Jesus I need a contract

[gingerjedi]

Ouch! Dude you got canned from a £100 per day job!! What rise did you ask for? £120 a day?



(sorry, I hope you take this for the light hearted response that was intended)

I know!!! They obviously thought paying £20 more would cause ruptions within the team, the permy site lead was jealous of the £100pd!!

Better times ahead, things are looking up a bit today judging by the phone calls I've had.

[NeverBeenNorthOfTheM25]

I know!!! They obviously thought paying £20 more would cause ruptions within the team, the permy site lead was jealous of the £100pd!!

Better times ahead, things are looking up a bit today judging by the phone calls I've had.

Man, even in the Outer Hebridies developers get paid more than that. Stick to your guns, good times are but a few weeks away!

[cojak]

Man, even in the Outer Hebridies developers get paid more than that. Stick to your guns, good times are but a few weeks away!

I certainly hope so...

[the_duderama]

I know!!! They obviously thought paying £20 more would cause ruptions within the team, the permy site lead was jealous of the £100pd!!

Better times ahead, things are looking up a bit today judging by the phone calls I've had.

Eh? That's like £21-5K a year, how could he be jealous of that? Although they always just take the day rate, multiply it by 365, and think that's what your getting.

[original PM]

have you every considered doing other work

you know a bar job, flipping burgers, bit of warehouse work, some data entry etc etc etc

I know it is not what you want to do but it will get you out of the house, fill in a few hours and make you feel a bit more worthwhile.

also will stop you eating into your war chest......

if you get a bar job in the evenings you can then continue your job searches during the day - and bar work can have its perks

[NeverBeenNorthOfTheM25]

Eh? That's like £21-5K a year, how could he be jealous of that? Although they always just take the day rate, multiply it by 365, and think that's what your getting.

Im assuming they must be on like £12,000 a year if we are going to follow the natural progression.

I think I'd rather stack shelves for Tescos.

[gingerjedi]

Man, even in the Outer Hebridies developers get paid more than that. Stick to your guns, good times are but a few weeks away!

Not a developer but a techie support guy with many strings to my bow but not much of an aim.

I'm spreading my wings into VMware and Linux at the moment to see if I like that, I'm under no illusion that I need to specialise to get the good money.

[NeverBeenNorthOfTheM25]

I need to specialise to get the good money.

Exact-a-mon, even in the web development area they seem to be after a few core skills.

[SBK1972]

God I hope good times are only a few weeks away.

Im a Sun/Solaris sa / engineer / specialist / dogs body. Since the take over of Sun and increase of the use / migration of linux Im starting to question the life expectancy of Solaris. Im going to install SUSE and give that a wip.

Technology is like surfing a wave, and you need to keep upto date with the latest trends / software / hardware / OS, to be able to surf it. If you dont and fall off the wave then its hard to get back on.

SBK

[nomadd]

Not many Unix SA contracts in Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire at the moment, and the ones that have popped up IVe applied for. I had one phone interview and am still waiting, 1.5 weeks later so I dont have much faith for that one. The other position was filled internally.

Have you noticed how companies now want pretty much every skill in one person ? "unix sa required that has solaris, linix, hp-ux, aix, oracle, sybase, web developer. £210 pd" Everything for nothing. I got a call this morning, a great SA role, up in Derby for 110 pd.:-(

Re-skill. Or die.

My 15 years+ of UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, etc.) was worthless the last time I was looking for a job. Ditto the 10+ years of WebSphere stuff, on the Infrastructure side. All this type of work is being done by cheap Indians these days, either onshore or offshore. Rates aren't going up any time soon - probably never.

I got out of the Infrastructure side a couple of years ago now and went back to programming. May or may not be your cup-o-tea; but at least it has jobs in it!