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do I know you? this is the third time Ive heard this said in the last 48 hours! An Agent said the same!!
It's wishful thinking IMHO. Also, looking at that grim graph someone cited a day or two ago, even when the upturn starts it'll probably be like the days starting to get longer - painfully slow at first.
Just to give some bench news from my own position here, I too have been applying like mad "location not an issue, willing to travel".. good CV in my field/qualifications/etc.. and I'm hearing almost nothing back at all on anything.
I got into a discussion this morning for a project co-ordinator / BA hybrid role today and almost fell off my chair when they quoted £100pd.
I've been on the bench for a month, but bagged a two-month contract in Bath, where I'll be staying in a B&B three doors from the client site! (I'm based in London)
But the rate is rubbish (£250 per day), and I suspect the market will still be as dead as a dodo when I finish in march.
Congrats OH - anything is better than nothing eh? You've obviously done really well to land it
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
The guys at the Nissan fatory would jump at £100 a day
The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”
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