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Originally posted by assclownYeh im not under the illusion that my degree is worth a damn. It was basically just an expensive 4 year postponement of the inevitable spirit crushing reality that is 'the real world'.
..anyway I'll gladly hump desktops and monitor boxes till the cows come home for £250 a day...and will consider myself lucky.
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Originally posted by assclown..anyway I'll gladly hump desktops and monitor boxes till the cows come home for £250 a day...and will consider myself lucky.
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Yeh im not under the illusion that my degree is worth a damn. It was basically just an expensive 4 year postponement of the inevitable spirit crushing reality that is 'the real world'.
..anyway I'll gladly hump desktops and monitor boxes till the cows come home for £250 a day...and will consider myself lucky.
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Sorry to break this to you, but after 2-3 years of experience you degree doesn't mean anything to most employers/clients.
1) If you've got skills someone needs, check out the market rate and go for it.
2) If you haven't got marketable skills yet, find an employer who will train you then try 1) again
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Just set your rate at £300/day.
If you get a job within a few weeks:
* earn £300/day for the contract duration
* next time, set your rate at {currentRate*1.1}
* repeat
If you don't find a job within a few weeks:
* set you rate at {currentRate*0.9}
* look for a job for a few weeks
* repeat
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Try and get work with investment banks. Once you are in then u shouldn't struggle to find contract work with other banks. My project is paying out £250/day for rollout engineers doing work a monkey could do, to give you an idea of money. Agencies/Banks may not look at u if they can't see any financial companies on your CV. And if you do struggle lie on your CV, put down a bank in Germany or some European city, blag it.
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Come back and ask again when you've got 13 years industry experience.
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apply for contracts and only give quoted rates that are above 20gbp per hour.
Always aim to give a figure that you need to be haggled down from.
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Change your name to something more reassuringly professional, like Peter or Myles. Call me prejudiced, but Assclown sets alarm bells ringing for some reason.
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Originally posted by assclownHello everybody,
I've got a 2.1 degree, 3 years industry experience and am currently contracting as a systems analyst.
I want to know what peoples opinions are on how to progress to something (anything) that I can get a good couple hundred quid a day rather than 20/hr. Please share your wisdom benevolent contractors.
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Hello everybody,
I've got a 2.1 degree, 3 years industry experience and am currently contracting as a systems analyst.
I want to know what peoples opinions are on how to progress to something (anything) that I can get a good couple hundred quid a day rather than 20/hr. Please share your wisdom benevolent contractors.
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