(Very Tentative) First Boom

[northernladuk]

I do hope it works out for you but don't fall in to the trap of getting excited about verbal confirmations. Until the paperwork is signed and you are sitting at your desk on the first day you technically have nothing. If you get too excited about roles at this point you are going to be incredibly unhappy when it evaporates. It does happen a lot and can happen right up to the point you are standing in reception on the first day. Stay focussed and realistic.

Assume you haven't got it and keep applying for roles until you are sitting at the clients desk.

Everything crossed that this one does work out ok and you can come collect all your bananas soon.

[d000hg]

Yeah Suity will be trying to offload a pile of them in a day or so, plenty to go round.

[Mich the Tester]

Tentative

[barrydidit]

(I'll leave the Champagne in the fridge)

Too right, you're a contractor now. Send the butler.



Oh and, +1 to the other sensible stuff posted above

[bobspud]

4)Try not to get too up yourself about how you're a company director, nobody tells you what to do, blah blah blah.

I think freedom from client bulltulip is harder in some skill sets than others. I am paid to tell my clients stuff that they don't know and deliver results. I have not been managed for at least a decade. But that has nothing to do with me being a company director of my own firm. Its because I treat my contracts as business to business engagements and solve those sorts of problems rather than sitting in a chair waiting to be told what to do next.

I have not been managed in a decade it works for me

[NickFitz]

<- pending confirmation

[oscarose]

pending confirmation is positive - better than a blow out. however, proceed with caution - had a few roles pulled late doors - it's a rough game sometimes.

live and let live

[greenlake]

Have a VW full of bananas....