New gig today, bit of a dilemma...

[d000hg]

Stick with it. You'd be mad to pass up the opportunity to get some made-up Prince experience onto your CV. Swallow your pride, it's only a short contract and it might lead to proper work

If you're going to lie about the contract on your CV, you might as well just add an entirely made up contract!

[expat]

Stick with it. You'd be mad to pass up the opportunity to get some made-up Prince experience onto your CV. Swallow your pride, it's only a short contract and it might lead to proper work

Jack it in, no question. You would be mad to allow yourself to be treated like a temp, it's not a proper Prince role, you have been led up the garden path mate. Move to plan B immediately

My sentiments exactly!

[SallyAnne]

Sounds like the NHS.

just what I was thinking!

[SallyAnne]

Where's the dilema here?

You're a contractor - you work for (a) money, (b) experience to go on your CV, which will in the future earn you more money.

You PM's make me laugh - you all want the "status" - if this task you've been given is "beneath" you then stop contracting at once and go and sign up with a consultancy firm, where you can wear your shiney PM crown with glory and be admired from your corner office by all

Or, just do the fecking work, take the money, stick on your CV that you are doing PM work on a government project, and get your CV back out there for something better to come along.....AKA BE A CONTRACTOR!

[Turion]

This sucks man! Can we know what the rate is/was. Well done for walking..

This sounds a total waste of time and very much a office temp type of thing, and it's not even it IT.

If you know a skill, just put it in your CV somewhere nice and prominent. That's what I do and I don't need to do some shiite temp job to justify it.

[Bright Spark]

WSS, if anything your in a much better position being in a contract and
trying to negotiate or get a new gig, than from sitting on the bench!

Also sell up the work your doing, so "Inputting data into spreadsheet"
becomes "Developing systems, processes and procedures to faciliate
large scale data warehouse and analysis to enable strategic decision making".

[Fred Bloggs]

Or, just do the fliping work, take the money, stick on your CV that you are doing PM work on a government project, and get your CV back out there for something better to come along.....AKA BE A CONTRACTOR!

Excellent advice there. Be creative on the CV after this job, it's about the only way to get your rate up from where you are now.

[badger7579]

It's nothing to do with status its to do with securing a contract that utilises the skills you have.

I've been a PM for about 6 years and been PRINCE2 Prac for a year and a half. So far every role I've had have had some PRINCE involvement but I've never worked in a full blown PRINCE environment. That seems to be the domain of the public sector.

While I agree on one hand that as contractors we do the job and invoice it sounds like this guy has been mis sold the requirements of the contract, data entry is not project management and the longer you dont use your PM skills they start to get rusty.

I'd perhaps do this contract for a limited time if I was desperate, if not I'd walk.

[Ravello]

If it really is temp job standard stuff, why not get a subby in to do the data entry, pay them your rate minus X% finder's fee. Where X = whatever you think you can get away with.

You get on with plan B, get shot of some dull work and avoid any potential IR35 issues - boomed

[EternalOptimist]

If you're going to lie about the contract on your CV, you might as well just add an entirely made up contract!

whats your prfoblem ?