What to do, can't decide!

[zarf]

Hi all,

I've been on my first contract, a 5-week project to design a solution for a particular problem, which ends at the end of March. I have been working on landing another contract at a company I know well from permie days, which should be 4 months (up to a year or more) at a much better rate.

Current clientco is now raising the prospect of a 1 month extension. If I take it, I have an income for another month, but I would lose any chance of the long contract.

So, is a contract in the hand better than a much juicier, longer contract in the offing?

[Sockpuppet]

Hi all,

I've been on my first contract, a 5-week project to design a solution for a particular problem, which ends at the end of March. I have been working on landing another contract at a company I know well from permie days, which should be 4 months (up to a year or more) at a much better rate.

Current clientco is now raising the prospect of a 1 month extension. If I take it, I have an income for another month, but I would lose any chance of the long contract.

So, is a contract in the hand better than a much juicier, longer contract in the offing?

Do both?

[Turion]

Hi all,

I've been on my first contract, a 5-week project to design a solution for a particular problem, which ends at the end of March. I have been working on landing another contract at a company I know well from permie days, which should be 4 months (up to a year or more) at a much better rate.

Current clientco is now raising the prospect of a 1 month extension. If I take it, I have an income for another month, but I would lose any chance of the long contract.

So, is a contract in the hand better than a much juicier, longer contract in the offing?

Sounds like you haven't been offered anything concrete yet so why worry? If you get the 1 month ext before the 4 monther (which may not happen) take it. If afterwards you get the 4 monther then decide strategy - stay put, walk, go sick, offer substitute etc.

Go through the options and weigh up what is best for you and go for it.

[Fred Bloggs]

If its just for an extra 4 weeks at the current place, you can blag alternate weeks there and at the new place if offered by telling a few porkies. No problem.

[zarf]

If its just for an extra 4 weeks at the current place, you can blag alternate weeks there and at the new place if offered by telling a few porkies. No problem.

Could you be a bit more specific? I'm still not used to the idea of breaking a business agreement and feeling OK about it!

The sub idea may be hard, if only because the skill set is quite specific and I know they took a while to find me (yes, I'm after a rate increase also).

To sockpuppet: how could I do both? Unless I split time between them, which may be a challenge with the project timescales. Still, it's a nice position to be in I guess!

[Fred Bloggs]

Be inventive about granny or the parrot being sick etc... and spend alternate weeks at both gigs, we're only discuissing a few weeks after all said and done.

[bledubd]

1 bird in hand is worth 2 in the bush. work with what you have agreed at the decision making time. If the guys for the longer contract give you a written undertaking then u can move there.

[Pickle2]

1 bird in hand is worth 2 in the bush.

yet a hand in the bush trumps all.
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