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The closest I ever got to perm was a week's work experience during school. I miss sorting the post. And enjoying a nice can of diet coke every lunchtime from the communal supply in the fridge, then finding out on the last day that it wasn't a communal supply, & someone was wondering where all their diet cokes had gone.
I miss the roast pork baguettes, and the huge variety of underutilised computers coupled with a job that was basically "sit around until something happens" leaving one plenty of time to tinker.
While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'
Having holidays and *ahem* sick days without giving a stuff and still getting paid
But even non-*ahem* sick days , i.e. real sick days, are worse now cos you have to be 10 times worse than when you were a perm AND you are losing £x00.
Lunchtime Doom and Quake was always good back in the day, running some dire 386 with no dedicated GPU (cos they barely existed then) with a window about an 8th of the screen in the middle to handle the graphics.
Fully expensed Christmas parties til 6a.m.
Developer conferences in Vegas followed by 2 weeks personal holiday at a mate's in NY, all flights at least business class, and paid for.
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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