Would you take this?..

[slickcontractor]

Regardless of what your skillset is £200 per day is better than 0 per day

try telling that to my friend. He turned down a 200 a day contract in liverpool last week. Excuse: not worth the money. Still on the bench and activily looking

[original PM]

I am not an expert but if you run a company and are making no sales and therefore generating no revenue would it not be a good idea to take any form of revenue to keep money coming into the company?

[TheRefactornator]

try telling that to my friend. He turned down a 200 a day contract in liverpool last week. Excuse: not worth the money. Still on the bench and activily looking

.NET development by any chance? If it is I'll take it..'tis my home town.

[Turion]

It's a pants rate and if you take it you could be missing out on something much better. If you're desparate, the only way to play it would be take it, keep looking, and then walk as soon as you get something better. I'd happily walk out of a low rate contract in the knowledge that I would never be going back.

[SuperZ]

try telling that to my friend. He turned down a 200 a day contract in liverpool last week. Excuse: not worth the money. Still on the bench and activily looking

I don`t buy into the 'take what you can get' approach. If we all took low paying work it could prolong the period of low pay for contractors. Those with depleted warchests are more likely to take the low paying contracts which is a good enough reason for contractors to make sure they put money aside during the good times and be prepared to be on the bench a bit longer while looking for that better paying contract. If everyone did that, maybe the rates wouldn`t drop quite so much during these times because we wouldn`t be quite so deperate for work because we didn`t put enough aside during the good times.

If your mate suddenly finds a £400 a day role he only has to work 6 months of a year to have the equiv of £200 a day for the year. I would bet good money on the £400 a day client also being better for the CV than the £200 one unless of course the reason for the £200 contract is solely due to the agency taking a biiggg cut.

[Ivor Bigun]

I don`t buy into the 'take what you can get' approach. If we all took low paying work it could prolong the period of low pay for contractors.

Low pay for contractors is now the norm

You need proof?
look at the job ads

You want to see how it will be in the future?
Look at the outsourcing going on

You want to be richer in the next 5 years?
Save money every month. If you're not working - why?

[oracleslave]

I don`t buy into the 'take what you can get' approach.

I look at it more as slowly, slowly wins the race. I have 2 mates in a pretty nich area, one charges between £500 and £600 a day and the other states firmly that £800 is his minimum. Although both very successful over the course of a year I'll leave you to work out who makes the most money.

[BrilloPad]

I look at it more as slowly, slowly wins the race. I have 2 mates in a pretty nich area, one charges between £500 and £600 a day and the other states firmly that £800 is his minimum. Although both very successful over the course of a year I'll leave you to work out who makes the most money.

Its a trick question. Its you isn't it?

[oracleslave]

Its a trick question. Its you isn't it?

Nah. I'm a permie now

[Rookie]

Regardless of what your skillset is £200 per day is better than 0 per day

From my POV, I couldn't agree more. I'd sonner be on a lower rate than put up with enforced bench time.