Any room on the bench?

[Diestl]

I'm on the bench (since end of March, though was on holiday first week of April), after a 9 monther at a bank, but have an interview tomorrow so here's hoping! Been swatting up and read a whole 800 techi book in the last 4 days!. Im sure the market will start picking up in the next few weeks.

[Tensai]

I'm on the bench (since end of March, though was on holiday first week of April), after a 9 monther at a bank, but have an interview tomorrow so here's hoping! Been swatting up and lightly skimmed a whole 800 page dummies book in the last 4 days!. Im sure the market will start picking up in the next few weeks.

[Marina]

My current renewal ends on 5 May, and there's not much chance of it being renewed again, as there's only typically an hour or two's work a day and the client even with their haphazard management style are starting to twig that I'm a luxury they can't afford

[MrRobin]

You should all retrain into the world of logistics.

Boomed I tells ya!

This is somthing that I think would really interest me... operational research and optimisation and the like. How do you get into it?

[PAH]

but what you never know is whether there's a couple of candidates for each job, or a thousand candidates for each job.

One contract in the north west that I applied for had 30 applicants according to the agent, which is a little worrying.

Reminds me of the last downturn when there would be queues of contractors turning up for an interview, and getting the nod instead of them was more a lottery than anything.

I'm in limbo at the moment. Looks like I may have landed a contract but got to wait 4-6 weeks for the security vetting before I can be sure, and anything can happen to the project by then. Doesn't look like much else is going to turn up in the meantime.

Good luck to everybody who isn't a .net developer and going to be competing with me for work!

[Diestl]

But alas its a MS Press book, and I've read nearly every page, it's so dry and dull. MS must be the most boring company in the world, the way they name things etc. This is a quote from the book and the authors attempt to make the book less dry

Application.Lock();
//Put some code that does cool stuff here
Application.Unlock();

[DimPrawn]

It's grim out there isn't it?

Client would only agree to a 45% rate increase and refuses to extend my contract beyond 2011. Damn those sub-prime borrowers in the US of A!

[DimPrawn]

But alas its a MS Press book, and I've read nearly every page, it's so dry and dull. MS must be the most boring company in the world, the way they name things etc. This is a quote from the book and the authors attempt to make the book less dry

Application.Lock();
//Put some code that does cool stuff here
Application.Unlock();

Learning ASP.NET are we?

[Diestl]

Learning ASP.NET are we?

No just refreshing, was on a 9 month WinForms contract so need to remind myself of the new stuff in ASP.NET 2. Also it's a cert book so I might site the exam after I finish reading it! Unless I first.

[PAH]

.Net is saturated. I'd probably have more luck finding work with my ancient COBOL skills.