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.NET rate for working from home

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    #11
    Quote them a silly rate - say £550 and see what happens.
    "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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      #12
      DaveB is right. Act keen, but reluctant at that rate. I reckon they will see you to £400/day.

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        #13
        300 from home is good. Make sure the contract has travel expenses per mile in it as they'll want you to come in occasionally (things are never REALLY straightforward).
        Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

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          #14
          How about £300/day for every day worked at home, £500/day if you work onsite. Help focus their minds ands wallets if they insist you work in their office.

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            #15
            Originally posted by DimPrawn
            How about £300/day for every day worked at home, £500/day if you work onsite. Help focus their minds ands wallets if they insist you work in their office.
            Seeing these rates are making me quite ill. I'm a support monkey on £20 an hour. How hard is this .Net stuff ? Would certification in India get me the gig?

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              #16
              Yeah I know what you mean. There are a lot of crappy £100K .NET contracts out there. Makes me ill just thinking about it.

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                #17
                Originally posted by DimPrawn
                Yeah I know what you mean. There are a lot of crappy £100K .NET contracts out there. Makes me ill just thinking about it.
                Mr Prawn life just ain't fair.

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                  #18
                  Life is fair. Other bastards aren't. You've just got a to be a bastard - that is all. Oh and a .Net bastard, and when .Net is no longer fashionable, then jump ship and do something else new and cool.

                  I think dynamically typed scripting languages are going to make a comeback next (particularly Python).
                  Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by lORD lUCAN
                    Seeing these rates are making me quite ill. I'm a support monkey on £20 an hour. How hard is this .Net stuff ? Would certification in India get me the gig?
                    Tut Tut me Lord.

                    There has never been a relationship between how difficult a contract is and the renumeration, quite the inverse in fact.

                    Alas ...AJP , once the King of Mainframe Systems Programming has now degeenerated into a support monkey and ...oopps there goes the phone ...AJ Pruffock speaking how may I help you ...oh youve forgotten your password ... (cringes)

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by zeitghost
                      I'm holding out for the return of FORTRAN IV.
                      God. I can't stand that - even more than Cobol. I started out writing Fortran on bloody VAXen when I was 12
                      Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

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