Contracting and Property Market similarities

[AlfredJPruffock]

Works out as a sort of a 7/y wheel turn (good to bad)
Property up: 1985-90 - Property down: 1990-1999
Property up: 1999-2008 - Prop. down: 2008-2013 (?)
Contracting good: 1996-2001 - Contr. bad: 2001-03
Contracting good: 2003-2008 - Contr. bad: 2008-10 (?)

I think somewhere in the Bible it mentions seven years of harvest and seven years of famine ...

[BlasterBates]

Yup....fill your granaries.

Hard times don't matter as long as you fill your Granary.

[Xenophon]

I think somewhere in the Bible it mentions seven years of harvest and seven years of famine ...

It also mentions turning water into wine and that is impossible. Unless you're David Blaine. Lord knows I have tried many times.

[Platypus]

Once a permie, always a permie, I'd say. It's not that they can't hack it (some of them are just as good), it's the permie mentality that is 'embedded' in their heads.

So, you were never ever a permie, ever? Just left uni and went straight into contracting?

You clearly haven't got anything brain-shaped embedded in your head.

[beercohol]

Yes and that sickening self-righteousness. Not to mention the same old circular arguments about tax. The growing frustration in their voice when you floor their unconsidered opinions with good reasoning...

Now there's a good angle. It might turn their envy into sympathy - I could live with that. I could also milk it by arriving to the office with packed sandwiches and a Ford Granada (Mk 3 of course. The 2.8 Ghia X model, no need to truly rough it).