Paddington on £35k

[BoredBloke]

Tell him to stop phoning unlwess the rate = 50k

[Sockpuppet]

tell him to poke it then!!

Seems to me you already know the answer...

I just felt like venting....this is the first day I've had to do at a customer site and now I realise why I like working fro home so much... dont deny me this one pleasure that I can rant.

[ratewhore]

I just felt like venting....this is the first day I've had to do at a customer site and now I realise why I like working fro home so much... dont deny me this one pleasure that I can rant.

Is having someones hand up your arse not pleasure enough??

[tim123]

I'd love to know how they place people into these types of roles.

ITYF that they are relatively recent Grads. A quick calculations shows that this is the same, real-term, salary as I was on when I left a perm job to become a contractor with three years experience. Employers may like to get seasoned people at these salaries, but they rarely can.

On that rate, after tax you'll be pulling in about 2k a month. You'll struggle to rent let alone buy on that salary in that location

I refer the Honorable Gentleman to the answer that I gave in a different thread about being able to live in self contained accomodation in the South East. You'll recall (or not) that I couldn't afford to do this on a perm's salary.

People on the sort of salary that a 2-3 year experience grad would get, cannot afford to live on their own in most of the SE. They can't do it now, they couldn't do it 10 years ago, they couldn't do it 20 years ago, and they (probably) couldn't do it 30 years ago.

Nothing has changed here (except the relative cost of buying against renting).

tim

[sasguru]

People on the sort of salary that a 2-3 year experience grad would get, cannot afford to live on their own in most of the SE. They can't do it now, they couldn't do it 10 years ago, they couldn't do it 20 years ago, and they (probably) couldn't do it 30 years ago.

Nothing has changed here (except the relative cost of buying against renting).

tim

Nonsense. I bought my first property (2 bed garden flat, zone 5) on my second job 2 years after graduation.
How much you ask? 56K - read it and weep

[wendigo100]

I'd love to know how they place people into these types of roles.

35K isn't bad for someone who already lives in the area.

But I agree - I've seen roles in my line of work for not much more than half that, and I wonder what standard of contractor they get.

[Sockpuppet]

35K isn't bad for someone who already lives in the area.

But I agree - I've seen roles in my line of work for not much more than half that, and I wonder what standard of contractor they get.

I dont live in the area...

The job spec says "<client-DHL-working-for> respects the employees and therefore any employee already living in the Paddington area will be highly considered".

Is that code for "we dont expect anyone to even consider moving for this..."

I also just got the bi-monthly trawl from Pepsi after having seen my CV and asking me for "more details". Feck sake...

[wendigo100]

I dont live in the area...

I assumed not. I was replying to someone who wondered how anyone could take that job.