Strike Rate

[psychocandy]

Like the joke about the contractor who dies and is standing at the pearly gates and says to St Peter but I'm only 40 its too early. Not according to your timesheets says St Peter.

[VectraMan]

I managed a full year of working days once, not including Christmas week or Bank Holidays, so I think that's 244.

I was knackered. But I did get a big increase in rate about November and I'm sure the fact that I was there and putting their needs first was a factor. Since then I always made sure I had a week at least between 6-month renewals.

[mudskipper]

200 for client A, and around 10 for client B. Would prefer to do a bit less...

[d000hg]

That's 8 hour days ... Billed a lot more than that year before last ... ... Something north of 390 days ...

A long day is still one day.

That's pretty ******* sad, really.

If I wanted to work all the time, I'd be a permie.

Working all year with no holiday isn't very permie. Neither is earning enough to take a whole year off.

[SimonMac]

A long day is still one day.

I hate to think of all the unbilled hours, after 9 months they couldn't afford to give me a rate bump so told me to start charing the overtime, I think they now regret it!

Working all year with no holiday isn't very permie. Neither is earning enough to take a whole year off.

I run my books so that I need to bill for 8 months in any 12, this would have been 15 months all told when it ends with almost no expenses so although its not quite 12 months off its gonna be close if I want it to be

[VectraMan]

Working all year with no holiday isn't very permie. Neither is earning enough to take a whole year off.

WHS. I take a lot more time off now I'm a permie. I have four whole weeks every year to waste.

As a contractor, it's hard to escape the feeling you're losing money by not being at a job you could be. As a permie, it makes no difference.

[TheFaQQer]

Working all year with no holiday isn't very permie.

My last permie job I regularly took the bank holidays and nothing else because it was neded.

Neither is earning enough to take a whole year off.

I missed that invisible bit in the original post that explained that the OP had saved enough to take a year off. Silly me.

[d000hg]

I missed that invisible bit in the original post that explained that the OP had saved enough to take a year off. Silly me.

I missed the invisible bit in your last post that said you weren't currently sucking off a horse so I guess that's not the case either.

It's called common sense, or having two braincells to rub toge.... oh, silly me.

[TheFaQQer]

I missed the invisible bit in your last post that said you weren't currently sucking off a horse so I guess that's not the case either.

It's called common sense, or having two braincells to rub toge.... oh, silly me.

Are you so intimate with the OP that you know their income and expenditure for the year?

[BrilloPad]

If being a contractor makes one want to work all the time(it never did for me) then I am pleased I have gone permie.

15 days sick so far this year and and 15 half days sick.