The contract market

[Ivor Bigun]

Similar to everyone else, I've had agents beating a path to my door. I turned down twelve offers and signed up for another two years at my current client on triple the money.

Plan B is in fruition but only making a couple of million a year so I can't make the leap yet. Not until I've finished sorting out plans C, D and E anyway.

Boomed! Over the last 4 weeks, its picked up nicely again .
Lots of immediate starts for +6 months including one I'm really interested in. Its a great rate and local to home.
Not going to bite yet - Reckon I'll make the agent scum sweat a bit more before I accept it. Also, I'll try and blag for an extra 10% after a verbal acceptance of the gig.

[PAH]

Also, I'll try and blag for an extra 10% after a verbal acceptance of the gig.

I once managed that, for legitimate reasons. Accepted a gig over the phone, then said I needed a better rate or I was going to pull out due to the high cost of hotels near the client site.

Found a cheap b&b anyway.

[JohannM]

Ireland

Things seem quite dead here in Ireland

[swamp]

Things seem quite dead here in Ireland

So was this thread before you revived it! Is the Internet that slow over there?

[JohannM]

hehe

well, its fairly slow but not that slow, am just catching up

[DocP]

IBench

Well, I've been implementing the System.Bench interface for a whole month now. I got laid off just before Xmas with a few other contractors. They are still looking. But hey with an MCTS in MOSS 2007, the boom times surely beckon?

[suityou01]

Things seem quite dead here in Ireland

Quite slow in London as well. Been on jobserve all year. There was a slight rally the second week in Jan, then most Wednesday afternoons I get three or four calls. Other than that, dead. Dead dead dead. Doom doom doom.

[norrahe]

There's been the over excitable flurry of the new year and then all those promises have faded to nothing.

To be honest it was to be expected given the current climate.

[expat]

There's been the over excitable flurry of the new year and then all those promises have faded to nothing.

To be honest it was to be expected given the current climate.

A quick flurry and then nothing moving? That's the current climate all right!

[suityou01]

There's been the over excitable flurry of the new year and then all those promises have faded to nothing.

To be honest it was to be expected given the current climate.

New budgets coming up?