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What Rate Are You Holding Out For?

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    #11
    Originally posted by zeitghost
    £7.50/hr.
    I'll do it for £7.00
    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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      #12
      Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
      I'll do it for £7.00
      £1.99

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        #13
        Originally posted by joey122 View Post
        I see a number of posts saying that they are waiting for rates to improve...

        For someone in London working in front office finance what would people be happy with exactly?

        550? Or a lot more?
        Then they are stupid if they are doing that. 90% of something is better than 100% of nothing. Besides, once you've lost 2 or 3 months at even a couple of hundred quid a day, you'll never make that up.
        I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!

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          #14
          Same old question...

          You hold out for the rate that you/the agent/client is happy with.

          Be careful not to leave yourself on the bench for the sake of a few grand a year, that is just STUPID.
          Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.

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            #15
            Take what you can get, when you can get it........

            There's plenty other out there that will do the job cheaper...
            Who has time? Who has time? But then if we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

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              #16
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              There certainly seem to be
              Yeh, but do you want a Jedi to do the job or some tatty old dog?

              You pays yer money ...............

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                #17
                I was on £420 a day here in frozen North which seems fukin A1 now - got a call for a gig in Edinburgh today, was an old-style agency call, I wasn't a 100% match but they tried to shoehorn me in, ultimately I rejected it, 270 a day....

                IdM job, I'm Sun IdM, job was Novell IdM....

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                  #18
                  will work for beer. hic
                  Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                    will winge for beer. hic
                    FTFY

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by zeitghost
                      £7.50/hr.
                      My first ever contract, back in 1986 I think it was, was for GBP5.50 an hour. No interview, just turn up at midnight tomorrow, introduce yourself to the security guard and off you go.
                      Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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