Demand for contractors outside London to work in London

[kevpuk]

I'm not a Londoner and I do the Mon-Fri thing and go home on weekends and I've always got agents ringing me about contracts in London for Test Automation, I guess it depends on just how good you are as to whether or not you'll be considered.

This ^^

I live in Bournemouth, and do the Mon-Fri-stay-away thing......works OK for me. Actually, current rate is not vastly different to previous gig, which was in Southampton and thus so much more commutable....
Agents have never been bothered about my base; some have asked how I feel about commuting etc., but never been an issue.

[Gym beast]

And here above is why true cutting edge projects like advanced jet engine software and eurofighter avionics are based in the north! BTW just being testing my new software out by bombing the feck out of Canary Wharf !

They're based in wilds because the financial hubs of London, near surrounds, Leeds/Edinburgh have taken the best and brightest, you're paid to churn out crap, and get away with it because of DV clearance.


Oh, and I've got six little letters for you....


IED LOL

[Unix]

Non-Londoners tend to be of inferior character and talent to Londoners - after all only the best are successful in London, since they have to compete with the best from around the world.
Any fool can toodle along in some public-sector or provincial company contract outside the SE, only the best can thrive in the cauldron that is London.
That's why non-Londoners aren't usually considered for roles in London.

HTH.

So you believe a persons intellect and talent is a result of which city they are born/live? Intresting to see how an idiot thinks.

[Gym beast]

So you believe a persons intellect and talent is a result of which city they are born/live? Intresting to see how an idiot thinks.

As an ex-Londoner I largely agree with his underlying point, the fact is that many of the highest talents of the north and west of England have made their way to London to thrive.


That said, for whatever reverse entropy my own most lucrative contracts have been west of London.


I may move back but I love living outside it but in spitting distance of a tube line terminus. It's become a sh1thole in the last 20-30 years

[Unix]

As an ex-Londoner I largely agree with his underlying point, the fact is that many of the highest talents of the north and west of England have made their way to London to thrive.


That said, for whatever reverse entropy my own most lucrative contracts have been west of London.


I may move back but I love living outside it but in spitting distance of a tube line terminus. It's become a sh1thole in the last 20-30 years

What if someone believes working 12 hour days under high pressure with ultra high living costs in a high crime, over populated city, full off immigrants is not attractive. I enjoy visiting London, but to work/live there would be my personal hell.

[Gym beast]

What if someone believes working 12 hour days under high pressure with ultra high living costs in a high crime, over populated city, full off immigrants is not attractive. I enjoy visiting London, but to work/live there would be my personal hell.

Then that person should do what I do. Live + work just outside it, and dive in/out on the weekends.

[NickFitz]

What if someone believes working 12 hour days under high pressure with ultra high living costs in a high crime, over populated city, full off immigrants is not attractive. I enjoy visiting London, but to work/live there would be my personal hell.

Indeed. There seems to be this misconception that because somebody successfully subjects themselves to a high-pressure environment in return for a lot of money, they must be particularly talented. All it really means is that they are very good at herd behaviour.

If they had a spark of initiative or independence of thought, they'd find a way to succeed without having to put up with that crap; and furthermore, they would probably define "success" in terms that weren't much more beneficial to those above them in the hierarchy of enslavement to which they have willingly bound themselves.

[SpontaneousOrder]

of enslavement to which they have willingly bound themselves.

Does not compute.

[NickFitz]

Does not compute.

Sheltered life?

Sample Consensual "Slavery" Contract

[Bunk]

Sheltered life?

Sample Consensual "Slavery" Contract

I don't think that would pass an IR35 review