Working outside the city (London)...?

[RockyBalboa]

Get a gig at Barclays in Radbroke Hall. Great drive giving it the berries through the countryside to get there, count how many Lambo's, ferraries etc pass you on the way in through Alderly. Do a mornings work then go sit on the croquet lawn with your lunch in the sun watching the ladies go by. Great stuff. Gig and rates are rubbish and likely to get kicked out on your arse about November but can't have it all LOL.

Ah so it's the likes of you that gives the rest of us a bad name there!

I don't work there every day but I sure seem to put in more (effective) time than many other contractors I have come across. However, I am fortunate enough to be on higher rate than quite a few.

With regards to London - don't see the point of it myself unless quite a substantial increase in rate makes the commute/staying there worth it... or if I get really desperate for work which has not happened in all these years (so far!)... but as others have alluded to, it depends on current location, motivations, needs/wants etc.

[northernladuk]

Ah so it's the likes of you that gives the rest of us a bad name there!

Moi? How do you work that out? If you mean the cars I only mean pass the exotics while driving my 6 year old diesel Ford Focus belching out black smoke as I try and get it to 60.

[RockyBalboa]

Moi? How do you work that out? If you mean the cars I only mean pass the exotics while driving my 6 year old diesel Ford Focus belching out black smoke as I try and get it to 60.

Get a gig at Barclays in Radbroke Hall... Do a mornings work then go sit on the croquet lawn with your lunch in the sun watching the ladies go by. Great stuff...

[GB9]

Rates falling

Been looking seriously for a role this week.....rates significantly down since the back end of last year....plenty of jobs. Doesn't seem like there is a rush to fill them though.

Looking like having to accept 2004 rates again if I want to eat.

[Project Monkey]

Not a wind up - genuine post. I don't see many skyscrapers and cool offices in Wales.

I'm not having a dig; on the contrast if anything - where are the decent places to work outside the M25? ok...Manchester city center will have a fair few, as will Birmingham - but what about all the towns inbetween. Surely contractors gravitate towards London down here in the south? If not, where do they go? Where do they work? What is it like? Why did they choose to work outside of London?

That's the point of my original post because I do not know.

Why so desperate to work in s skyscraper in a city? There's no trees, grass, cows, mud, no beautiful frosty morning drives, too many people, too smelly, too dirty, too stressy, too impersonal, too unfriendly.... the list goes on?

You stay where you are and enjoy your higher quality of life.

[socialworker]

Moi? How do you work that out? If you mean the cars I only mean pass the exotics while driving my 6 year old diesel Ford Focus belching out black smoke as I try and get it to 60.

With the greatest of respect, have you tried maintenance? I had my Dad's old Ford Escort diesel that he had as a company car then bought off the company when he retired, I think it was about 15 years old near the end but never belched out black smoke - he always taught me diesels have to be maintained. Or was this just poetic licence?

[SueEllen]

Why so desperate to work in s skyscraper in a city? There's no trees, grass, cows, mud, no beautiful frosty morning drives, too many people, too smelly, too dirty, too stressy, too impersonal, too unfriendly.... the list goes on?

You stay where you are and enjoy your higher quality of life.

Doesn't that depend on the city and where you are in it?

European cities are different and several UK cities plant trees on their streets.

Oh and none of the places including cities have had cows anywhere near - horses and deer on a few occasions but definitely no cows.

[up4it]

Milton Keynes has some concrete cows!

See here...
Concrete Cows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[eek]

Doesn't that depend on the city and where you are in it?

European cities are different and several UK cities plant trees on their streets.

Oh and none of the places including cities have had cows anywhere near - horses and deer on a few occasions but definitely no cows.

Newcastle has cows on the town moor every summer.