Not sure contracting beats permie anymore

[NickFitz]

sure, it ,pays good when you're working to get a good car so society can look at you and say "wow, he looks a success"

If you're so ludicrously shallow that you think having a "good" car earns you respect, then you're never going to be happy. It doesn't, and for as long as you think the opinion of others is important you'll be dissatisfied. Nobody else actually thinks about you at all.

however in the workplace we don't necessarily get treated with respect. They can fire you immediately if they needed to. They can throw trashy work at you. They can be nasty to you.

I find lots of permies say exactly the same (but with the correct use of capital letters)

[Waldorf]

I will only leave contracting if I am forced, I much prefer the freedom I have doing this.

[Tingles]

I will only leave contracting if I am forced, I much prefer the freedom I have doing this.

WHS!

[SuperZ]

If you're so ludicrously shallow that you think having a "good" car earns you respect, then you're never going to be happy. It doesn't, and for as long as you think the opinion of others is important you'll be dissatisfied. Nobody else actually thinks about you at all.

As much as I would like to agree with you, I disagree with this, I don`t think it is necessarily to do with being shallow. First impressions and all that. Human psychology (if that`s the way to put it)pretty much dictates that those with a nice car, a big house, probably have more money that those that don`t, and therefore probably are also successful at what they do. I know it is BS though. Notice I use "probably"

You turn up at client site wearing a nice suit, freshly shaved face, nice car, fresh breath.
You turnup at client site wearing old badly fitting suit, haven`t shaven, driving a dirty old Ford, bad breath.

If both of those people interviewed the same, which one would get the job? The bad breath could be down to a health problem, but they`d be less likely to get the job just based on that alone.

Would you turn up at an interview looking scruffy? SAme thing really, You dress to impress. A nice car impresses, even if to many of us when we think of that it makes us sick.

[DS23]

i'm hoping that this is a generalisation of a contractor rather than a description of fitzy and his car?

[Bright Spark]

you can always hire a good suit and nice car , and drink a bottle of
mouthwash before the interview for the gig.

HTH

[Tingles]

you can always hire a good suit and park your heap round the corner , and drink a bottle of
mouthwash before the interview for the gig.

HTH

Fixed....

[NickFitz]

You turnup at client site wearing old badly fitting suit, haven`t shaven, driving a dirty old Ford, bad breath.

i'm hoping that this is a generalisation of a contractor rather than a description of fitzy and his car?

The car reached 170,000 miles last week...

I don't know where my suit is - I haven't needed it in a number of years, although I'm pretty sure it no longer fitted the last time I checked

[PM-Junkie]

As much as I would like to agree with you, I disagree with this, I don`t think it is necessarily to do with being shallow. First impressions and all that. Human psychology (if that`s the way to put it)pretty much dictates that those with a nice car, a big house, probably have more money that those that don`t, and therefore probably are also successful at what they do. I know it is BS though. Notice I use "probably"

You turn up at client site wearing a nice suit, freshly shaved face, nice car, fresh breath.
You turnup at client site wearing old badly fitting suit, haven`t shaven, driving a dirty old Ford, bad breath.

If both of those people interviewed the same, which one would get the job? The bad breath could be down to a health problem, but they`d be less likely to get the job just based on that alone.

Would you turn up at an interview looking scruffy? SAme thing really, You dress to impress. A nice car impresses, even if to many of us when we think of that it makes us sick.

Bloody 'ell - I have a beard. I'm doomed

[Shimano105]

I was thinking of asking about going permie at my current site cos it is local and have been missing my family too much when working away.

Then they went and organised a team-building day.

Contracting has its ups and downs but permiedom is selling your soul to the devil.