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[Yuri F]

I'm not a control freak but retirement normally should be a planned process, both: financially (asset amounts, liquidity structure/risks, perhaps worth considering a will, insurances and so on..) and psychologically, if not then transition often tends to be an unpleasant process. I mean nothing is perfect...

[Yuri F]

I was also considering keeping myself busy in some physical work to help reduce exposure to potential IT-related occupational health hazards (e.g. sitting in a chair most of the day), like postman or something, but being introvert might not enjoy the idea communicating with strange and not always friendly...

[Yuri F]

Just discovered LinkedIn jobs since it was previously mentioned in this thread,
I mean I was on LI for years but in rather passive state (opened/published profile with updates once a year)
probably got quarter of my materialized contracts from that profile too, but again - it was a passive...

[Yuri F]

Leaving aside the fact what 99% of this media content is scripted and designed mostly for popularity/clickbait/subs - If your target market is small (people-wise, not necessarily money-wise) offices then probably that could work (without going into chance details), but if you're aiming for larger corp...

[Yuri F]

Getting two calls per day on average, mostly irrelevant junk of course (really cheap rates, inside or perm despite clearly stating outside, completely distant location, wrong technology stack, etc.)
one or two per week out of those are the ones I've directly applied to or from the same agency...

[Yuri F]

In what sense? NI & CT had marginally small changes, therefore it's hardly worse on legal/taxation side in my segment (IT), even Outside/Inside tweaks do not affect me much.
Probably I can agree about part deterioration of getting revenue stream to feed Ltd (aka "State of the Market")...

[Yuri F]

if you mean only NI assuming all other allowances are exhausted then it's marginally higher.
£124/day is £15.5/h, net 13.8% employer-side NI is £13.62/h vs currently min £11.44/h
but yeah - this might create an impression like IT is falling down to level of level unskilled labor (although...

[Yuri F]

for small 2.5'' HDDs you just need two hands and pair of pliers or crimp tool.
fold in half and job is done (data-holding platter is broken/fractured to pieces).

3.5'' are harder to break (more metal), big nail in the one-third from center and hammer can do the job just fine to break...

[Yuri F]

Agree, it all depends (nothing is perfect after all), for clarity will expand a bit my case:
1) I'm losing on Flat VAT perhaps a £100 a year max, but simplicity of it compensates the need to trace all VAT components of invoices on spending (which is impossible in most cases since I'm buying most...

[Yuri F]

As long as you don't do something silly (e.g. paying something what has nothing to do with your business from company account) - it's straight forward with micro-entity and flat VAT (quarterly submission, just 4? lines to fill) + PAYE (monthly, mostly empty submissions) then CT once a year (balance...

[Yuri F]

And then this happens, I wonder why would someone complain they don't get pool of candidates with only 100% match?
In such environment (market depth) there are more prospects for candidates relying on strength in numbers (otherwise you can't compete with robo-applications, especially considering...