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Conscription Opportunities
With all that's going on in the world, all these wars, it seems increasingly likely that there will be conscription in the UK. Now, I'm too old for that, fortunately, but it does occur to me there may be an opportunity here. I'd say most people on this site are of conscription age and a fair percentage...
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I'm getting absolutely nothing on LinkedIn these days, not that I was getting much most of last year.
61 profile views in the last 90 days. Used to be in three figures!...Last edited by caminito; 20 February 2026, 11:32.
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Boom times for the consultancy I'm working with. Literally new starters every single day, sometimes multiple.
Mopping up the public sector work that contractors might otherwise have had.
Wind your clock back 20 year ago rates, but at least it's totally remote and outside...
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I've only used my own kit since the end of 2018. Do firms still dole out laptops to contractors?...
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30 January 2026
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