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[SussexSeagull]

IR35 coming in was before my time but some contractors were a bit out there with their tax affairs. I suspect that was the main reason it came in....

[SussexSeagull]

If they haven't got anything going they can't really help you out.

[SussexSeagull]

Took me three years from finishing my HND to getting a 'proper' IT job between 95 and 98 and even then it was done through an IJA at the company I was working at.

[SussexSeagull]

This is the equivalent conversation to Coal Miners meeting down the social club and discussing what went wrong after all the pits had closed sometime in the late 80s/early 90s.

[SussexSeagull]

I think there are so many factors you could probably write a book on ranging from macro economics that effect everyone through to changes to IR35 that only really hit us via several things in the middle....

[SussexSeagull]

Until this country has a conversation about how we pay for an ageing population and realise that the quality of public services they get is heavily related to the amount often they pay then the situation won't improve.

When Theresa May came up with a solution to social care funding, which...

[SussexSeagull]

Brings back memories of working on projects where you turn up on day one then leave several months later and the project hasn't actually advanced at all that you can tell. Or my last but one contract where they started getting rid of Test Contractors despite the fact it was several years late and most...

[SussexSeagull]

As a fellow non graduate (peaked at HND level) I was going to say that is nonsense by the agent and as never happened to me, although it is entirely possible it has and UI never found out about it....

[SussexSeagull]

I imagine the bank of mum and dad or otherwise being left money is probably a factor in a lot of cases....