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    #11
    Careful when sitting down. You don't want to sit on that guinea pig.

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      #12
      Lacking thick skin indeed.

      Originally posted by Pogle View Post
      From the tone of your post I'm assuming you haven’t been doing this long have you?
      Most of what agents say can be ignored apart from details about the interview they want you to go on or the start date.
      You need a thick skin to be a contractor.
      The longest I've spent on the bench is 8 months in 2008, I'm sorry you're finding it a bit quiet out there.
      The market for my (niche) skill set is quite buoyant, but I can hold out for about 6 months if I need to and if the worst comes to the worst I could always get a permie job with a consultancy

      Good luck!
      Hey thanks.

      Well I have been contracting for a while now, about 12 years.
      But I do not have that thick skin perhaps as you say, possibly because I have never had a break in between contracts - apart from a few days, literally

      Since I found the market to be crap these days, at least in my experience, I thought I should alert you in case you Did not know. As they say, every little helps, including a timely suggestion / alert. That was the intention of my tone, nothing else.

      You do seem to be very seasoned contractor from what you say and your bench time from the past, etc., so you know what you are doing

      So please do ignore my post ... My apologies.

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        #13
        You've now got some time to work on your voddy and tonic drinking!
        "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

        Norrahe's blog

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          #14
          Originally posted by norrahe View Post
          You've now got some time to work on your voddy and tonic drinking!
          Just bought my self a nice bottle of zubrowka, as it happens ....
          I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

          Pogle is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
          CUK University Challenge Champions 2010
          CUK University Challenge Champions 2012

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            #15
            Originally posted by Milkyway View Post
            Hey thanks.

            Well I have been contracting for a while now, about 12 years.
            But I do not have that thick skin perhaps as you say, possibly because I have never had a break in between contracts - apart from a few days, literally

            Since I found the market to be crap these days, at least in my experience, I thought I should alert you in case you Did not know. As they say, every little helps, including a timely suggestion / alert. That was the intention of my tone, nothing else.

            You do seem to be very seasoned contractor from what you say and your bench time from the past, etc., so you know what you are doing

            So please do ignore my post ... My apologies.
            Hmm now theres a big assumption!!
            But seriously i hope the dry spell ends for you soon, and in the mean time enjoy your time off
            I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

            Pogle is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
            CUK University Challenge Champions 2010
            CUK University Challenge Champions 2012

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              #16
              Originally posted by Pogle View Post
              Just bought my self a nice bottle of zubrowka, as it happens ....
              I have about 5 bottles of different types in my freezer currently.

              They are classified as mixing voddy, voddy and tonic voddy and of course martini voddy, might have got a tad into cocktails in the last couple of years
              "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

              Norrahe's blog

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                #17
                Budge up!

                Approaching the dead zone end October to Feb / get in soon or prepare for winter fell

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Milkyway View Post
                  Hey thanks.

                  Well I have been contracting for a while now, about 12 years.
                  But I do not have that thick skin perhaps as you say, possibly because I have never had a break in between contracts - apart from a few days, literally

                  Since I found the market to be crap these days, at least in my experience, I thought I should alert you in case you Did not know. As they say, every little helps, including a timely suggestion / alert. That was the intention of my tone, nothing else.

                  You do seem to be very seasoned contractor from what you say and your bench time from the past, etc., so you know what you are doing

                  So please do ignore my post ... My apologies.
                  Nope, you meant well.
                  "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                  - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by tarbera View Post
                    Approaching the dead zone end October to Feb / get in soon or prepare for winter fell

                    I've never really subscribed to the 'dead zone' theory and so I just looked over my CV and in the 9 years I've been contracting 63% of my contracts have started between November and February.
                    So it would appear to be a 'live zone' for me
                    I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

                    Pogle is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
                    CUK University Challenge Champions 2010
                    CUK University Challenge Champions 2012

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Pogle View Post
                      Pogle is on the bench
                      Just finished 22 months in London and looking forward to a bit of a rest.
                      Contract before this was 45 months with a 4 week gap in between, so not too fussed about finding my next contratct ... YET.

                      The sun is shining and the birds are singing up here in Manchester, I have a box set of Kurosawa Samurai films to watch and am writing a lit of all the chores i want to get done in the next few weeks.
                      Life is good!

                      I give it 4 weeks before I'm bored out of my mind and heading back down South though
                      I did not know you were from the promised land.... (albeit a rather wet one this morning)

                      or do you really mean Wilmslow?

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