What is the best & worst gig you ever had?

[Ravello]

Best: Current one, local, decent rate, reasonably interesting projects, happy to let me get on with it... Second stint here, returned after an 18 month break at:

Worst: Government - nuff said.

[stillooking]

worst: home office & some ctrl govt gigs

best: RollsRoyce/Bentley - very low rates but generally a laugh & BT, Ldn in dot.com days

[Sysman]

Best job - stand in system manager while bringing some permies up to speed. Decent rate, bags of overtime and I stayed in an excellent, friendly hotel which didn't break the bank.

Worst job - a place where they wouldn't give contractors their own user accounts, nobody knew where systems were when the hardware guys called, overtime was banned because previous guys had taken the pee. The final straw was being bollocked for not solving a problem which was hidden in a problem tracking queue that I didn't have access to.

[alreadypacked]

Best role: current role, get to travel to India for the winter.

Worst role: Was sent to client site to intergrate an application written in C++ on UNIX. Client site was Windows, PM suggested: "just re-write the application, we have 6 weeks" I tried to explain the application required a lot of UNIX functions like Sendmail etc. "Just re-write them too"

[shaunbhoy]

Best one - had to be working in southern Poland for a Mobile operator there. Good daily rate and could usually book at least 6 days a week. Did not have to do much but oversee my local permie replacement who was mad keen to do everything anyway.

Worst one - no really bad ones, but worked for a few weeks for Siemens in Den Haag on a GSM-R project. Decent daily rate but mega boring as I spent the entire 6 weeks that I lasted doing sod all as I was waiting for all the customer specifications to be translated from Cloggie to English.

[Ruse]

Worst One:

Current one doing a DC migration for an IB, was told after 1 week in the pub by my manager that his boss had already given him the option of firing me beecause I wan't "agressive enough", nast bulltulip environemt where nobody shares info and everyone is always trying to get one over on the next person, luverly...

Best One:

3 years worth of renewals on good rate at a London branch of a Japanese bank, very laid back environment and very friendly and social.

[Doggy Styles]

Best One:

3 years worth of renewals on good rate at a London branch of a Japanese bank, very laid back environment and very friendly and social.

You are male then.

Unless by laid back you mean...

[Lockhouse]

They all blur into one. I'm only here for the money. I was only there for the money as well. And there, and there, and there....

[Doggy Styles]

They all blur into one. I'm only here for the money. I was only there for the money as well. And there, and there, and there....

Be careful with that. You don't want to be sitting at home at 60 thinking where the f*** did my life go?

[Lockhouse]

Be careful with that. You don't want to be sitting at home at 60 thinking where the f*** did my life go?

It's just a means to an end. Where else can I get £x00 per day for sitting at a desk not trying very hard? My life outside work is very nice but it has to be paid for somehow!