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    Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2

    Well you were right! Speak of the devil... Feel free to get offended and insulted by technical interviews/test and to waive jobs because of this. The one guy who, ceteris paribus, won't get offended by them and will do well enough in them will get the job. Show me, don't tell me. I do agree...
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    Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2

    This is because 90% of those who recruit prefer to believe the experience in a CV rather than sit down and ask a person to show them the skills in some kind of technical interview. And this idea that experience measured as elapsed time equals skills is also a rather silly proxy people go by. Ten...
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    Any negative consequences of permanently leaving the UK (for tax purposes)?

    A slightly related question... If one was to leave the country for good at some point in the tax year, I guess that the £ 11,000 yearly allowance that a contractor is often advised to use for the monthly £ 671.66 director salary (and the reminder for shares) gets pro-rated, right? Does the...
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    Any negative consequences of permanently leaving the UK (for tax purposes)?

    There should be means to move some of the tax you have paid (I guess that that went into your state pension) between countries within the European Union. Hurry up before Brexit is finalised :D
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    Applying for A1 Cerificate for project in Norway

    I can't imagine them being cheap, Norway being Norway. There is a facebook group called "Brits in Oslo", they might be able to help you more. On a side note: is any agency.contact/you name it selling contracts for work in Norway? I'd be happy to move there again...
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    Applying for A1 Cerificate for project in Norway

    What are the reasons to keep on paying UK NI when abroad and, admittedly, a country with quite good free healthcare?
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    Contracting straight out of uni. Is it doable? v2

    Please, some sympathy for the OP! :ohwell To the OP: Being myself probably younger/less experienced than the average contractor here, I do understand your desire and ambition. It's true, there are many, many contractors that are pretty pants and if people could see inside you and measure your...
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    Project Deliverables - having a copy

    My dog logged in and downloaded it from home!
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    Project Deliverables - having a copy

    Still on the premise that if you KNOW it's against the contract, you shouldn't do it, and that if you think it's against the contract you still shouldn't do it: unless internal clientco e-mail forbids people from attaching files, I'm not really sure there would be mechanisms in place to catch...
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    Project Deliverables - having a copy

    Sounds like you have already tried and got caught?! Saving those docs as attachments to a draft e-mail and then accessing said account via webmail on your computer to then save the attachments might work. Unless your webmail access is via a VPN. In that case something more complex needs to be...
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    Finding my feet after a long stint with work

    I very much appreciate all inputs into this and it's quite refreshing to discuss work with others. An underlying theme seems to be that specialisation and experience are important and, clearly, I can't deny that they are paying more than one bill/mortagage/holiday for most of the professionals...
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    Finding my feet after a long stint with work

    Ahaha, yes, that's pretty ridiculous. Ladymuck, anything you can share about sites or agencies offering the type of projects you are experienced in (MI, business analysis, process re-engineering?)
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    Finding my feet after a long stint with work

    That, or agencies keen to sell anybody and client-side staff not being able to tell a good consultant from a bad one (which in turn is probably the reason why they needed some help iin the first place) :rollin:
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    Finding my feet after a long stint with work

    It'd be 4 years as employee (3 in the UK, 1 all over Europe) and the last 4 as a freelancer. Of these freelancing years, 2 and a half were outside the UK and in the secondary sector whereas I'd like to keep in line with my most recent experience (tertiary sector, in the UK). When you say: "How...
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    Finding my feet after a long stint with work

    Thanks for a non-sugar coated answer! You make a good point about all-roundedness, but what I have been doing the most in the last 4 years has been operational improvement. I'd be called into businesses to assess their operations by both looking at data (scary how many engineers capable of...
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