Yep, another boomed thread. Contract came through today for another year's extension so that'll be my 3rd year on this contract, nice. In fact things are quite good. Was in the UK last week on gig number 2 where we signed off on a contract to move a financial institutions application away from the UK which is the third one recently and hopefully more to come. Since Sunday I've been in Washington DC for gig number 2 to do some high falutin technical stuff, later on this week we'll pick the company's plane (actually we just lease it and it's only a 5 seater Cessna) and fly up to Harrisburg to start a PoC for a health service provider and then back to Washington and the end of next week we'll pop up to New York for a couple of meetings for a lot more planned work in the new year. Its all go...
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Yes, still a lot of offshoring to low cost, low salaried support countries. It's difficult managing an application.Originally posted by darmstadt View PostYep, another boomed thread. Contract came through today for another year's extension so that'll be my 3rd year on this contract, nice. In fact things are quite good. Was in the UK last week on gig number 2 where we signed off on a contract to move a financial institutions application away from the UK which is the third one recently and hopefully more
We're focusing on the good stuff here. Current client is expanding their global offering into a further 80 countries. The EU is small compared to the rest of the World and no growth for the last couple of years.
Have a

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