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Recent content by billybiro
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State of the Market
I get what you're saying, and of course, someone with a degree and the requisite real-world experience and curiosity to learn the application of the theory to practice may well be the best candidate. However, given the choice of a) someone with a degree but no curiosity/experience or b) someone...- billybiro
- Post #15,857
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Teams interview for local on-site contract
And even if the Teams call isn't recorded (video & audio), many enterprises have the necessary subscription with MS in place that all Teams calls will be transcribed with AI. Makes for a significantly easier time for your interviewers to search through that transcription (and those of all the...- billybiro
- Post #19
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Can I work remotely from Europe?
You're aware that I could be based in (say) Spain, connect to a Virtual Machine located in the UK and from there, access data that is also located in the UK and which might have to remain resident in the UK? All else being equal (i.e. assuming I actually have legitimate access to the data, am...- billybiro
- Post #17
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Can I work remotely from Europe?
Also, be sure to tell the client what colour socks you usually wear and what you have for breakfast every morning. You never know the minute you might fall afoul of the client's spurious preferences. More seriously, the client does not need to know any of that. If the contracts are legit...- billybiro
- Post #15
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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A really bad time for a career change
...deleted my LI... ...asked to show previous projects... ...I decline to show... ...kiddies asking me for my github... ...indulge timewasters... ...impossible to justify the investment... I think I'm starting to see the reason that you've struggled to pick up any work in the last 12 months. -
State of the Market
This is absolutely true, but as someone closer towards the end of my career than the start of it, I think another chief requirement I've learned more recently (at least in my position as a more senior consultative role) is to recognize when the things that are changing are actually nothing...- billybiro
- Post #9,555
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
Well, FWIW, in my own personal experience (and yes, I appreciate that's highly personal and subjective etc.), the vast majority of the best developers I've worked with throughout my career didn't have a degree (and many never even went to Uni). They were self-taught people who were passionate...- billybiro
- Post #9,553
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
Well, according to at least one of the comments on the post, he's based in York and is only looking for contracts in York. That reduces his pool quite considerably. :ohwell- billybiro
- Post #9,522
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Aldi now sells pets in England!
I'll bet his "bad back" has flared up because of this, too! :) -
Something going on in Parliament - RIP QE2
This is the same woman who spent £12m of taxpayer's money to bail out her paedophile son, so let's not get too dewy-eyed. -
Not using Ltd Company but don't want to Close it...How to reduce costs..?
Because you tend not to get the best advice from asking the very people you're seeking to reduce your spending with.- billybiro
- Post #16
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Client will ditch the agency but want to keep me - handcuff clause
So then you're effectively a disguised employee, or at least that's a huge pointer to being inside IR35 as, for one thing, there'd be no RoS with that.- billybiro
- Post #10
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Leaving a contract in first month
Put the shoe on the other foot for a moment. You've been working for the client for less than a month and your stated probationary contract term applies. Now imagine the client does some internal reshuffling and now realises they no longer need your services. What would the client do? Do...- billybiro
- Post #5
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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leaving and permie taking over
Because for a lot of clients, if you give them an inch, they expect a mile. That said, and as others have said, there's good business sense in leaving on a positive note, but there's also a huge difference between a succinct professional handover and spoon-feeding your replacement. It's also...- billybiro
- Post #37
- Forum: Business / Contracts
