Contractors learning board

[Francko]

A is for away from home most of your life

B is for bed&breakfast, the cheapest, the most squallid you can afford

C is for cut, of your rate because indians are cheaper

D is for demotivation, as they won't give you jobs with authority, you are paid to do the most boring jobs permies don't want to do it

E is for end of the contract, it's always near

F is for finances, your accountants make sure that for a large fee they can rip off yours

G is for gullible, when they tell you that your contract will be certainly renewed the next term

H is for haunted, haunted by the next subject

I is for IR35, well, whatelse to say....

[wc2]

R is for retired (20 years before the permies)

[TheMonkey]

S is for strip clubs - the favoured hang outs of contractors and truck drivers

[Francko]

R is for retired (20 years before the permies)

D is for dream on

P is for pub lunch, that's what permies do while contractors do the work

WW is for working weekends, get used to them

[cojak]

S is for sunning yourself in the garden using your wireless connection as you work from home.

E is for expenses paid by the client.

IR35 is for losers...

W is for "What kind of contractor have you ever been Francko?"

C is for a Crap one by the sounds of it...

[Francko]

S is for sunning yourself in the garden using your wireless connection as you work from home.

Oh well, who doesn't have a wireless connection?

E is for expenses paid by the client.

Hope you are joking on that.

IR35 is for losers...

Guess somebody must have lost then.

W is for "What kind of contractor have you ever been Francko?"

C is for a Crap one by the sounds of it...

If you must be considered permie because your job is temporarily permanent then yes. So be it. However, I am open to any choice, I have no prejudice. And I want to change perhaps in 1-2 years, perhaps going back to contracting. What is stopping me though is that the rates are rather low and would not even balance my current permie salary. But then again, it all depends on your environment and some people have good contracts, some bad contracts, good permie and bad permie jobs. What I find rather silly are all those idiotic generalisation that one world is better than the other. Simply isn't. We are all in the hands of greedy stockholders and politicians. And can't help laughing at the insecurity of people that believe "contractors do it better". If you need to think that to reassure your ego, go on but do not expect to be taken serious by people who want to make a reasoned choice about contracting.

[Francko]

and forgot...

P is for pension, hope you have saved enough as you won't have any

[Fungus]

D is for dream on

P is for pub lunch, that's what permies do while contractors do the work

WW is for working weekends, get used to them

W is for regularly working till late without pay as a permie, unless you call a 'free' curry pay.

P is for pub lunch to celebrate the product release, and contractors are invited along and told to charge normal hours.

[cojak]

Hope you are joking on that.

Why should I joke? I'm not picking up the tab for flights and hotels to Iceland, Switzerland, Dublin...

[cojak]

Oh and my penson is looking very healthy - thanks for asking...