Starting as a Contractor: any horror stories?

[TinTrump]

Travelled round Hungary in '96 with the then girlfriend. Being a bit of a history bore, I insisted on visiting an 18thC (?) fort built on one of Budapest's hills. So we hiked for an hour and when we got there I marvelled at the old design and the shell strikes from when the Ruskies passed through in WW2.
Best of all, a strip bar had been opened in it and the place was full of pics of girls in stocking and suspenders. Was my face
Anyone know if the strip bar is still there?

[joey122]

Travelled round Hungary in '96 with the then girlfriend. Being a bit of a history bore, I insisted on visiting an 18thC (?) fort built on one of Budapest's hills. So we hiked for an hour and when we got there I marvelled at the old design and the shell strikes from when the Ruskies passed through in WW2.
Best of all, a strip bar had been opened in it and the place was full of pics of girls in stocking and suspenders. Was my face
Anyone know if the strip bar is still there?

Yeah - Hungary does have its own way of life

[Sundial]

Nope. The rest of us got it right. Its just YOU who messed it up.

HTH

Mebbe true but do you have to be so blunt about it?? *indignantly outraged*

I dunno, and thanks for the responses (to reiterate: I'm not an agent, etc - you lot really ARE suspicious and maybe rightly so but I've never seen an agent ousted 'live' as such and I'm not sure why anyone would think I was one? - it's not like I'm asking anyone where they're based, who their references are and how much lower a rate they'd want).

[Stan.goodvibes]

To be honest, the most successful contractors I've met - and I'd include myself in that group having survived 20 years outside of permie-dom - are those with a contracting mindset. You've either got that, or you haven't. I guess what that means is you like working outside the corporate system and just concentrate on getting the job done; and once the job is done, you are happy to move on. Very few people think like that, hence why their are so many permies.

Ahhhh spoken like a true contractor. At 45 and after doing this now for over 15 years, I wouldn't dream of going permy. I'd change career first, go build houses or landscaping.

Old contractors don't go permy, they become consultants

[Green Mango]

Ahhhh spoken like a true contractor. At 45 and after doing this now for over 15 years, I wouldn't dream of going permy. I'd change career first, go build houses or landscaping.

Old contractors don't go permy, they become consultants

Actually they do lots of things when desperate such as : Job benefit centre clerk, kitchen salesman, taxi driver,