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Recent content by ahardy66
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The future of IT contracting
it's obvious - become an outsourcing guru. And learn to speak Cantonese - they're cheaper there than India. -
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Start a tax awareness campaign
what are all these free hand-outs that chavs and pikeys get, and can I have some too? :cool1: -
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EU governments take fuel action
There's a massive massive advantage to buying our energy on the global market, because most of the time it's way cheaper than what we could produce ourselves, for instance electric cars charged up on the national grid. I don't have much sympathy with the people :tantrum: who get all irate... -
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whine whinge whinge
leaving the country sounds like a good idea, but you need to find somewhere where you won't be remotely bothered by anything going on, i.e. politics and tax will get you in any developed country, and poverty, coups and disasters will get you in the rest of the world. -
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Job market
The Java contract market in London seems to have gone crazy today. Spent 75% of the day on the phone to agents. But then, it might just be one job. :banana: -
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agent's cut
Just saw in another thread here that some agents (didn't say who) don't get any cut from their agency unless the agency is getting more than 14%. How many agencies work like this? An agent I knew (a one-man-band) had no such problems and said he would be happy with 10% but could often get...- ahardy66
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sickness and disability insurance
apart from becoming terminally ill, there's the possibility of becoming permanently disabled. I called the citizens advice bureau to find out what the state provides in the latter situation and assuming that you either lose your programming abilities or you get your mouse permanently...- ahardy66
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- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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sickness and disability insurance
Yes, that problem had occurred to me. My initial reaction was to do a survey of all the mentally-disabled former contractors I could find and ask them whether their insurance paid out, but such a survey would probably be a little more problematic than this sort of survey here :(- ahardy66
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Agency will not permit dividend method of payment
er... axel man? Never heard of any agency with those letters - but it *is* late. At least they weren't on jobserve's agency listings.- ahardy66
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- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Forum Changes
It would be an improvement if you could use the template for showing messages which I can see right now as I type (in the reply to topic / thread window). This layout uses far less space than the primary view and it is just as readable, if not more so, without needing so much scrolling. -
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sickness and disability insurance
I just want to find out what percentage of people have sickness and disability insurance. Please vote! I'm also interested to know how much a decent policy costs and what in fact a decent policy should pay out for a claim. For instance, I'm considering strongly getting a policy that would pay...- ahardy66
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