Contracting Market

[suityou01]

So you reckon it would be a bad idea to jack in a 100K job with 5 weeks a year holiday where I work about 60-80 hours a week though with unsociable hours?

I'm not sure you know. I think you're all just making it up.

Remember a good contractor will always get work.

MF in (10 years a contractor blah blah, never a period on the bench, blah blah, 1st for interviews blah blah) Mode.

I'm in the opposite position. I'm in a gig, not the best paid, not the worst paid. And it's away from home, but that goes with the territory. I've been tapped up for a permy gig working for a consultancy based just round the corner from Baker St. I'm going to interview on Thursday, 8am

I must admit the prospect of them interviewing 6 candidates in one morning, and then making a decision to hire on that and that alone worries me slightly. I mean, it doesn't say much about wanting to sell the company, or ensure the right fit for the team. Plus it's an American firm.

This are the subtleties of life I guess. I mean, if I decide to not go for it, and stay contracting and the contract goes tits up I'm fliped as the market it fliped. If on the other hand I take the permy gig and they turn out to be a bunch of tulips I'm fliped as well.

I haven't had a day off for ages, so I thought I'd do the interview and then I have the rest of the day to myself. I think on balance I'd prolly stay contracting and risk the market not picking up. Plus it's not very professional to walk mid contract, so I think my mind is already made up. Still it's good interview practice, plus they want me to do a brief presentation about my work so I've had fun putting a death by powerpoint together.

Decisions decisions.

[minestrone]

Although I am not looking just now I applied for a gig that I should have been a shoe in for to keep in interview pratice. Never even got a call back. Strange times indeed.

[Shimano105]

I think it is a head/heart situation.

Sometimes my head says with the uncertainty, time away from home, no training/sick pay and with current rates, I may as well go permie.

But my gut instinct says: 60-80 hour weeks? monotony? politics? office parties? team-building? appraisals? feeling of working to make boss rich?

Fook that.

[Bagpuss]

So you reckon it would be a bad idea to jack in a 100K job with 5 weeks a year holiday where I work about 60-80 hours a week though with unsociable hours?

I'm not sure you know. I think you're all just making it up.

Remember a good contractor will always get work.

MF in (10 years a contractor blah blah, never a period on the bench, blah blah, 1st for interviews blah blah) Mode.

Good old CUK...Nothing like engineered bragging posts or 1 legged arse kicking competitions. How frail the egos must really be.

[suityou01]

Good old CUK...Nothing like engineered bragging posts or 1 legged arse kicking competitions. How frail the egos must really be.

Not forgetting the holier-than-thous - bagpuss.

[PerlOfWisdom]

Imagine going out and having a skinful of Guinness and several large vindaloos.
Then imagine the next morning on the toilet as all the waste products from the previous night emerge
- get up and look down at the toilet bowl.
See what you have produced, then multiply it a thousand fold until it fills the new Wembly stadium.

How big a toilet bowl is a thousandth the volume of Wembly stadium?

[Menelaus]

I did a long(ish) gig a few years ago that the clientco wanted to hire me direct and started the negotiations on money from week four of my being there and didn't stop until week twenty when I told the HR director in no uncertain terms that I didn't want it.

[TiroFijo]

Gonna be looking too...

I have just been laid off from my contract in the USA where I was for the last 9 months. I am a Brit so I have decided to head back to the UK after having 6 weeks off in South America which will put my arrival back in Blighty about mid July. I am a Java bod with 10 years experience using Java and everything that goes with it... so is there much going on in the Java market reet noo?

Cheers!

[Menelaus]

I have just been laid off from my contract in the USA where I was for the last 9 months. I am a Brit so I have decided to head back to the UK after having 6 weeks off in South America which will put my arrival back in Blighty about mid July. I am a Java bod with 10 years experience using Java and everything that goes with it... so is there much going on in the Java market reet noo?

Cheers!

Not a Java bod, but try jobserve?

[suityou01]

I have just been laid off from my contract in the USA where I was for the last 9 months. I am a Brit so I have decided to head back to the UK after having 6 weeks off in South America which will put my arrival back in Blighty about mid July. I am a Java bod with 10 years experience using Java and everything that goes with it... so is there much going on in the Java market reet noo?

Cheers!

THE CONTRACTING MARKET IS FLIPED

HTH