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Recent content by cs#

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    What discount/rate would you offer for working from home?

    err... arent'you doing that now, come on admit it!
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    What discount/rate would you offer for working from home?

    That's me, working from home that'd be panacea, where are all these jobs I'm waiting for them, in my opinion it makes a lot of sense, why travelling for hours in packed trains or jammed motorways! why the need for office space in overly crowded cities, why don't we make good use of the...
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    Current Rates = Ticking Timebomb

    yes but a courier today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will turn you into a courier, unless you'be coding at night! I know that if I jump onto something totally unrelated I'll never get back to this land of bits and bytes... maybe you're different.
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    has it ever happened to you

    Thank you :smile I think I can start imagining this after my third contract, but right now, and with this crisis, hell no or yes or no or quite right, I don't deny that, I needed some +
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    has it ever happened to you

    Here I perfectly agree, I've done exactly the opposite, shown very little confidence, ahhhrrr. well it's a lesson, but I'm sure I was on a "Death March", the gloomy atmosphere, everyone fearing for their jobs, all deads down.... so I might have been spared, who knows! But jumping on new techs...
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    Looking to go Contracting

    any sane person would tell you to keep your perm right now.... you need a lot of luck out there these days, you'll get bored searching, you'll revalue what you left, you'll lose motivation, you'll pull your hair.... get the picture? but I'm not a sane person, so jump out, be brave and you'll...
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    has it ever happened to you

    I've opted out, but was not asked to do more hours, maybe they wanted me to do unpaid hours, maybe [cannot find the option to change username, thought I could delay thinking a good one I know...]
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    Agggghhh!!!

    rsingh is right, take the first offer, these days even the clients don't know what they want, look at me, the agent promised me the whole world if I accepted (simply because they new I had another offer already) so what I did? obviously I turned down the perm offer, got the contract, lasted a...
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    has it ever happened to you

    I've started contracting last month and it ended a week later, first time with umbrella company too. So here it goes: interview, no test, not many questions (weird I thought), got the job :happy. I work on a system requiring skills I don't have (literally not mentioned on my cv) while the...

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