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Previously on "Flouncing? Unprofessional or sometimes essential?"

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  • yasockie
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    Just carry on invoicing until you find something concrete that's better financially (unlikely) or more fulfilling (but sufficient financially). Learn something unrelated while on the job.

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    What does your agent say?
    I presume he killed his agent.

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Originally posted by vwdan View Post
    Jeez, no wonder so many contractors suck if this is the attitude.
    Ok, or get trained at your company's expense. FFS Pedants

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    What does your agent say?
    Lol go somewhere else where I can pimp you out for more I imagine...

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by gruntling View Post
    So I'm approaching that "third year itch". My role is safe but tediously dull in a quite insane (IB) environment.

    I'm not learning anything and the work feels pointless like digging holes and filling them again but raking in a reasonable rate (my best).

    I guess its the middle life contractor crisis but I've the urge to act like the clerk in Quadrophenia (1979)

    "Yeah I'll tell you what you can do with your eye-teeth and your job, you can take the e-mail and the change control and all that other rubbish I have to go about with and you can stuff them right up your arse!"

    So my Contractor safe half is saying "just WFH and bill bill bill" but the Contractor Devil on my shoulder is saying "you are a contractor, not a number,a freeman! screw them"!

    Has anyone been in a similar situation and what did you do?
    What does your agent say?

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  • vwdan
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    Originally posted by Unix View Post
    Yeah you only go permie if you think you feel a long term illness coming.
    Or if you want to have a baby!

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  • Unix
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    Originally posted by vwdan View Post
    Jeez, no wonder so many contractors suck if this is the attitude.
    Yeah you only go permie if you think you feel a long term illness coming.

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  • vwdan
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    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
    You go permie to learn something.
    Jeez, no wonder so many contractors suck if this is the attitude.

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  • tomtomagain
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    Originally posted by gruntling View Post
    So I'm approaching that "third year itch". My role is safe but tediously dull in a quite insane (IB) environment.

    I'm not learning anything and the work feels pointless like digging holes and filling them again but raking in a reasonable rate (my best).

    I guess its the middle life contractor crisis but I've the urge to act like the clerk in Quadrophenia (1979)

    "Yeah I'll tell you what you can do with your eye-teeth and your job, you can take the e-mail and the change control and all that other rubbish I have to go about with and you can stuff them right up your arse!"

    So my Contractor safe half is saying "just WFH and bill bill bill" but the Contractor Devil on my shoulder is saying "you are a contractor, not a number,a freeman! screw them"!

    Has anyone been in a similar situation and what did you do?
    Left contracting and started my own company.

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Originally posted by gruntling View Post
    So I'm approaching that "third year itch". My role is safe but tediously dull in a quite insane (IB) environment.
    Wrong assumption.

    Originally posted by gruntling View Post

    I'm not learning anything and the work feels pointless like digging holes and filling them again but raking in a reasonable rate (my best).
    You go permie to learn something.

    I don't understand the "flouncing" bit here.

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by gruntling View Post
    So I'm approaching that "third year itch". My role is safe but tediously dull in a quite insane (IB) environment.

    I'm not learning anything and the work feels pointless like digging holes and filling them again but raking in a reasonable rate (my best).

    I guess its the middle life contractor crisis but I've the urge to act like the clerk in Quadrophenia (1979)

    "Yeah I'll tell you what you can do with your eye-teeth and your job, you can take the e-mail and the change control and all that other rubbish I have to go about with and you can stuff them right up your arse!"

    So my Contractor safe half is saying "just WFH and bill bill bill" but the Contractor Devil on my shoulder is saying "you are a contractor, not a number,a freeman! screw them"!

    Has anyone been in a similar situation and what did you do?
    Found a new contract.

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  • gruntling
    started a topic Flouncing? Unprofessional or sometimes essential?

    Flouncing? Unprofessional or sometimes essential?

    So I'm approaching that "third year itch". My role is safe but tediously dull in a quite insane (IB) environment.

    I'm not learning anything and the work feels pointless like digging holes and filling them again but raking in a reasonable rate (my best).

    I guess its the middle life contractor crisis but I've the urge to act like the clerk in Quadrophenia (1979)

    "Yeah I'll tell you what you can do with your eye-teeth and your job, you can take the e-mail and the change control and all that other rubbish I have to go about with and you can stuff them right up your arse!"

    So my Contractor safe half is saying "just WFH and bill bill bill" but the Contractor Devil on my shoulder is saying "you are a contractor, not a number,a freeman! screw them"!

    Has anyone been in a similar situation and what did you do?

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