Life on the Bench - An unemployed contractors story

[SandyDown]

Oracle have very good sales people - they sell Financials or Human Resources systems to companies as "off the shelf" systems. Then the company gets them in and realises that they need to do a stupid amount of tweaking before they can actually use them! Let alone report from them.

Oracle Consultants cost about £2k a day, so people like me are a bargain!

Simple as that really.

Heh, my new project started yesterday is exactly the above, D.S I am doing what you are doing i.e. BA work, but have a technical background (used to be a developer) plus have data mapping/migration analysis so am staying through to implementation etc, I am getting paid very close to SA's rate (its only 500 - but think that's cuz its in the midlands, if it was in London am sure I could ask for £600) however its easy going here, and people (including contractors) start work at 8 am and finish at 4pm so its well worth it for me makes a big diference form my previous projects when often I had to stay in till 8 pm, I feel like a part timer really !!

[MarillionFan]

**** it. Im not charging enough.

[SallyAnne]

i'm a functional monkey. couldn't code my way out of a packet of cornflakes. maybe this is the start of a beautiful friendship?

i can be a pm but prefer not to.

here’s a flippant summary a typical job:
extract client needs
offer best practice solution
build system and crp
redefine design to incorporate legacy design exactly
re-build system and test
re-define system to re-incorporate initial design
re-build and test
go live

Me, you and EO could form our own one stop Oracle shop!! (He's a DBA)

[SallyAnne]

Heh, my new project started yesterday is exactly the above, D.S I am doing what you are doing i.e. BA work, but have a technical background (used to be a developer) plus have data mapping/migration analysis so am staying through to implementation etc, I am getting paid very close to SA's rate (its only 500 - but think that's cuz its in the midlands, if it was in London am sure I could ask for £600) however its easy going here, and people (including contractors) start work at 8 am and finish at 4pm so its well worth it for me makes a big diference form my previous projects when often I had to stay in till 8 pm, I feel like a part timer really !!

Are you Oracle aswell Sandy?

[SandyDown]

Me, you and EO could form our own one stop Oracle shop!! (He's a DBA)

What about me??

Also can we bring loads of Indians and Russians to do all the work for us - we do the consulting and sale bull-£hit and they do the real work then we chanrge £##### cash for them and pay them peanuts

[SallyAnne]

What about me??

Also can we bring loads of Indians and Russians to do all the work for us - we do the consulting and sale bull-£hit and they do the real work then we chanrge £##### cash for them and pay them peanuts

Are you Oracle Apps Sandy?

[SandyDown]

Did loads of oracle based systems and do lots of data mapping, data modelling, data analysis etc, all plus doing the usual business / systems requirements analysis, issues, data flows etc etc !!! am a jack of all trades really

[SandyDown]

well ?? do I get the job?? I can always do PM (basically we can charge £3000 a day for me for doing nothing )


Don't want to do develooment really, been there done that for years got the bludy T-shirt and now I want to have a life, so just design and analysis work + PM work is acceptable for me

[SallyAnne]

oracle based systems

Peasant

[SandyDown]

Peasant

Hey I got a job and you are on the bench