What can you do

[MrMark]

Maybe everyone on the Bench should setup a forum for meeting up and spending qualityt benched time together! At least everyone has a common interest - IT. We could also post on the Accountancy board to really get the party rocking!!!

I've been benched since March, but as it's happened before I made sure I got some things sorted out (unfortunately I was unable to build up a big war chest as it's 6 years since I had 12 months work in one year). I've rented some space on a shared server and am building up some Plan B websites. Plus I've set up this forum for help and advice for people searching for work (not going to earn from this as too few members, but a useful store for info, links etc):
how to fight back
It's got some useful post and links in there on voluntary work, Power Verbs, writing cvs etc. Could do with some more input so all welcome to add your expertise.
My main Plan B hope at the moment is another website - it involves a lot of Perl and Rss stuff though, so I'm going through a steep learning curve at the moment. Even if the end product isn't the money spinner I hope it will be, I'll have improved my technical skills no end.
At the end of the day we just have to hope I suppose!

[BrowneIssue]

Maybe everyone on the Bench should setup a forum for meeting up and spending qualityt benched time together!

Err, they did. It's called ContractorUK