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A contractor has a 6 month contract, say January to June.
Spouse says he/she needs to show the client ulitmate commitment. "Taking a one week break is not a good, shows lack of commitment. Especially since the contractor just started new contract in January."
Disagreement ensues.
In the past, the contractor has asked the other clients if the date/time away affect project plans well in advanced; and this has worked previously well for different employers, clients and managers.
The time the contractor wants away is one week at the beginning of March, or possibly the end of February and then nothing more would be taken or requested. Essentially 1 week in a whole 6 month contract.
The spouse disagrees as the contractor should be thinking about the under-pressure manager. Spouse says the contractor is being very well paid to ultimately "fix the client's pain", what the contractor is doing is showing lack of respect of their circumstance and plus it does not look good, especially in a newly won contract, where the contractor has not quite got his or her feet on the ground yet and is running with the ball.
The experienced Contractor thinks this way out of order. A 3 month contract [Jan - Mar] understandable, but 6 months [Jan - June] is long time. One week away is not going to hurt [ in the contractor's experience]. The project true deadline is in June/July. Contractor does not understand the spouse's point of view.
I am wondering about other contractor's experiences in holiday/conference/training time in a 6-12 month contracts. I know contractors who have never taken time off during a contract and some contractors who say yada. It depends I think. What's your thoughts?
A contractor has a 6 month contract, say January to June.
Spouse says he/she needs to show the client ulitmate commitment. "Taking a one week break is not a good, shows lack of commitment. Especially since the contractor just started new contract in January."
Disagreement ensues.
In the past, the contractor has asked the other clients if the date/time away affect project plans well in advanced; and this has worked previously well for different employers, clients and managers.
The time the contractor wants away is one week at the beginning of March, or possibly the end of February and then nothing more would be taken or requested. Essentially 1 week in a whole 6 month contract.
The spouse disagrees as the contractor should be thinking about the under-pressure manager. Spouse says the contractor is being very well paid to ultimately "fix the client's pain", what the contractor is doing is showing lack of respect of their circumstance and plus it does not look good, especially in a newly won contract, where the contractor has not quite got his or her feet on the ground yet and is running with the ball.
The experienced Contractor thinks this way out of order. A 3 month contract [Jan - Mar] understandable, but 6 months [Jan - June] is long time. One week away is not going to hurt [ in the contractor's experience]. The project true deadline is in June/July. Contractor does not understand the spouse's point of view.
I am wondering about other contractor's experiences in holiday/conference/training time in a 6-12 month contracts. I know contractors who have never taken time off during a contract and some contractors who say yada. It depends I think. What's your thoughts?
Sounds like contractor is under the thumb of the spouse. 
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