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Chef (or anyone else who has responded similarly), you can have my place on the bench. Been sat here since Christmas, health scare and house renovation, and finally decided that there's some '.net' work that must need doing.
It was surprisingly tiring - picking up the kids and being ignored by schoolmoms is boring after a few days.
Don't know how long the graft will last though! Hopefully until xmas hols time...
Budge up, might be a few more of us hitting the bench yet.
On CNN an expert reckoned the figure was very conservative, JP Morgan have already revised upwards. The expert reckoned that banks had over recruited, over the last decade, they need to shed about 120,000 jobs. The worst job cull in the City since 1929.
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Currently in a contract till end of September, been told that there is 'loads more work' so quite hopeful. In fact I know there is lots to do as I put together the technical roadmap for the next 5 years, don't think I will be here that long though.
Client is a retailer at the 'budget' end of the market, so the theory is that if there is a downturn they will do quite well.
Job losses in the City of London as a result of the international fallout from the credit crunch are expected to be around 40,000, according to analysts.
The estimate doubles a calculation in December that 20,000 city workers will go as the consequences of the US sub-prime crisis echo round the world.
Budge up, might be a few more of us hitting the bench yet.
This is somthing that I think would really interest me... operational research and optimisation and the like. How do you get into it?
Me? I winged it. No, literally.
To be fair I did have some operational knowledge then I kind of fell into it. Its amazing how really simple skills such as "can import data into access and use sql to make sense of it" is needed. Thats all I do.
Then just make sense of it and tell the operation how to change. Automate stuff with some VBA
Its mainly BI work. Not going to set the world on fire at £300 a day but only 10 mins from where I live and almost recession proof (given I am saving more than I am costing and companies always want to save money).
Just finished my contract and taking a week off before.....a 6 month extension kicks in. Looking fine in my neck of the woods at the moment (J2EE).
Good luck to those benched. My advice, see if you can get work at a bailiffs or auction house, I suspect they might be needing a few extra hands in the near future...
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