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Recent content by munkee
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Cryptocurrency
I'd use this opportunity as a time to look back at opportunities missed and buy in whilst the going is cheap. It's going to be a couple of years in my opinion before we see the regulations pushed through and become the "normal environment". Until that time its choppy seas and any gains are going... -
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Cryptocurrency
Well into my crypto! Im currently holding Eth, XLM, XRP and LTC. I see Eth as the key stone and I couldnt decide between XRP and XLM so went in 50/50. http://bitly.com/2FT9G9P My binance ref if anyone is looking to sign up to that exchange. It's been invite only a few times now. -
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Contract to permie Salary Worth it ????
Due to the business reaching it's targets this year we are happy to inform you that from the start of April your annual salary will increase by 1.3%. Congratulations and well done team! In other news sadly we are unable to offer free parking at our head office. Please follow this link to see...- munkee
- Post #40
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Contract to permie Salary Worth it ????
Interesting comments from the regulars. You'd wonder why anyone was a contractor....- munkee
- Post #33
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Fluxible?
As a side project I'm currently a few days out from releasing a "direct" model for substitution work. I have no big backing, and I have no research to suggest it would take off at all. However, I've used it as an opportunity to put to practice some of my dev knowledge. As others have said, I...- munkee
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Are we really thinking of off payroll rules for Private Sector?
The tool still seems to be receiving updates as the right to sub question has gone through a number of iterations the last few weeks. Today its pretty clear cut.- munkee
- Post #61
- Forum: The Future of Contracting
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IR35 PS - So anyone had the discussion yet?
Seems a few of those walking out is producing new opportunities after my recent discussion with a recruiter in the north.- munkee
- Post #316
- Forum: IR35 Reform
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technical background / previous devs
My cv is broad. Over the years I've worked on a lot of projects but I tend to focus on what I added to each of them along with the outcome of the project. As eek mentioned it's about having a general understanding of as much as you can rather than depth of knowledge. Over the years I've noticed...- munkee
- Post #30
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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technical background / previous devs
I moved from dev to ba to solution architecture. In all honesty the transitions were not hard due to the development environment I was in before. You had to do elements of these roles as we weren't a huge business to support a full change team. I did BA training through bcs and spent 3 years...- munkee
- Post #26
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Anybody else just sick of contracting?
Typically 3/4 of my invoice is spent on hookers and drugs. If you are asking is there more to life than contracting, then yes there is its usually in a bag and answers to the name charlie.- munkee
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Market downturn
My most resent role has involved a lot more work with non relational databases. Redis, mongodb, cassandra and even when we discussed relational it moved towards postgres. In my opinion oracle is definitely a dieing market right now, saying that obiee seems to get a lot of love.- munkee
- Post #29
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Day rate translated into perm salary
Pretty much the same as myself. Take home is much higher plus also ploughing money into the pension. I rarely used up holiday as permie anyway but now it means I can retire myself early.- munkee
- Post #26
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Day rate translated into perm salary
Happy to be called thick here. But the context of the document shown is around cost to the employer. I have made the assumption (maybe incorrectly) when reading through the original post that the author wants to essentially know what rate they need to equate to the same take home pay of a...- munkee
- Post #20
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Autumn Statement 2016
I've seen a few people mentioning umbrellas will become popular. Is there a rough comparison which essentially says that you are potentially better off going that route now rather than running your ltd? I had always thought running through an umbrella for those gov roles would have been the...
