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[fatJock]

I use 25% uplift when inside and offer a reduced outside rate - engagers choice.

[fatJock]

Wrong on all counts....

[fatJock]

Infra PM here, done many a DC relocation that would have been carnage left to Techs....

[fatJock]

If you've been benched for a couple of years like you said your SC has long lapsed....

[fatJock]

Drip feeding info then - so of the time out, 12 months was through choice? That's very different to being benched for 17 months which your initial comment implied....

[fatJock]

I was out for a month during Covid so you being out for 17 is definitely a you and your skills problem - namely that they weren't in demand for that period.

I'm 52 so suspect ageism will kick in at some point but I'd day that 80% of my work in the last eight years has come from my wider...

[fatJock]

Snap - I can't imagine not having had work for three years yet still waiting for something to happen. If it wasn't happening after 3, 6 or 12 months I'd accept that it's me, my skills or my priorities that are the problem.

If you can afford it - fair enough but that money being burnt on...

[fatJock]

It's the state of your market and the permanent low ball offers from off shore suppliers. Not suggesting anyone takes such a role but 400 a day inside is better than zero income at all .... which is kind of my point....

[fatJock]

I operate inside and outside depending on the gig - my company has the funds to meet it's obligations from 8 years of such mixed trading. Having zero income on principle is a larger problem given you can always loan in money to your company as a director. As for expenses - you figure out what you'd...

[fatJock]

Personally don't understand this logic around people being so anti IR35. Sure ... I get it, you want an outside role but income is income. I know some contractors who might focus on the £50 a day less than outside while ignoring the fact that they're not earning at all.

You're in a different...

[fatJock]

I mean this in the kindest way possible ... you seem to change your tune as to whether you want to work or retire as much as the weather....

[fatJock]

Friends who are Perm are often questioning the lack of security as a contractor yet trundle on blindly oblivious to the fact that they're just a number and very easy to make redundant. Personally I find there's more security in contracting - at least you're more in control.