How Much To Go Perm?

[TykeMerc]

That's the Acid Test isn't it ?

I think it's times like these we get to see who the contractors really are ...!

I don't see contracting as a badge of achievement, it's a means to an end (earning a decent living) and I simply don't understand why people make a fuss about it, there are plus and minus points to contracting.

[Liability]

I don't see contracting as a badge of achievement, it's a means to an end (earning a decent living) and I simply don't understand why people make a fuss about it, there are plus and minus points to contracting.

Agree - alll this "separates men from the boys" stuff is odd to say the least. I just do it for Money - no other reason.

[Bagpuss]

...what Basic would you look for to go Perm right now?.....

Deirdrie Barlow or Kevin Keegan Perm?

[BrilloPad]

I want to arn what andyw earns.

[zara_backdog]

I admit I'm strange, but if I was ever to get a permie role it would be because I had a nice little job, just down the road from where I live on flexi time, the money would come in after this. Somehow I do not think that will ever happen.

So, I accept the commute to where I work, the handling of my own financial affairs and all the hassle of dealing with agents and hope to remain my number one employee.

[xux42]

Maybe I have missed the point of the forum but I'm sitting here wondering why no one has answered the question!

35K for a 4 day/28hour week + Non-contrib pension + Family BUPA + 24 days holiday + 30min commute to secure on-site parking + 4 months salary redundancy entitlement.

[minestrone]

I would do the same as mitch, something else rather than go permie. I am a trained butcher and would rather do that for 15 grand a year than a crappy permie job working for some Bill Lumbergh type.

[TheFaQQer]

£75k+ basic + package.

[shoes]

I would take a permie job if any existed outside of the dilbert universe. I have never ever seen or heard of any company where a dilbert existence is not absolutely guaranteed.

At least when contracting I can laugh at it whilst making good money, and I know it's not forever.

Given the choice of unemployment or dilbert employment, I'll take unemployment.

[basshead]

Maybe I have missed the point of the forum but I'm sitting here wondering why no one has answered the question!

Answering the question is in a long queue behind more important things that need to go into a CUK post such as:

1) Trying to look clever
2) Pointing out spelling mistakes
3) Having a go at the poster
4) Doom
5) Boom
6) AndyW

and so on.