Poll - How confident do you feel about contracting/work in the next 12 months?

[russell]

Just helping out, I think it's good to offer friendly advice. What is a sockie?

[MaryPoppins]

Get bent

Use your own bloody insults will you!

[scooterscot]

I've got too much work. Just started on an 8 month project for clientco but contract runs out at end of June. So expecting an extension on that with some luck.

My other concurrent contract is doing my head in so I'm trying to off load that.

But as you never really know, I'm only confident, not super confident.

WHS - contract in Germany (until next April), contract in Norway and one in London. Bidding for another in middle England. Was thinking about employing a chap I met on linkedin, he lives in India and seems to know what he's doing.

super confident.

[Churchill]

I'm confident I'll have work. Just not sure it's going to be near home, again.

[SimonMac]

I'm confident I'll have work. Just not sure it's going to be near home, again.

I am thinking the same, the jobs seem to be there, the rates lower and the distance further away but they are still there.

[Clippy]

Whose sockie are you then?

One of the usual cretins™ suspects, no doubt.

[milanbenes]

i can say, the market is hot hot hot

Milan.

[ThomasSoerensen]

I agree with Milan. Caliente!!!!

[Ruprect]

The market for personal trainers is growing quite strongly in NL, partly because there are plenty of fat rich people, but partly because some top sportspeople are hiring personal trainers with their olympic grants; I've been giving some training to one of the Dutch national ladies rugby sevens squad who's got a grant from the national olympic committee to prepare for 2016 olympics. Obviously, you need contacts to get that sort of work.

It's one of those jobs that looks very easy, but isn't; the best qualifications require quite a lot of learning (anatomy, physiology, training theory, advanced first aid, biomechanics, business skills etc etc) and both written and practical exams are pretty tough. You can get work without qualifying, but the right qualifications get you into professional networks which help you in getting customers and positioning yourself at the top end of the market where you can bill between 55 and 75 euros per hour, and occasionally much more if you break into the celebrity market.

At the lower end of the market, poncing around in a franchise gym wearing a pink shirt that says 'personal trainer' and listening to Wilmslow whingeing about his latest injury, you'll never make much more than 20 euros per hour, and if you're on the payroll of the gym it's basically a McJob paying minimum wage + about 20%.

Managed the first sentence, then fell asleep

[Ruprect]

Just helping out, I think it's good to offer friendly advice. What is a sockie?

It's something you put on the end of your leggie