Reply to: Contracting and the Way You Were Parented

[Old Greg]

she's dead you poor sod

I thought she'd been a bit quiet recently.

[DodgyAgent]

I'm living with your mum.

she's dead you poor sod

[Diestl]

£1k a day minimum

I take it this is London?

[Old Greg]

I was under the impression that the only requirement to being a contractor was that you should still be living with your mum.

I'm living with your mum.

[Zorba]

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[DodgyAgent]

I was under the impression that the only requirement to being a contractor was that you should still be living with your mum.

[wendigo100]

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[Zorba]

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[rootsnall]

I know plumbers who earn a fat load more than 200 a day

They must be ripping off grannies ! Some probably do get away with charging more but the daily rate sub contracting round my way was 200 tops when I last hired one.

[HankWangford]

The builders who are minted are businessmen who happen to work in the building industry. Plumbers, brickies etc work a lot harder than we do to earn 200 a day, and that is good money. Don't encourage your kids to be builders unless they are obviously not cut out for sitting on your arse work.

I know plumbers who earn a fat load more than 200 a day

[rootsnall]

When I was growing up the advice was always get into IT or a similar office job, it's a job for life, etc. Don't be a builder or a plumber, that's what the monkey's do.

They seem to have done alright over the last ten years. Most of the builders I know are minted.

The builders who are minted are businessmen who happen to work in the building industry. Plumbers, brickies etc work a lot harder than we do to earn 200 a day, and that is good money. Don't encourage your kids to be builders unless they are obviously not cut out for sitting on your arse work.

[rootsnall]

Why is .net "where it's at"? Is it paying £1k a day now?

£1k a day minimum

[Zorba]

Why is .net "where it's at"? Is it paying £1k a day now?

No idea but it must surely be paying better than that SAP thing. You'd have to be mad to get back into that....

Milan? Anybody?

[AlfredJPruffock]

It's quite worrying just how much you turn into your Dad as you get older.

Growing up to be just like Dad
death defying times ahead
Now Dad sits and has every comfort
and sits with a washable cover

but it worries him that his life has gone by .

Cheerio.

So he says to his son.

I don't want to
I don't need to
I've retired you see.

But it worries me
how can I convey to
you might turn out to be ,
possibly....an armchair like me.


Vivian Stanshall

[ChimpMaster]

.net is where it's at nowadays - although I know several people who were pocketing over £1K a day in that field in the late 90's

My parents came to England in the sixties and set up their businesses from nothing. Neither were uni educated - they sent me there though and even though I'm now a contractor who's doing alright for himself, I still feel like I should do more to surpass their efforts (as each generation is 'supposed to' in my family).

Why is .net "where it's at"? Is it paying £1k a day now?