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[xoggoth]

embedded C and assembler programming isn't in great demand

Really? Both still used a good deal in aircraft electronics, Smiths Aerospace etc.

[n5gooner]

ok made my mind up, played the three offers against each other, got a 40% rise from the advertised rate, so it looks like I'm going to be back in Banking for a while!!!!


and I have to say, all the agents were very good, no bad reports for any of them.....

[Zorba]

Total boredom?

You've never lived until you've sat all alone in a building for 6 weeks doing bugger all. (Summer vacation: academics disappear like greased lightning, the hewers of wood & drawers of water hang about for the entire time).

Having worked in that sector myself and been in that exact situation, it's amazing what skills you can pick up without any supervision or goals. I ended up figuring out how to lay cat5 and wired up some ports to student rooms.

I also found some real abandoned places. Spooky.

[Xenophon]

Total boredom?

You've never lived until you've sat all alone in a building for 6 weeks doing bugger all. (Summer vacation: academics disappear like greased lightning, the hewers of wood & drawers of water hang about for the entire time).

Hmmm, good point.

[Xenophon]

I do, however, have the urge to go contracting once again, but embedded C and assembler programming isn't in great demand.

...and leave your cushy education job - surely not?!

[Xenophon]

You are quite correct.

18 months.

Then I got a "permie" min wage job fixing fruit machine logic boards for a while.

Ah, cheers for replying.

[Captain Dispensable]

well three job offers now!!! This is where it gets hard to choose which one to go to!!

KFC, Burger King, or Mac D's?

KFC for me, because I Kan't Fookin Cook!

Note: the Spelling smilie is on holiday for this gag.

[SallyAnne]

well three job offers now!!! This is where it gets hard to choose which one to go to!!

Ah well done lad!!!!

[n5gooner]

Good luck sweetie

well three job offers now!!! This is where it gets hard to choose which one to go to!!

[Xenophon]

I sway from thinking i'll be fine something will come up to "Im never going to get a contract again".

I do too and I suspect we are not the only ones. Not to worry though, something always turns up.

Some of the guys on here have had massive gaps and still found a contract. This is going back several months, maybe years, but I seem to recall ZG posting something about beeing out of contract for months and months.

ZG - am I right??

[Diestl]

I've only got a week left and nothing concrete yet, so Im starting to get edgy. I sway from thinking i'll be fine something will come up to "Im never going to get a contract again".

[SallyAnne]

Thank SA, I know somethink will come along.

Hate having to deal with the agent and time wasting, but if you want the money, you have to put up with the sh!t.

I'm not one to sitting around the house, even for a week or two.

You could try and beat my post count - that should keep you busy for a week or two

[mictech]

Thank SA, I know somethink will come along.

Hate having to deal with the agent and time wasting, but if you want the money, you have to put up with the sh!t.

I'm not one to sitting around the house, even for a week or two.

[SallyAnne]

On the bench for a week myself now, everythings sc/dv cleared work, I wish they would just drop the line "willing to go through clearance" on the adds and just say you must have clearance, would save me loads of waste phone calls.
Trying to get a company to put me through clearance waiting on call back on interview. since it was yesterday I am assuming didn't get it

Try and keep your chin up hun - things always work out in the end.

This is the down side to what we do (which is why we are NOT employees!!!! ) - the uncertainty, the "am I ever going to find another gig" panic....you will though. Just keep looking.

[mictech]

On the bench for a week myself now, everythings sc/dv cleared work, I wish they would just drop the line "willing to go through clearance" on the adds and just say you must have clearance, would save me loads of waste phone calls.
Trying to get a company to put me through clearance waiting on call back on interview. since it was yesterday I am assuming didn't get it