Bird in hand is worth 2 in the bush? Best way to stall?

[yasockie]

10% doesn't sound like that much of a difference - if you look at it from a 3 month timeframe (so 60 billable days at best), and the fact that you could be starting contract 1 today, it becomes more profitable to start billing now after 6 working days (can anyone confirm the math?)

[Dearnla]

Go for the bird in the hand. It's an approach I always take, I've never been out of work and only once regretted the policy.

If you start Offer 1 a week before offer 2 is likely to turn up:-
Offer 1 is £500 a day and assuming offer 2 is 10% more,
you'd earn £2,500 for the 5 working days which would mean to make that extra amount in the second contract would take 50 days to generate. That's 2 1/2 months. And it might not happen. And the first offer might evaporate.

Bird in the hand......opportunity cost....mutter...

[AnthonyQuinn]

Go for the bird in the hand. It's an approach I always take, I've never been out of work and only once regretted the policy.

If you start Offer 1 a week before offer 2 is likely to turn up:-
Offer 1 is £500 a day and assuming offer 2 is 10% more,
you'd earn £2,500 for the 5 working days which would mean to make that extra amount in the second contract would take 50 days to generate. That's 2 1/2 months. And it might not happen. And the first offer might evaporate.

Bird in the hand......opportunity cost....mutter...

cheers. i agree. I went for the 2 in the bush. still waiting for contract 2 to come through and less likely to be able to get myself accepted back to contract 1.