I fancy taking the summer off

[bobspud]

I am in the opposite place to you right now in that this is the first time in almost a decade that I have been happy in a role. I am not drinking to excess I am behaving myself and I have no need to take anyone to one side to explain the facts of life. (normally half my team would be entered as a project risk by now for being crap)

What I am saying is you have been very lucky till now and I am afraid to say probably a little pampered. Contractors don't get easy work, thats what permies get paid for. Suck it up and call it basic training for dealing with twunts after that a life working with Accenture, Deloitte and Crap G awaits

[psychocandy]

Milk it mun.....

WFH 2/3 days a week as you say and do **** all. Sit in the garden or whatever. Do some work on the days you're in.

Wait till they get rid of you anyway....


But, on a serious note, don't let it screw your head. Not worth it. If its that bad, chuck it. One of the signs of depression (real one that is) is lack of motivation....

I bunged a contract years ago. Nice little earner, close to home, but it was boring, they manager was a right bellend and I was just having a bad time.
Glad I did it though because I'd have just got worse and worse. As it was, took me a while to get sorted again.

[EternalOptimist]

The whole summer ? the whole entire summer?
dont blink.

god forsaken hell-hole of a so-called country.

[Bacchus]

I've really been struggling to be motivated at the role I started earlier this year. One of the BA's is a tit, the project is not really being run that well, and it will get canned; I just don't really want to be there to be honest.

But the rate is magic, they've said, regardless, I will be there until September at least and I am allowed to work from home 2/3 days a week.

But I can't shift the abject laziness I get when in work, it's as though I am willing them to let me go. I have never, ever had this before, and am wondering should I simply quit and avoid being let go (never happened to me before), spend the summer on the bench, or milk it until they do let me go, for I can't believe my performance will not have been noted, or rather the lack of it.

I've started drinking too, which can't be a good sign.

Anyone else had this in a role? I feel depressed there...

There is absolutely no point in being a contractor if you stay somewhere that makes you feel that way. That is definitely for those of the permie mind set

Mind you I might be biased because I have just negotiated an extension from September with a six week gap from the middle of July - still under contract, no projects starting, big "moo" tick and work lined up in a nice warm office when it starts getting (even) colder again ... this is what being a contractor is about for me - whoop whoop!

[b0redom]

Am in the same position TBH. This is the 1st time I've ever seriously considered leaving a contract.
Got 8 weeks left on the current extension and I'm STILL considering leaving early.

[OwlHoot]

I don't know what it is, but that's a good start.

I'll not be a fermier, as such, for a good few years, as the idea is to be mortgage free, with a small income from a couple or three flats. We're going to be mortgage free come September, but still need the income to buy a few flats, so that's going to take a little while. Until then, we'll be smallholders, selling to local restaurants and people I think, mainly ducks, but Turkeys in season (very, very, very easy money are the turkey...).

You could try cheering yourself up by singing as you wander round the office thinking of that farm you plan buying.

FARMER'S BOY

The sun had set beyond yon hill, across yon dreary moor
When weary and lame, a boy there came, up to the farmer's door

Can you tell me if any there be who will give me employ

To plough and sow, to reap and mow and be a farmer's boy,
And be a farmer's boy

My father's dead, my mother's left with her five children small
And what is worse for my mother still, I'm the eldest of them all

Though little I be, I fear no work, if you'll give me employ

To plough and sow, to reap and mow and be a farmer's boy
And be a farmer's boy

And if you will not me employ, one favour I've to ask
Pray shelter me till break of day from this cold winter's blast

At break of day, I'll trudge away elsewhere to seek employ

To plough and sow, to reap and mow and be a farmer's boy
And be a farmer's boy

The farmer said, 'I'll try the lad, no further let him seek'
'Oh, yes, dear father,' the daughter cried, as the tears ran down her cheek

For them that'll work, it's hard to want and wander for employ

To plough and sow, to reap and mow and be a farmer's boy
And be a farmer's boy

At length the boy became a man, the good old farmer died
He left the lad the farm he had, and the daughter for his bride

And now the boy a farmer is and he smiles and thinks with joy

On the lucky day, he came that way to be a farmer's boy
To be a farmer's boy

To plough and sow, to reap and mow and be a farmer's boy
And be a farmer's boy

[billybiro]

This is the way I am leaning...

Surely the answer here is to have the best of both worlds by invoking your right of substitution?

You put an "underling" in to do the dirty work for you, getting to keep some of that "magic" rate that you're getting, whilst also sitting on your backside enjoying the fantastic British Summer!

Worst that can happen is the client doesn't agree to your replacement, but if you're thinking of jacking it all in anyway, I don't see that there's anything to lose!

[DimPrawn]

Surely the answer here is to have the best of both worlds by invoking your right of substitution?

You put an "underling" in to do the dirty work for you, getting to keep some of that "magic" rate that you're getting, whilst also sitting on your backside enjoying the fantastic British Summer!

Worst that can happen is the client doesn't agree to your replacement, but if you're thinking of jacking it all in anyway, I don't see that there's anything to lose!

Zend in za zooty!

[bobspud]

It is not good to hear contractors moaning about hard or crap contracts. it gives us bad reputations. We are paid more and have tax breaks on our side. The one thing that we should be able to achieve is finishing the job professionally. If you had a builder or lawyer and he didn't want to finish the work or complained about how crap the work was, he would get canned pretty fast. So why do we think its ok for us to do it?

My current client keeps making the assumption that contractors bugger off when it gets hard and you can see there is some animosity when they say it. For my part I can say I finish the jobs I start and I don't care how hard it is or how long it takes.

In my view if customers were not horrible to a certain extent and could hang on to their own staff or incapable of planning properly I would be out of a job.

[KentPhilip]

If you had a builder or lawyer and he didn't want to finish the work or complained about how crap the work was, he would get canned pretty fast. So why do we think its ok for us to do it?

I think you'll find that builders and lawyers frequently whinge about their clients and their work - just not in front of their clients.