Oh Dear: it's finally happening - they're trying to seduce me to the dark side

[milanbenes]

well theyre offering me the role

decisions decisions

Milan.

[AtW]

"milanbenes is no longer a permie"

How ironic.

[milanbenes]

Hi Alexey

I havent been perm for 14 years


Hows business

What about me friends and family

Milan.

[Bwana]

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[milanbenes]

Hi Bwana

this is the problem theres a lot of life yet in my area of dot net contracting

and what to do

stay contracting and lower the utilisation to something like 9 months per year

or

become permy working 20 minutes from home on a great deal


what to do thats the question

for now i will wait for the offer on paper

Milan.

[norrahe]

Did they throw in a a fancy new bbq and someone to make your tea? that may have swung it for me

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Hi Bwana

this is the problem theres a lot of life yet in my area of dot net contracting

and what to do

stay contracting and lower the utilisation to something like 9 months per year

or

become permy working 20 minutes from home on a great deal


what to do thats the question

for now i will wait for the offer on paper

Milan.

I have ventured into a non-technical role for the last 11 months.... I am now staying on for another 6 months in a technical role. I am not so sure I ever want to go non-technical in the future though it's nice to have it on your CV. I find when you have a technical challenge it makes your role a lot more interesting than man management, requirements gathering, modelling and endless phone calls/meetings. When you deal with a computer life is easy..... Then again that's just me.

[BlasterBates]

I´m close behind...imminent paper offer.....perm!!

[bobspud]

It depends if .Net is a 10 or 100 contracts a week kind of skillset.

I find that Solutions Architecture/ Enterprise Architecture is difficult at best and competition is really hard compared to my engineering days. At the moment I might see 10 roles a week with 2 or 3 of them being what I want and I may get 1 of that orignal 10 to an interview stage if I am lucky.

So when roles get released you need to be able to get your CV changed and into the agent and inside the hour. Much longer than that then you are probably wasting your time applying because its not that hard to find 3 good enough bodies to put forward and finding the best guy for the job is too much effort for most of the battery hen agents that CV sift by word searching..

This makes it hard to relax when you are in sales mode and my wife often complains that I spend too much time on jobserve and my breaks hardly ever seem like a time to relax. I know many guys like the idea of living twelve months on six months money, however I don't think you could fund many decent hobbies (thinking gliding or motor-racing/track days) skimping like a permie for most of the year. I see no point living on Lidel or Aldi food all year.

You might be better off continuing as you are but taking 2 week breaks in every 3 month contract...

[milanbenes]

Hi Bob,

thanks for the feedback

yes the market in my area of .Net is good, and the same goes for .Net Architects, the market looks very strong contract and perm.

So what to do that's the question.

Milan.