How has 2011 been ?

[BolshieBastard]

LOL!

So the consensus is everyone is on their best ever rate and have never been out of work in 2011.

Yeah, ok.

BTW, I had 6 weeks between contracts from 01.01.11 to date. just finished a contract today that paid my 2nd best rate but I've had that rate for the last 15 months all told.

2012 is going to be gloomy despite what people may want to portray. There is a recession or 'dip' as the Gov would like to call it forecast for 2012.

[AtW]

So the consensus is everyone is on their best ever rate and have never been out of work in 2011.

Yes, unless you are a complete and utter loser.

HTH

[MarillionFan]

Yes, unless you are a complete and utter loser.

HTH

Like Bolshie.

[Mr.Whippy]

So the consensus is everyone is on their best ever rate and have never been out of work in 2011.

2011 been great for me, 254 days billed so far and still 2 weeks to go

[mudskipper]

Comme ci, comme ça.

[Fred Bloggs]

Jan to Aug

Bad things - working in Surrey and commuting home to NW Monday to Friday.
Good things - very interesting work on best ever rate, working with good people on 2x previous best rate.

Aug to Dec (and on into 2012)

Good things - local gig so home each night.
Bad things - back down to 50% of previous rate for an extremely high workload, bad tempered permie management, stressful due to volume of work on a pretty big project (>£1bn) that's bady under resourced but crippled by low budgetted man hours, 23 miles office to home can take upto 90 minutes to get home and never less than 70 mins thanks to volume of traffic (I thought there was recession on FFS?). Recent expected offer to relocate to Perth (in Australia) on ~AUD 1600 per day never materialised.

Mustn't grumble.

All in all, sorely tempted to look for another role darn sarf if I can get another good one in 2012.

[bless 'em all]

Work

Jan to Mid-November: South coast gig kept me going. Client co found a permie to sit at my desk so o.u.t I went.

Mid-November to now: New gig secured within two days but waiting for SC clearance to be transferred.

[escapeUK]

2011 good year, worked all the time (probably too much really). Reasonable rate.
2012 better year, another 6-12 months at a third higher rate and new exciting opportunities on the horizon.

[lilelvis2000]

pretty crap really
Major client had a management change and new management are very stingy and not technically with it.
From Jan-july there was nothing but the maintenece money coming through.
Got tired of waiting so now hooked up with three other businesses to outsource the work to me. So far done three websites and a bespoke application.
Looking into setting up something in south-asia with some old Uni. pals.
Things were looking up for the new year, then the landlord asked us in a very firm way to leave premises.
Overall its been crap.

[Doggy Styles]

I'm sorry to hear the less happy stories on here. I sincerely hope you have better luck in 2012.