Budge up!

[BrilloPad]

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

[Milkyway]

Lacking thick skin indeed.

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.

[norrahe]

You've now got some time to work on your voddy and tonic drinking!

[Pogle]

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 ....

[Pogle]

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

[norrahe]

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

[tarbera]

Budge up!

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

[cojak]

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.

[Pogle]

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

[original PM]

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?