This figures.
Permy role: we want you to be a "company" person, far more than doing the job.
Contractor: we just want you to get the job done.
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Oh no, I will have to see my rolex!*
* don't own one, just a garmin 255, Victorinox one for posh meals out and an £80 mechanical one off of eBay that I am trying to get a yootoober to film repairing it. Cos reasons.
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Seeing the fashion for FTCs, I am probably approx 3-4 months from closing the ltd, but then what? Applied for permy roles but they are like pulling my own teeth.
2 interviews and one of those bulltulip psychometric test (never done one before), then in final int they say this question around...Last edited by quackhandle; 10 September 2025, 14:11.
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FTC's for five and six month contracts, WTF? I don't recall seeing that before.
Fooking dead as a dead thing out there.
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There's an ex biker guy (local handyman, built my bbq) who lives opposite me who for years hung a pirate flag, poppy one in November but recently he has put up union flag and St George one. He's normally okay but a few months back he put up a 'Free Tommy Robinson Now' banner just down the road, so I...Last edited by quackhandle; 27 August 2025, 14:43.
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No, posting a gig on jobserve for a few days that you could do in your sleep, is outside, 6M fully remote, decent rate then it disappears.
qh...Last edited by quackhandle; 26 August 2025, 15:21.
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If I am facing direction of train, the tilting bit doesn't bother me, but if it is the 'wrong direction'...
I scarred myself with coach travel when I was 17 and went to Lloret de Mar to visit my sister, 24 hours on a coach, London to Catalunya, you do daft tulip when you are...
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I actually like train travel but I despise bus/coach travel so rail replacement buses is like doubling down on the tulipness.
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Arguing on the interwebs has to be THE biggest waste of time ever.
You are not going to change a person's opinion no matter how many times you post, resort to name calling, even if it is in CAPS or a fancy font.
So there.
On topic edit: tulipty...
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Small to moderate increase in roles in my skill sector but we are living in the FTC world at the moment.
Warchest dwindling, I don't have any unsecured debt but that may have to change if this tulipty market doesn't pick up.
'Once more unto the gig, dear freelancers,...
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Heading North next week on the train to visit mater & pater so I will find out and report back.
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