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Previously on "How much do you consider to be a decent war chest?"
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One thing I need to quietly just say is also with warchests that it is region specific & job specific; e.g. London compared to Birmingham as demonstrated here in this lovely chart can creep with percentages so what you can save for a warchest also needs to take into account that generic qoutes might not last long in certain regions also this been said; We have a variety of IT peeps here from different tiers of the IT contracting industry with variances in regards to pay.
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All those people saying £20k is plenty!
Try saying that back in March and then throughout summer whilst out of contract and pressing the JS search button.
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Originally posted by ChimpMaster View PostLol how did you even find this thread!
Interesting though, a £300k warchest 8 years ago would have quite easily been spent by now if someone relied entirely and only on these funds.
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Originally posted by NowPermOutsideUK View PostBump a thread 12 years old talking about 20k to 300k warchests.
How relevant this is today !
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Lol how did you even find this thread!
Interesting though, a £300k warchest 8 years ago would have quite easily been spent by now if someone relied entirely and only on these funds.
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Originally posted by NowPermOutsideUK View PostSorry was distracted. Yes it should read 2012 you are correct.
I just went through it and thought 20k these days seems a really low number indeed.
You can tell that almost a decade ago people thought the market was bad and contracting was bad so hope that gives some strength to others on here
I don’t remember it ever being this bad before - JobServe has always had 10000 jobs listed not the 5000 it currently has
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Sorry was distracted. Yes it should read 2012 you are correct.
I just went through it and thought 20k these days seems a really low number indeed.
You can tell that almost a decade ago people thought the market was bad and contracting was bad so hope that gives some strength to others on here
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Bump a thread 12 years old talking about 20k to 300k warchests.
How relevant this is today !
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Originally posted by Normie View PostI also wish I was creative enough or driven to come up with a Plan B to make use of some of the money rather than it just sitting there getting eaten away by inflation. My biggest problem is that I'm too lazy.
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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostMines 12" and growing....
Ho hum...
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