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    Poll: How did the dividend tax reform of 2016 affect your day rate?

    I agree with WordIsBond. In comparison to larger businesses, for a single contractor with his own limited the line between business expenses and all the different taxes (including income tax) kind of becomes irrelevant. What counts at the end of the day is the take-home on one end and the day...
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    Poll: How did the dividend tax reform of 2016 affect your day rate?

    That's all good stuff guys. Thank you. It's interesting to see how many different reasons there are for adjusting the day rate (or not). Apart from other factors did you consider the dividend tax increase in your day rate adjustments?
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    Poll: How did the dividend tax reform of 2016 affect your day rate?

    I did indeed not think about that case. Thanks for pointing out. @All Is there any way to add this option to the poll?
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    Poll: How did the dividend tax reform of 2016 affect your day rate?

    The next tax reform is already on its way ("promising" a dividend allowance cut from 2018). I am curious: How did the dividend tax reform of 2016 affect your day rate? a) My day rate decreased. b) My day rate stayed about the same. c) My day rate increased and my take-home is about the same...
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    Why do you want to become an I.T. contractor? What are your hopes?

    I used to be a full-time IT consultant. My boss sent me around a lot. I basically did what we contractors are doing now - I was always the external guy. I got tired of saving the world for my clients day in day out and then having to explain to my boss once a year why I am asking for a little...
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    What is your #1 challenge preventing you from doing contract work in UK right now?

    That's good stuff. Thank you. Re: Berlin > I am more interested in London and UK. Came here in 2014 and love it. One reason: The people are so much nicer here. :rolleyes:
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    What is your #1 challenge preventing you from doing contract work in UK right now?

    Thank you. Which part of finding a gig are you struggling with at the moment? How to find an open position? Getting replies to applications? Making it past the first phone interview? Something completely different?
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    MBP now, or later ...

    I use virtual box as well. I heard of the issues with 15" MBPs and the graphic card. Fortunately, the 13 inches have no dedicated graphic card. I guess, most developers with 15" MBPs have to wait until these problems are solved by Apple or the virtual box guys ... or switch. :/
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    LinkedIn

    I used a dedicated email address for my LinkedIn profile in order to measure the relevant job offers from LinkedIn in comparison to let's say Job portals like CW Jobs. About 67% of the relevant request come indeed via LinkedIn. I add to my status something like: "... - Available again from...
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    Website development

    Hi Worthy, Is it a static website or a web-application? In the later case, did you consider the mean stack: home - Mongo Express Angular Node Furthermore, I suggest have a look a Twitter Bootstrap the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on...
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    Training / Upskilling

    Hi Ted, I am Senior Java Developer and Trainer for Full-stack Software Engineering. As a contractor I managed to double my day rate over the past two years. Yes, it's about skills but it's also a lot about selling and positioning yourself. One principle I follow is similar to the advice: "Dress...
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    MBP now, or later ...

    Hi, I recently purchased a new MBP with Touch Bar. I am a software engineer and have a couple of IDEs open at the same time and a few VMs running in the background. 16 GB have always been enough for me over the last 3 years. I think it's worth to consider that MacOS has a sophisticated Memory...
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    OSX Terminal Help

    I do this quiet regularly in order to remove all node_modules or .git folders: find . -type d -name "XYZ" -exec rm -rf {} \; You can drop this statement while being in the parent directory. I put this terminal statement into a *.sh file which allows me to execute it easily.
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    What is your #1 challenge preventing you from doing contract work in UK right now?

    Hi, My name is David and I am a Java developer from Berlin. Three years ago I made the big move to London in order to work as a contractor for different companies in UK. Currently I am working as an entrepreneur on a potential business idea and was wondering if there are by any chance any...
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