Reply to: When do you start looking?

[tim123]

Of the 12 Dyson (sic) that Argos sell, only 3 are under 200 quid (one by one penny). The only one under 175 is a cylinder and I was instructed to buy an upright.

So yes, you can get a Dyson for under 200 quid, but only just.

tim

[Ardesco]

I didn't pay that much for mine, was about £140.


You need to shop around a bit

[tim123]

don't you mean more expensive but better.

How many other vacuums cost over 200 notes?

tim

[Ardesco]

well with no bags to flog to the unsuspecting consumer they have to reduce the bild quality of the hoover so that they can flog replacement hoover parts instead!!


Simple business economy and hats off to the man that invented a vacuum that works better than your standard bag one, yet gets the company even more revenue than the ones needing bags because you have to buy replacement parts that are more expensive than bags and are only manufactured by the company that made the damn thing in the first place!!!!

(selling it as a cheap but better option because it needs no bags was genius marketing too, if only your poor average consumer knew the real cost of keeping one of these things going...)

[Ardesco]

Millions, I would think.

Judging by the number of dead Dysons at the Civic Amenity Site...

They aren't that robust are they, we are on our second one now and it has nearly given up the ghost. Still works well but all the bits are starting to fall off it now.

[tim123]

Do they make vacuum cleaners by any chance?

No. Surely they sell in the hundreds of thousands. (I meant thousands literally, as in less than 10,000)

tim

[tim123]

Just trying to encourage people to get on the gravy-train while they can.

SAP is the market for the future.

Too bloody true.

Went to a sister company last week. Has 250 (white collar) people and makes a dozen sepecialist products that sell in the thousands. Only about 20 of that 250 are development engineers (8 writing software). (Manufacturing is outsourced to a third wold country)

I wondered what the other 230 did and blagged a trip round the building. Got to a cubicle of 6 people and was told, "this is our department for SAP training". WTF there are nearly as many people training the sales/marketing/accounts/CS staff how to use a frigging computer program than there are developing new products.

I'm in the wrong game.

tim

[swamp]

I don't start looking until I'm actually on the bench. I've been lucky in that the last two times it took only five days to find a contract. Being on the bench at least gets you a well earned break these days.

[TheMonkey]

Ok benchmark - 4 days to get another contract signed and sealed. Landed new one today for £45 a day more than the last one

[Joe Black]

Too true, luck is always a good thing. Then again a bit a blagging, research etc doesn't go amiss.

Certainly a few people on this board, with perhaps with less skills than yourself (operations, tape changing and such like) have managed it.

As I said, if you can get in there then it's the next best thing to working for the EU, job for life and all. Not surprising though since most EU IT dept's use SAP themselves...

[Weltchy]

Just trying to encourage people to get on the gravy-train while they can.

SAP is the market for the future.

Good Point. The problem, as always tho, is how to get your foot in the door. Maybe develop a strategy, migrating from current to new skill set. Of course, one thing you need tho, a good dose of luck!!!!

[rootsnall]

Probably 400-450 for an experienced bread and butter ABAPer at the moment. The newer dimension skills can have a premium but the higher rates don't seem to last long as these skills are coming in from India once something new kicks off. The rates go up and down very quickly but the ups are limited due to the overseas influence again, the lows went down to 250 a few years back, I'm happy if it will stick at 400 !? I think it has been the best coders contracting skill to have if you were lucky enough to scab your way in a few years back.

[Joe Black]

Probably not. But then, thats my skill set. Thats like saying all that plus SAP still doesnt earn as much as a hedge fund manager, or a professional footballer.

Just trying to encourage people to get on the gravy-train while they can.

SAP is the market for the future.

[Pondlife]

In SAP you've got to be in the right sub-skillset to really have a chance of making the big bucks, for example the HR module was big a couple of years ago but I'm not sure what's up now. I used to work on the ABAP side of SAP some years ago but gave it up to work in EAI. Sometimes I regret the move but I doubt ABAP programmers get much more than £400/day anyway.

ABAP'ers don't get as much as functional consultants especially in the new dimension stuff, APO, CRM, BW etc but there is generally always work out there.

SAP Proj Mgmt is usually big bucks. The rates aren't what they were though.

[ChimpMaster]

Probably not. But then, thats my skill set. Thats like saying all that plus SAP still doesnt earn as much as a hedge fund manager, or a professional footballer.

In SAP you've got to be in the right sub-skillset to really have a chance of making the big bucks, for example the HR module was big a couple of years ago but I'm not sure what's up now. I used to work on the ABAP side of SAP some years ago but gave it up to work in EAI. Sometimes I regret the move but I doubt ABAP programmers get much more than £400/day anyway.