Reply to: Where are all the contracts?

[Devlin]

Plus if the old contracting game turns bad, you can always get a job in a pub in London (unless they are all full of immigrant convicts).

No chance. The Poles have way undercut us now!

[TheFaQQer]

Err yes - taxes are lower as its easier to avoid the Aus vers of IR35, the exchange rate is good (but not as good as it used to be!). The wages are higher in the UK because there are too many Brits in Oz and too much outsourcing in a smallish market. Also cost of lving in Sydney is only about 20% than London. So we'll be here for a while! Pity about the weather tho...

Plus if the old contracting game turns bad, you can always get a job in a pub in London (unless they are all full of immigrant convicts).

[SueEllen]

Sorry will rephrase...

To take contracts off British born folk. Then after making off with the booty we can run back to the antipodes and live like landed gentry whilst chortling at the Brits and deriding them at rugby... why else?

better?

Are you from SA?

[Captain Kangaroo]

Pay?

You mean "the pay is much better in the UK"?

Err yes - taxes are lower as its easier to avoid the Aus vers of IR35, the exchange rate is good (but not as good as it used to be!). The wages are higher in the UK because there are too many Brits in Oz and too much outsourcing in a smallish market. Also cost of lving in Sydney is only about 20% than London. So we'll be here for a while! Pity about the weather tho...

[tay]

Sorry will rephrase...

To take contracts off British born folk. Then after making off with the booty we can run back to the antipodes and live like landed gentry whilst chortling at the Brits and deriding them at rugby... why else?

better?

[TheFaQQer]

To take contracts off British born folk. Then after making off with the booty we can run back to the antipodes and live like landed gentry whilst chortling at the Brits and deriding them at rugby... why else?

You mean "the pay is much better in the UK"?

[tay]

I am not Australian I do however come from the anitipodes.

[ChimpMaster]

To take contracts off British born folk. Then after making off with the booty we can run back to the antipodes and live like landed gentry whilst chortling at the Brits and deriding them at rugby... why else?

I'm British but can I still come live in Oz with the rest of you criminals?

[tay]

To take contracts off British born folk. Then after making off with the booty we can run back to the antipodes and live like landed gentry whilst chortling at the Brits and deriding them at rugby... why else?

[someone has my name]

what about Austraila?... why come here?

[ChimpMaster]

When the work wasn't good....ie:not greenfield development etc, you get to cosul yourself by watching the money piling up. Takes the edge of it for sure.

And after 10 year, even if the market conditions are bad, and you're out of work, the money still comes in..but not so quickly. Interest and divis etc..but that's another story.


Do the time...and it's all good

Ah OK I understand. It's only been 3 years for me but it seems like I'm aiming for the same thing as you.

[max]

Max, just wondering what you meant by this? Do you mean you were retained by the bank even though the market conditions were bad?

When the work wasn't good....ie:not greenfield development etc, you get to cosul yourself by watching the money piling up. Takes the edge of it for sure.

And after 10 year, even if the market conditions are bad, and you're out of work, the money still comes in..but not so quickly. Interest and divis etc..but that's another story.


Do the time...and it's all good

[TheFaQQer]

I read it as him meaning when the work was rubbish, not the market.

That's how I read it.

[tay]

I read it as him meaning when the work was rubbish, not the market.

[ChimpMaster]

...and in the bad times...you sit back an count the money rolling in......

Max, just wondering what you meant by this? Do you mean you were retained by the bank even though the market conditions were bad?