Working away from home

[northernladuk]

Sadly me and my family are used to it.
But I do take a lot of holidays and I only stay away 3 nights.
I'm well into my second year at clientoco and have just signed up for another 7 months.

I do happen to love what I do and am enjoying this project immensely - which helps a great deal

Sorry to hijack the thread but what did you do about the 24 months rule in the end?

[scot]

I've worked abroad a fair amount of time, 5 years in Brussels for one and I am about to go abroad again. Sure its not nice being away from family
etc but its all about working for a better quality of life for when you are home and when you will come back for good.

My experience is that abroad you will be treated with far greater respect and wont be forced into slave labour and its up to you to sell yourself
sufficiently to make it financially worthwhile.

My skillset means that local jobs are hard to get and I've moved around a fair but to compensate, now we are back home living in the country so
weekends and holidays have a very good quality and friends and family can visit and enjoy the place I am in as well.

If you choose to stay in a dingy hotel watching foreign telly then fine, i for one loved Belgium and Luxembourg and made the most of being there
and will do in my next place.

If you have to go , make it worthwhile is what I say.

[scooterscot]

Managed it for about 3-4 years before saying no. No more.

Contracting just over 10 years now. The family moves when I do.

[psychocandy]

Must admit never done the away from home thing. I know that if I was ever forced to do it that I would absolutely hate it.

Saying that though, I had a two year stint contracting about 10-12 years ago, and have just started again now. Luckily, my current gig is 8 miles from home.

I live in South Wales so not the most prosperous part of the country - LOL. But Bristol is close by and theres always stuff there.

To be honest, I've been made redundant 4 times in the last 10 years, and always found another permie job (or in this case, contract) within a few weeks each time.

If I was ever struggling I did think that commuting to London/Thames valley by train every day 'might' be doable. Under 2 hours by train - not ideal but not TOO expensive with season ticket. I know there are people who do this for permie jobs so Im sure I could do it for a short contract....

[Billy Pilgrim]

Fed up and have taken a 'local' permie job - 60 miles from my home with the proviso that I can work from home - and they'll expense me for coming into the office when I need to!

Still some client site travel required but I can't argue with that

Big drop in income but I'm hoping its worth the sacrifice of being able to burn the suitcase (at least for a few years)

Not much scope for contracting around the north west with my skill set so was more than surprised to spot this role

[Fred Bloggs]

Fed up and have taken a 'local' permie job - 60 miles from my home with the proviso that I can work from home - and they'll expense me for coming into the office when I need to!

Still some client site travel required but I can't argue with that

Big drop in income but I'm hoping its worth the sacrifice of being able to burn the suitcase (at least for a few years)

Not much scope for contracting around the north west with my skill set so was more than surprised to spot this role

Good luck with it. I am from the NW too. The last 18 months has been dire in process engineering so I have been in Surrey. The last few weeks have seen a big increase in work available in the NW so I have managed to get an 18 to 24 month role just South of Manchester.