Take home pay

[Xenophon]

AFF

The standard on there is poor. Better than CL sure, but still poor.

[2BIT]

I'm not really better off now, went perm in May but given notice yesterday along with everyone else.

One thing in my favour, at least I was well prepared to deal with the situation which is more than can be said for every other poor sod around me.

employers NI or perhaps the tax calc is wrong, are you sure you are not on a cumulaive tax code?

[2BIT]

Hi guys,

Thanks for all your advice....

Since this is my first time conrecting I realised it was the Employers NI that was the missing money, it wasnt explained to me at the time but now I know for the future.

As far as £13.30ph being a tulip rate, I just came from a £9.50ph job so its quite a step up for me lol.

I have no qualifications AT ALL the only thing I have is some experience doing desktop support for BT on my CV which allows me to apply for other desktop support and admin roles.

Currently I am doing a 6 month contract in a manufacturing firm and at best the only technical thing i am really doing is SQL DB changes and the odd network patching, the rest of the work is slapping people for doing something wrong / restoring files from backups and basic admin paper work......so the rate I am on is good for me. (All the other lads i used to work with at BT before we were made redundant are on £11ph, one is happy on £9)

As far as training goes and trying to budget, I dont plan on doing this long term.... The idea 5 year ago was to get a foot into BT and get them to invest in us but it just never happened and then I got thrown out on my arse.

So the plan now is to contract till i find a perm job, however perm jobs around here are around the £10ph mark, but they do include holiday pay sick pay and what not.... and if I can get somewhere that will invest in me I can move forward do my training there and move up in the world and then I can drive my merc and smoke cubans and be a prick in general

Again thanks for all your help and I think I will be sticking around these forums just to see how the other half live

I think fair play to you for going the contracting route, doesn't matter if your rate is low to start off and if you are looking to go back to perm it's probably good that your not getting mega bucks as you'll be disappointed when you go back to permiedom, if you not very busy it may be worth skilling up on DBA/Network stuff as it will be more lucrative in the long run, perm or contract