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Maybe I ve been disillusioned by working in finance but I am seeing LOTS of contracts in London for >550 for basic skills like SQL, VBA blah blah
I ve been contracting now for 18 months solid with not one day holiday and working some weekends as well
My peer group are doing the same - So holding a 12Month contract is really not that difficult
It's fair compo! You are selling your precious time. If you are 25 this is OK, you get some decent cash and can have a good time on it. If you are 35 and still on the tools, this is soul destroying. The good rates are compensation for working in an industry that is being screwed from the top down and the bottom up. By the way, i'm doing similar work to you, but i'm getting 800/day. I'm going to ask for 900/day next time I move. That's still not enough compo for my precious time spent working with jokers, pokers, chokers and cokers.
It's fair compo! You are selling your precious time. If you are 25 this is OK, you get some decent cash and can have a good time on it. If you are 35 and still on the tools, this is soul destroying. The good rates are compensation for working in an industry that is being screwed from the top down and the bottom up. By the way, i'm doing similar work to you, but i'm getting 800/day. I'm going to ask for 900/day next time I move. That's still not enough compo for my precious time spent working with jokers, pokers, chokers and cokersjokers, smokers and midnight tokers.
i'm getting 800/day. I'm going to ask for 900/day next time I move. That's still not enough compo for my precious time spent working with jokers, pokers, chokers and cokers.
Hmm. I suspect that translates as roughly £160 per day.
Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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