Reply to: Taking pay cut for part-time dream gig

[MrMarkyMark]

Why is it a dream job working with celebrities?

+1, probably is for Daily Mail / Celebrity rag readers

[woohoo]

My 4 day a week contract lasted about a month before they wanted to change it to 5 days a week.

Why is it a dream job working with celebrities?

[MrMarkyMark]

Fair enough that you don't get why - it involves working with a certain set of celebrities

FFS, some real "dream" gig

it's 20% off the daily rate and a 4 day week.

These must be really big, successful, and richer than yewl, if you are prepared to take a 20% drop in rate and a 20% drop in work

[WTFH]

Fair enough that you don't get why - it involves working with a certain set of celebrities and I got in via recommendation......

You mean you've been offered a job as a part time moderator on here?

[LucidDementia]

Fair enough that you don't get why - it involves working with a certain set of celebrities and I got in via recommendation......

Ahh, now I understand.

When the seagulls follow the trawler...

[Churchill]

I find it really amusing someone who's regularly posted about 'maintaining' or 'protecting' their rate is now whimping on about taking a 20% cut for their 'dream' role.

True comedy gold, you couldnt make some of this stuff up.

Some ****er is!

[SueEllen]

Fair enough that you don't get why - it involves working with a certain set of celebrities and I got in via recommendation......

Funnily enough I know people who have worked with different sets of celebrities and they point out they are just normal people. Some are nice and some are a***holes. -And no none of the people I know who have done this stuff work on airlines.

[darmstadt]

Fair enough that you don't get why - it involves working with a certain set of celebrities and I got in via recommendation......

X-Factor fluffer?

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Just musing, but if you had to take a rate cut to get the gig it's not really on the "dream" level; is it?

Surely a dream gig is:

Doing the exact work you want to do with exactly the right amount of challenge, is based at home or close or in a location you dream of working in, pays boatloads over your market rate and ticks every other box imaginable.

I just can't compute how anything involving any level of compromise meets the dream standard.

But then again I'm a tosser.

Fair enough that you don't get why - it involves working with a certain set of celebrities and I got in via recommendation......

[FatLazyContractor]

Just musing, but if you had to take a rate cut to get the gig it's not really on the "dream" level; is it?

Surely a dream gig is:

Doing the exact work you want to do with exactly the right amount of challenge, is based at home or close or in a location you dream of working in, pays boatloads over your market rate and ticks every other box imaginable.

I just can't compute how anything involving any level of compromise meets the dream standard.

But then again I'm a tosser.

Dream gig is like a good agent. Always dead.

[LucidDementia]

Just musing, but if you had to take a rate cut to get the gig it's not really on the "dream" level; is it?

Surely a dream gig is:

Doing the exact work you want to do with exactly the right amount of challenge, is based at home or close or in a location you dream of working in, pays boatloads over your market rate and ticks every other box imaginable.

I just can't compute how anything involving any level of compromise meets the dream standard.

But then again I'm a tosser.

[VectraMan]

ah so one less day AND 20% less... Fair bit then.

Always thought a 4 day week would be perfect. Too hard this 5 days lark.

You are aware that you can't claim JSA for the fifth day?

[psychocandy]

Sorry for late responses....

4 days at the same rate isn't a problem - it's 20% off the daily rate and a 4 day week.

ah so one less day AND 20% less... Fair bit then.

Always thought a 4 day week would be perfect. Too hard this 5 days lark.

[psychocandy]

FTFY

Awesome!

[EternalOptimist]

running a company is all about maximising profits.

finding the dream job is something different altogether.



If you find that dream job, go for it my friend.