Traitors

[minestrone]

I doubt many places would take me on as a permie, I am also too well qualified just to go in and do a code monkeys job like I do contracting. My last permie position was technical lead of a company.

I have also got enough to keep going for a couple of years and plan B is looking very promising at the moment.

After that I can always fall back on the girl's public sector wage.

[Purple Dalek]

WHS

Plus the problem is if the clients have any brains they won't take you on as a permie knowing you'll jump ship when things pick up. I made a few half hearted permie enquiries in the last slump and got nowhere with teens of years of contracting on my CV.

Most places I know the contractors are the longest serving "members of staff"...

[Mich the Tester]

Most places I know the contractors are the longest serving "members of staff"...

WHS

There are people around here that I thought were permies and have been here for years; it's only when they started chatting about the rate cuts for 2009 that I realized they're contractors.

[TheFaQQer]

I'd consider it, if I was out of work for too long.

Problem is that I don't think there are many permie jobs that would give me the long holidays that I want to take each year.

[Zippy]

I would think about it but the question is academic - nobody would employ me after being in the wild for so long

[BrilloPad]

I am currently looking at contract and permie. Anything to get through current storm.

Hope I can stay contract after 20 years continuous service.

[NickFitz]

From TFA:

Almost 500 of 1,000 IT contract project managers surveyed said looking for a job on a full-time basis was the best strategy in their receding market.

Is it really valid to draw conclusions about contractors as a whole when the survey is only of contractor PMs?

[OwlHoot]

WHS

Plus the problem is if the clients have any brains they won't take you on as a permie knowing you'll jump ship when things pick up. I made a few half hearted permie enquiries in the last slump and got nowhere with teens of years of contracting on my CV.

Was about to post almost the same.

In the last recession nobody would touch me with a bargepole when I applied for permie roles.

[Mich the Tester]

I spoke to the IT director of my last clientco on the phone yesterday and he said he’d had >50 CVs arrive for one job, whereas he’d have been lucky to have 5 last year. However, when I asked him how many were suitable for the job he said ‘same as before, not more than two’.

[DaveB]

Already done it, started last Monday.