Good gig & bad skills or vice versa?

[Euro-commuter]

How much more dosh? That would be my only question.

Environment is very important, I liked relaxed media environments where you can dress down and feel comfortable, I always regret accepting roles in stuffy corporate shirt and tie environments, and will in fact from now focus on trying to get roles within web/media company's. Corporate environments make me laugh, where Friday is 'dress-down' day ("no offensive logo's on t-shirts please"), reminds me of Hawaiian shirt day in the movie Office Space

Acquiring skills is not a big problem unless you are just starting out, depending on what you do, if you have a good base skill set and are relatively sharp you can pick most skills up on the job, or from reading/experimenting in your own time.

Oh yeah, as a contractor you want to be able to see the money, or at least smell it: not just have a hint that it might improve your career later.

Casual Friday: never. I will dress up if the client likes it. But I won't then dress down one day a week, just so that they can ram home the fact that I jump when they say jump.