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Recent content by permidom

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    Lloyds Bank Group - permanent

    Good basic salary. Didn't realise SA's (just designers at my company) get paid so much.
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    Contractor knacker yard

    Nice to hear that.
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    Contractor knacker yard

    Oldest I've met is 55, absolutely loaded. If l was him i'd have retired by now but he loves to keep busy.
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    Contractor knacker yard

    Some re-assuring posts here so thanks. Ageism shouldn't matter as much contracting is what I'm getting here. (Still sucks hitting 40 though.)
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    Contractor knacker yard

    I can only guess it must be down to cost.
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    Contractor knacker yard

    Yes i've seen this over the years. New technology being used to reach same end goal costing more time and money.
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    Contractor knacker yard

    Hello folks, I wanted to ask contract software developers a question that might be come across contentious; unintentionally l must add. What age do you feel it's game over in the contracting world given that allot of devs are young pups (just an observation of people around me in my company)...
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    Keep itching to get into Contracting

    Skill set is standard. I'm a Windows C++ programmer first and second ASP.NET developer.
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    Keep itching to get into Contracting

    Are such gaps questioned and ever a problem?
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    Keep itching to get into Contracting

    I'm afraid you're probably right. I regard my Job my first priority which is not right.
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    Keep itching to get into Contracting

    What l did was use the following calculator to work out what l could earn, Contracting Calculator - Results (outside IR35) That's what got me tempted. 220 days a year is assumed and l would guess probably not realistic.
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    Keep itching to get into Contracting

    Thing is my permanent job in IT is not very exciting. I've been in the job 10 years now and tired of it. The temptations to ditch my job are regular but l have a feeling I'd regret it given how "comfortable" the role is. There are a few reason to ditch, 1. More variety 2. Experience life...
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    War Chest.

    What would generate that passive income? I use the stock market myself.
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    War Chest.

    Forgive my ignorance (new to the forum) but as a contractor l would have thought your war chest would be in years given the pay?

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