Originally posted by Dark Black
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Originally posted by RocketZorba, spot on...I have to feel pretty sick to take a day off...and even when I do, I'm thinking about the money I'm not earning!
I can stay at home and feel lousy and earn nothing or...
I can go to work, feek lousy but earn lots...
Bit of a no brainer really
As to contracting or not, it wasnt just about the money for me (ok quite a large part of it was ) - it was also about flexiblity, feeling in control of my own affairs, knowing that if a gig was a bit duff then I'd be out of there in a few months and doing something else, plus exposure to lots of different fields. I always tended to get a bit bored staying in one place for a long time.
In the end (and I should have done it 10 years earlier really) I dumped a very easy role on 45k with better than usual bens, took a couple of months off to chill and put my CV on the net... 4 days later I had a nice local contract were I'm currently hacking Java and getting paid to learn Unix
Lifes good...
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Originally posted by TazMaNJudging by the lack of response from Gurps, I presume he has decided to remain on the poverty line
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Judging by the lack of response from Gurps, I presume he has decided to remain on the poverty line
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Originally posted by Zorba... but you'll be surprised how well you feel when 'sick day = no pay'. Broken leg? Walk it off.
Zorba, spot on...I have to feel pretty sick to take a day off...and even when I do, I'm thinking about the money I'm not earning!
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... but you'll be surprised how well you feel when 'sick day = no pay'. Broken leg? Walk it off.
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of course if you go sick for 8 months you'd be better off as a permie...
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You would take home at least double (unless you have a bad tax advisor), and on £450, quite a bit more.
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Originally posted by gurps_covI am currently a permie and I have been offered a permanent Java role in the west midlands at a salary of £40k ( i would be pocketing 29,273.60 net after tax and NI)
However I have always thougt about going contracting.
Looking around at various job sites I can see the daily rate for Java is between 300 - 450 per day.
Can someone tell me how much more money I would pocket via contracting assuming the following:
1. I contract for a year with no gaps.
2. I go via the ltd company route
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to contract or not
I am currently a permie and I have been offered a permanent Java role in the west midlands at a salary of £40k ( i would be pocketing 29,273.60 net after tax and NI)
However I have always thougt about going contracting.
Looking around at various job sites I can see the daily rate for Java is between 300 - 450 per day.
Can someone tell me how much more money I would pocket via contracting assuming the following:
1. I contract for a year with no gaps.
2. I go via the ltd company routeTags: None
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