Ooops, a rude word...almost

[PAH]

Contracting rates will drop to less than £150 a day with all these redundant permies going contracting.

Not necessarily. Only yesterday I had a CV through* from a permie who openly admitted to

having tried contracting and it not being to his taste

So apparently not everyone is cut out for this contracting lark.

* That's what happens when you put your own limited company on the work experience section of your CV to cover any gaps. The pimps are always sending speculative CVs through, even though it's about 5 years ago and I never reply or encourage them.

[Marina]

Of course this may be someone who _does_ have a taste for contracting but for whatever reason wants a safe permie bolthole for a year or two and has found they have to pretend they don't like contracting so recruiters don't assume this person will do a runner the moment things improve.

(if one can call any paid occupation safe these days)

[Diver]

Of course this may be someone who _does_ have a taste for contracting but for whatever reason wants a safe permie bolthole for a year or two and has found they have to pretend they don't like contracting so recruiters don't assume this person will do a runner the moment things improve.

(if one can call any occupation safe these days)

Undertaker

[SueEllen]

Undertaker

Midwife

[PAH]

Of course this may be someone who _does_ have a taste for contracting but for whatever reason wants a safe permie bolthole for a year or two and has found they have to pretend they don't like contracting so recruiters don't assume this person will do a runner the moment things improve.

I didn't think of that. Nice CV by the way.

If things somehow got so bad that I wanted or had to go back to permiedom, I'd probably pretend the contracts were permie positions anyway. Not too difficult when my average contract length is close to 2 years, longer than some permies stick around for anyway!

[expat]

£100-£125 per day is not just rude it's obscene imho.

They'll probably get someone who's worth about that. Oh dear, I hope that's what they want.

[BrowneIssue]

Undertaker

Nah.

It's a dying trade.

[Diver]

Nah.

It's a dying trade.

IGYC

[miffy]

Midwife

teacher

I was with one a few years ago. She seemed pretty smug that a teaching job is for life and recession proof.

Anyone disagree?

I would have agreed with her, apart from the fact she was teaching 14-15 year olds. She was probably in greater danger of being stabbed by the kids at the rough school she was working at.

[SueEllen]

teacher

I was with one a few years ago. She seemed pretty smug that a teaching job is for life and recession proof.

Anyone disagree?

I would have agreed with her, apart from the fact she was teaching 14-15 year olds. She was probably in greater danger of being stabbed by the kids at the rough school she was working at.

I do.

Teaching is only safe if:
1. You are teacher of a scarce subject like physical sciences, technology or maths
2. You get on with the various heads you have

I have friends who are teachers and:
1.One of them got "restructured" 2 years ago with about 5 other teachers at her school. She was happy because she had just had a sprog and has a rich husband.
2. Also a friend who is soon to be a headteacher has been involved in suggesting teachers leave the schools that she has worked in due to unsatisfactory performance.

Also I remember when teachers in my secondary school where restructured:
1. The language teachers retired or found something else to do.
2. The music department was downsized. It was the teacher's own fault she prevented lots of pupils playing instruments and did herself out of a job.There isn't a great need for music teachers in state secondary schools.
3. An RE teacher was told to leave.