it as a proper
* library sometime soon.
*/
struct genitals
{
#ifdef MALE
Penis *jt;
#endif
/* G_spot *g; Removed for debugging purposes */
#ifdef FEMALE
Vagina *p;
#endif
}

/* Initialization bootstrap routine -- called before DNA duplication.
* Allocates buffers and sets up protein file pointers
*/
DNA *zygote_initialize(Sperm *, Ovum *);

/* MAIN INITIALIZATION CODE
*
* Returns structures containing pre-processed phenotypes for the organism
* to display at birth.
*
* Will be improved later to make output less ugly.
*/
Characteristic *lookup_phenotype(Identifier *i);
===

...and so on.