Is it my imagination or has the contractor market suddenly gone almost dead?
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Bit quiet out there
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Found it to be the complete opposite over last two days, went from completly dead to live and kicking. Now if they would just stop posting contracts where people must have 1 billion years of financial/banking experience. -
yeah what is with that? I bet even the cleaners require 5 years banking experience!
Can't see it really making a huge difference......Comment
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That I've noticed. Agents are calling me constantly but no interviews are getting set up and I have yeeeaaarrrs of financial service. Maybe its just me but I've had little trouble in the past. At 40 am I "over-the-hill"? (on paper at least, still a pretty-boy in the flesh)Comment
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Very quiet for me too. A few agencies snooping around asking about my availability, and then coming out with some crap that a new project is coming up soon and could they have two references now, just to get me 'ahead of the game'. Tossers !
Anyway let's get back to real life ....... Would you do her ?

I just might after a few pintsComment
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Hmmm... interesting profanity filter.
The word w ankers shows as ******* but the word Tossers shows up ok.
I wonder what the word **** looks like ?Comment
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well it looks exactly like ****. Or ****. Or wank. Oh no this one passes. Or *******? tulip? ****?
MmmmmChico, what time is it?Comment
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More blueish I wold have said. Thena again, you giant alien lizards always have had a problem with visible spectrum colour perception haven't you?
Here she is in real life...
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I've been looking for just under a month now.
I think it's pretty dead, but fortunately Fleetwood plc has a few quid put away to help us through these dark days
We must strike at the lies that have spread like disease through our mindsComment
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