Do you ever see yourself as a good contractor?

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

That's a good question.

I've done 34 contracts / 4 perms. Three of these contracts turned to perm.

As a contractor I'm top notch. I know exactly what the client wants, can pre-empt it, deliver it and deliver additional value add because I've pre-empted what comes next. As a contractor I make other people look good and so for the money the client gets the kudos and you sit in the background.

On the flip side after a while that becomes grating and so realised I was actually better than the majority of clients I worked for, so now become the client. Irritatingly though, I'm still happy for others to take the kudos. Even mentioned this to by boss who I've worked with before bemoaning the number of times others jump on the bandwagon of successful projects pushing themselves to the front for a scrap of meat. I've come to think of myself as a butcher, without me everyone will become a vegetarian.

FTFY

[BoredBloke]

I left uni in 1991 and I've been contracting ever since. I consider myself to be a good contractor and judge this by the amount of time I'm out of work. I think i've only been between contracts for about 4 months in total out of the last 14 years.

[Bunk]

I left uni in 1991 and I've been contracting ever since. I consider myself to be a good contractor and judge this by the amount of time I'm out of work. I think i've only been between contracts for about 4 months in total out of the last 14 years.

4 months total? That doesn't sound like much fun. I don't do this so I can work more than a permie

[BoredBloke]

4 months total? That doesn't sound like much fun. I don't do this so I can work more than a permie

I said time out of contract. I take time off within contracts for holidays etc, but I mean 4 months where I've not had a contract in place.

[MarillionFan]

I left uni in 1991 and I've been contracting ever since. I consider myself to be a good contractor and judge this by the amount of time I'm out of work. I think i've only been between contracts for about 4 months in total out of the last 14 years.

You're not very good at maths though are you.

[speling bee]

You're not very good at maths though are you.

Oh the ironing.

[BoredBloke]

You're not very good at maths though are you.

And you are obviously not very good at English - care to point out where I said that I'd had 4 months off since I started contracting? I said in the past 14 years. The reason I picked 14 years is because before 2000 I had a really bad year and it was the year that forced me out of support into the VBA work I do now.