How long on the bench?

[bobsmithldn]

How long you been on the bench, init!

[DiscoStu]

Andyw decides how long I'm on the bench.

[The Lone Gunman]

7 months and counting.

[rootsnall]

7 months and counting.

Can you not some hod carrying work on that big hotel revamp on Morecambe sea front ?

[Troll]

Can you not some hod carrying work on that big hotel revamp on Morecambe sea front ?

I expect the Eastern Europeans have snapped up that one

[bobsmithldn]

7 months and counting.

Wow, what industry?

[The Lone Gunman]

Wow, what industry?

I am an ada software engineer. Mostly in avionics and defence.
Some of it was voluntary as I have been abroad and needed to get my SC back. I had to wait 4 months for that and then the job I was being cleared for went West.

[rootsnall]

I am an ada software engineer.

That was my first job many moons ago and I still get emails and very occasional calls about it from non CV reading agents. Why didn't you jump to something more lucrative during the boom years !? Aren't BAe always short of Ada people ?

[The Lone Gunman]

That was my first job many moons ago and I still get emails and very occasional calls about it from non CV reading agents. Why didn't you jump to something more lucrative during the boom years !? Aren't BAe always short of Ada people ?

I have been getting along quite nicely for the last 10 years. Never needed to cross over to anything else. I wouldn't be averse to changing tack, but have not realy done anything else for 10 years. Considering looking at PM work, but need to do Prince2 and ITIL courses to even be considered.
Things have gone a little dry lately and BAe have gone very quiet while they work out what to do after losing a major order. They got rid of 600 staffers and are still distributing work and workforce. They will start taking on again once they are sorted.

[rootsnall]

I have been getting along quite nicely for the last 10 years. Never needed to cross over to anything else. I wouldn't be averse to changing tack, but have not realy done anything else for 10 years. Considering looking at PM work, but need to do Prince2 and ITIL courses to even be considered.
Things have gone a little dry lately and BAe have gone very quiet while they work out what to do after losing a major order. They got rid of 600 staffers and are still distributing work and workforce. They will start taking on again once they are sorted.

BAe was part of my wind things down and get a cushy number Up Nth plan by reverting back to Ada. One thing to be said for it is the contracts last forever and a day if you can take the pain. When things were dead in 2003 I did make a brief enquiry but they laughed at me after 10 years away. Luckily .Net is still ticking along nicely and I'll probably never look at a line of Ada again.