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Contract until EOY, handed in notice last week, now rate reductions starting nxt week
Actually, despite being a bit rude and presumptuous, TheDogsNads is probably right. I suspect I won't maximise $$$. I just don't care. Funnily enough, no exceptions quickly turned into talk of an exception because rolling the dice on several million quids worth of investment for the saving of...- fool
- Post #23
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Contract until EOY, handed in notice last week, now rate reductions starting nxt week
Might not be BT. Refinitiv are doing a global 10% cut. I told them to go jump. Apparently if you do, you get until the end of Oct.- fool
- Post #19
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Rate question
Even the higher end of the scale sounds low if you consider TCO, but it depends on what you're doing with them. If someone's deploying a static site that doesn't store any data, fair enough, but if you're actually using docker for anything useful, you need to consider compliance and change...- fool
- Post #10
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Your Best Rate And Year
That's kinda the point; you can hire accenture that'll send you a bunch of university students to prattle off terms and patterns they don't fully understand only to hit the orgs governance process and turn "simple" into unachievable. I work in and around DevOps / DevSecOps. It was an InfoSec...- fool
- Post #52
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Your Best Rate And Year
£1500 - 2019 for 9 months. I actually asked to be let go because I was twiddling my thumbs and didn't want to burn the relationship with the client permanently. Probably should have just milked it though. Most days billed was 265 but my rate was about half the above and I was billing days for...- fool
- Post #39
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State of the Market
The move to infrastructure-as-code has been happening for years; but it's not about being able to remodel at the drop of a hat, it's about assurance. If you have code that defines your stack you can: "Shift-left" and run "compliance-as-code", which basically means a good security team can...- fool
- Post #3,349
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There are a lot of whinging IT contractors
A lot of it just depends on attitude. You get a lot of the "not in my wheelhouse", "don't train your replacement", or "lets negotiate a new rate" type of responses around here, but the reality is that's just locking yourself in a box Both vertical and horizontal movement is entirely possible... -
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Security Clearance in 1 week!
Yup. I've seen successful applications return within just over 1 week to 9 months. I always found the longer it takes, the less likely it's going to be a yes.- fool
- Post #15
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Sexual Harassment
Both of these happen to me on a regular enough occurrence over several businesses and with different people. I've never been particularly bothered about being told I have a nice scarf, but I usually say "thanks, my mrs bought me it", but I always wonder what possesses people to do the whole... -
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Offered a Contract, is it worth considering?
This doesn't sound like a good deal. I think your calculation of coming off 2k better is wrong. If you umbrella (inside ir35) that amount, you'd be getting paid probably less given that the Employers NI is £15k on a £120,000 salary, and 220 (average working days) at £600 is 132000 and...- fool
- Post #8
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As a contractor, how do you answer this criticism?
They could: Collapse NIC and Employers NIC into income tax. The diversion serves no purpose other than to trick people into believing headline rates are lower than what they are. Nil rate Corp tax. Dividend taxed as Income. Spouses should be able to share Income tax brackets (A flat rate would... -
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Tory party members happy to destroy the UK to get Brexit
Most men didn't have the vote back then either. It was just landowners, and now instead of the vote it's retirement that only landowners are getting. -
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How do you choose your accountant?
No worries, happy with my choice. :) I landed on the site after I decided I wanted a freeagent accountant, by searching "freeagent accountant". It was an organic result, not a paid for ad, so maybe be careful the new redesign doesn't break your SEO.- fool
- Post #20
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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State of the Market
Contracting will always be following fads, cheap resources, or skilled niches. I think there's value in knowing which will support you earning enough to get out of the game, and what the likely lateral movements are. DevOps is a fad built on top of a skilled niche that'll continiously rebrand...- fool
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Made unemployed by an agency
Yes. If you haven't burned bridges, go ask your previous client if they still need you as a resource.- fool
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