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[Mich the Tester]

Maybe because that is all they know? If your grandfather and father were well educated and had a successful business career, you are going to expect at least as much out of life.

Hmm, no; quite a few of the people I was at school with prefer 'alternative' lifestyles and 'jobs'; art, setting up eco-farms, aid work, successive failed rock bands and so on. Or of course "managing" pater's estate.

[aussielong]

It's about time a website was created to render agents useless.

A site where clients post contract roles and contracts post CV's/profile/availability etc.

The system would match them up each day depending on the info. Small monthly charge for posting roles/CV's.

HairGel.com

LinkedIn is good enough. The only reason I ever go through an agent now is if they have approached me about the role. Mine the LinkedIn groups in your niche, and send a message to members with your details asking for work...I do it and it works. I got a very well paid gig in Asia like that.

Word of mouth is the best way though. I've got a bigger network in my niche than most agents working in that niche. I know people on projects all over the world. Keep bumping into them, or people who know them, on the circuit.

[aussielong]

Hmm, no; quite a few of the people I was at school with prefer 'alternative' lifestyles and 'jobs'; art, setting up eco-farms, aid work, successive failed rock bands and so on. Or of course "managing" pater's estate.

How are they funding their alternative lifestyles? Or are they poverty tourists?

[aussielong]

I know of some, but most keep it quiet; there's a bit of a 'reverse snobbery' thing in the UK so I can understand why.

Strange thing that inverse snobbery. Went to a wedding in the UK a while back and experienced it first hand. Strange thing. You don't get that down under.

[doodab]

Maybe because that is all they know? If your grandfather and father were well educated and had a successful business career, you are going to expect at least as much out of life.

Not if they did a decent job of parenting.

[oracleslave]

It's about time a website was created to render agents useless.

A site where clients post contract roles and contracts post CV's/profile/availability etc.

The system would match them up each day depending on the info. Small monthly charge for posting roles/CV's.

HairGel.com

You are a very trivial man™

[aussielong]

Not if they did a decent job of parenting.

What, during half term?

[Mich the Tester]

How are they funding their alternative lifestyles? Or are they poverty tourists?

Some scrape a living selling the odd painting or sculpture within their network, some live off partners or parents, but then you don't need much if you live in the east wing of your parents' country pad. Some are politicians, a few are aid workers who are paid a pittance in pounds but live in parts of Africa or Asia that are so cheap that if you've got hard currency then you're rich.

A few of us actually work in industry/business and pay our own way; I must be doing something wrong.

[Mich the Tester]

Strange thing that inverse snobbery. Went to a wedding in the UK a while back and experienced it first hand. Strange thing. You don't get that down under.

I think that in Aus there's a more meritocratic society where people feel that if you're doing well then good on you, regardless of background.

[DodgyAgent]

It's about time a website was created to render agents useless.

A site where clients post contract roles and contracts post CV's/profile/availability etc.

The system would match them up each day depending on the info. Small monthly charge for posting roles/CV's.

HairGel.com

Like a true propeller head you think that everything can be done through a computer. The technology is already there and if you think that placing a contractor is a simple matter of matching up information on a computer without any sort of human interaction then you really need to get out more.