Boring gig driving me nuts

[Old Greg]

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[Scrag Meister]

My current role is dead boring, mainly a support role for a "soon" to be obsoleted suite of apps, I reckon I am doing a couple of hours per day, in between reading a C# book.

I was sent a spec yesterday for exactly my skillset AND the chance to cross train to C#. Was briefly tempted just to get the C#, until I saw the £55k perm price tag.

Reading the book is one thing, getting hand-on experience is the thing I need.

[Olly]

£55K is not bad to be paid to learn a new skill.
It's exactly what I'm looking at coming from £400 a day.
I've explained clearly to the company what I get as a contractor and my aim is to earn the same as perm within 3 to 5 years or I leave. Quite confident that if I can really work hard there and take very opportunity then we'd be talking £500 or £600 a day contracts on leaving or the internal raises I'm after.

Think I'll push hard to get £60 though to be honest.

P.S. I'm with you, I've read books up the yin yang but without experience it doesn't get me a gig and forget it all. Made the very conscious decision the only way is to go perm and kick up an almighty fuss if they don't give me the breaks I've said are mandatory in our interviews.

[Wodewick]

£55K is not bad to be paid to learn a new skill.
It's exactly what I'm looking at coming from £400 a day.
I've explained clearly to the company what I get as a contractor and my aim is to earn the same as perm within 3 to 5 years or I leave. Quite confident that if I can really work hard there and take very opportunity then we'd be talking £500 or £600 a day contracts on leaving or the internal raises I'm after.

Think I'll push hard to get £60 though to be honest.

Freudian slip? or self-depreciating honesty?

[alreadypacked]

My current role is dead boring, mainly a support role for a "soon" to be obsoleted suite of apps, I reckon I am doing a couple of hours per day, in between reading a C# book.

I was sent a spec yesterday for exactly my skillset AND the chance to cross train to C#. Was briefly tempted just to get the C#, until I saw the £55k perm price tag.

Reading the book is one thing, getting hand-on experience is the thing I need.

Why not start writing a tool/app for the soon to be obsoleted suite of apps in C#. For example a reporting app or data migration or is there something the current suite of apps does not do that the users would like. Set it up as a project write your own specs do a prototype, is there anyone else in the team that might help?

Thats how I got into my current niche, writing my own tools.
It will also help you when you look for a new role.

[Platypus]

I spend my days batting the ball over the net to get nothing back

Oh bliss! Sounds perfect!


Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I invoiced you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.

[suityou01]

Oh bliss! Sounds perfect!


Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I invoiced you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.

It would be if I didn't keep getting shouted at for no progress. That I could handle.

[Platypus]

It would be if I didn't keep getting shouted at for no progress.

That's a fair point, that'd piss me off too.

[DimPrawn]

This thread is about IT contracting.

[JoJoGabor]

Im in same boat, moved from Investment banking client to defence client but for an extra £100 a day, so very lucrative. Nobody can tell me what the project should deliver, so I make it up myself. Must do an average of 4 hours a day, rest is just wasted chitchat. I reckon I can do 6 months max before my brain turns to mush and I get tired of speaking to people who dont really know what they are doing on a project that is so mixed-up it doesnt know what the objective is.