How do you earn your Contractors Badge?

[StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff]

being benched for 6+ months. De rigueur for that contracting badge of yours.

qh

Only if you suck

[blacjac]

3. taking a holiday and not worrying about it at all in regards to money being lost.

Just got to that one
An initial 3 month contract that got extended by 1 month, then 1 month, then 1 month, then 3 months, then 2 months then 6 months means I have worked a year solid without a day off.

Bloody knackered I am so when the 6 month hit my first email after accepting was to tell them I'm not working the last week in August .

[alreadypacked]

Deciding you want to spend the winter in warmer climes, then finding a clients who will pay you (London rates) to work from your new sunnier home.

[minestrone]

Over the ten years of contracting I must have crapped my way to a pretty decent car by now.