Job market...

[Xenophon]

You are quite correct.

18 months.

Then I got a "permie" min wage job fixing fruit machine logic boards for a while.

Ah, cheers for replying.

[Xenophon]

I do, however, have the urge to go contracting once again, but embedded C and assembler programming isn't in great demand.

...and leave your cushy education job - surely not?!

[Xenophon]

Total boredom?

You've never lived until you've sat all alone in a building for 6 weeks doing bugger all. (Summer vacation: academics disappear like greased lightning, the hewers of wood & drawers of water hang about for the entire time).

Hmmm, good point.

[Zorba]

Total boredom?

You've never lived until you've sat all alone in a building for 6 weeks doing bugger all. (Summer vacation: academics disappear like greased lightning, the hewers of wood & drawers of water hang about for the entire time).

Having worked in that sector myself and been in that exact situation, it's amazing what skills you can pick up without any supervision or goals. I ended up figuring out how to lay cat5 and wired up some ports to student rooms.

I also found some real abandoned places. Spooky.

[n5gooner]

ok made my mind up, played the three offers against each other, got a 40% rise from the advertised rate, so it looks like I'm going to be back in Banking for a while!!!!


and I have to say, all the agents were very good, no bad reports for any of them.....

[xoggoth]

embedded C and assembler programming isn't in great demand

Really? Both still used a good deal in aircraft electronics, Smiths Aerospace etc.