taking holidays

[contractor79]

Do you take holidays within contracts?
Lost income + cost of holiday = £thousands

If you're on a £2k/week contract, and a holiday would set you back £1k/week... then taking 6-7 weeks holiday in a year costs you up to £20k

[Spartacus]

If you thought like that you'd never do anything. Of course there's nothing wrong with trying to maximise your income while you're in a contract but you're not losing anything, you're just not gaining it.

[contractor79]

If you thought like that you'd never do anything. Of course there's nothing wrong with trying to maximise your income while you're in a contract but you're not losing anything, you're just not gaining it.

agreed
I'm not saying people shouldn't take holidays
need to have a healthy mentality and book the holidays and not worry about the money "lost"

[Xenophon]

I nearly cracked up after a long period without any time off. It is not worth it. Holidays are all good.

[contractor79]

apart from week off for last Christmas, bankholidays, the odd day off sick, I've worked non-stop for about 2 years. Taking holidays now.

[ratewhore]

Wow, that must drop your turnover from what? £150K to £120K per year. How do you get by?

Listen to Spartacus, he's right...

[Spartacus]

Listen to Spartacus, he's right...

That's because I am ratewhore.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Do you take holidays within contracts?
Lost income + cost of holiday = £thousands

If you're on a £2k/week contract, and a holiday would set you back £1k/week... then taking 6-7 weeks holiday in a year costs you up to £20k

What's a holiday?

[TykeMerc]

15 months with nothing apart from Statutory holidays here. One reason I refused to extend my last (very lucrative) gig was I intend to take July and much of August off.
I'm absolutely knackered, yes 6 weeks off > £12k to me, but it's that or fall apart.

[contractor79]

sow how many holidays do you guys take
bank holidays and the odd day off takes your weeks worked down from 52 to 50
6 weeks hols takes it down to 44
so do you work 44 weeks perhaps. the contractor calculators tend to use 44 weeks.