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Recent content by willendure
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State of the Market
WillEndure is off the bench - for real this time. First day of a new outside IR35 gig tomorrow, public sector, fairly well paid. Quite a complex project spanning several different public sector bodies, so things might take while... good, it will be a great way to sit out the AI bubble bursting...- willendure
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Stock markets crashing (tech/IA bubble has arrived)
Its the signs of earnings roll-over that triggered it I think. Poor earnings from Google due to their own AI canabalizing their search, for one. Basically the AI bubble is driven by earnings growth from the capex itself, but the capex is debt funded, and the cost of that debt goes up as more of...- willendure
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- Forum: General
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BPSS for outside IR-35 contractor.
Well that answer was about as helpful as a kick in the nuts, thanks. What I am asking is, when asked about employment history do you just put: A) Director/Consultant at My Ltd continuously for last 19 years, my accountant can give a reference. OR B) List out all your contracts and gaps in...- willendure
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
I totally agree! But if they can get a job knowing sweet FA, then surely those of us who are real engineers can do it, and the opportunities do exist.- willendure
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BPSS for outside IR-35 contractor.
AI tells me that as someone who as worked exclusively and been paid continuously through my own Ltd of which I am sole director, that for a BPSS I should just put down for the last 3 years that I was the self employed Director of the same Ltd - no need to chase down client references. I have...- willendure
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State of the Market
Despite holding a masters degree in AI, and having some real recent experience that I attempt to maximize on my CV, getting in has been a struggle. In my case, I got my AI degree in 1998, when there were no AI roles, so spent 15 years in Java, then 10 in solution architecture. I missed out on...- willendure
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State of the Market
I am seeing it in the ads I get from jobserve, both trends, AI up and outside IR35 roles.- willendure
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State of the Market
https://www.contractoruk.com/news/ai-drives-it-contractor-demand-to-three-year-high "AI contracts: more often outside IR35 than inside IR35"- willendure
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Massive Crypto Heist
Thats why you never leave your crypto on the exchange, put it in a hardware wallet. Like I did with a Coldcard - which turned out not to be secure because they didn't call the correct random number generator! Fortunately for me, I sold it all before that happened. I made > 100% gains on crypto...- willendure
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- Forum: General
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Thoughts on the budget?
BADR limit halved, could affect recovery rate from winding up an ltd ?- willendure
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- Forum: General
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Economic Rescue Plan
I read something interesting recently, which is that at the end of the 90s, over 50% of the FTSE-100 was owned by 2 large pools of capital - pensions and insurance companies. Today its under 5%. All the rules that enabled it, like no stamp duty on shares for pension funds, were phased out, and...- willendure
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- Forum: General
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Thoughts on the budget?
Did contractors escape without being taxed anything extra this time ?- willendure
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- Forum: General
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All jobs to be taken by robots, apparently.
Not content with undercutting IT rates, Indians have now chosen to willingly participate in undercutting all of human endeavour. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckvgyml6pdm9o- willendure
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