Clinical Coders

[KentPhilip]

Yes. That's why I want three times as much money as a contract PM as my permie colleagues will be getting.

To make up for the time on the bench, the training, the LtdCo running costs, the time spent doing poxy paperwork for the government and ... to compensate me for the risk associated with uncertainty.

If I am running a project and see it needs to be terminated early or there is a quick way of achieving the same end, I will tell management and explain why. If so instructed, I will then wrap it up and leave, saving the client a small fortune and making them feel happy with me. I'm probably stupid, but it's what I do.

A permie would then be given something else to do; I'm back on the bench. I expect a higher rate for that kind of integrity and its consequences.

But part of the service I offer is that if the budget disappears, or the programme is terminated, or if the weather changes (there's a story behind that), I will clear off without complaint.

Well I applaud your professional approach.
Of course at the current market you'll be lucky to get 1.5 times a permie rate (OK a generalization). So do your exemplary principles still apply in the light of that?

[DodgyAgent]

You've been looking at my invoices again Mr DA

But yes your point makes sense.

I wish I did more than just look at them