Reply to: Internet People! Listen Up!

[Xenophon]

254 days left.
I plan on this being my last contract.
Plan B should be able to carry a decent salary by then.

It must have taken you quite a while to add all of those days up.

[ThomasSoerensen]

254 days left.
I plan on this being my last contract.
Plan B should be able to carry a decent salary by then.

[CptnJohnson]

I can canned 2 days after being told they wanted an extension.

I now feel like I've done the whole Contractor thing:

1. Jumped shipped with no job offer
2. Sat on the bench staring at a depeleting bank account
3. Met some 'lovely' agents
4. Had a few interviews
5. Got a job
6. Got an extension offer
7. Neg'd a rate increase
8. Got cut

Whooo

[NickFitz]

50 working days left, 72 including weekends and Bank Holidays.

I'm still wondering if the client being taken over will affect the likelihood of an extension... it would have been a dead cert under the current management, but who knows what the new owners' strategy will be

[BrilloPad]

I have 25 weeks left now - wish it was 25 days so I can get a decent job....

[Likely]

I have 1 month till contract end , do nothing to please noone , asked for 10 percent increase or else I threatened to leave . I am not scared of staying 3 months out of work since I could do some biz planning .. but then I ain't got wife or mortgage.

[Zippy]

Believe me, going to the dentist while snotty is worse. I nearly drowned last time.

I don't envy your dentist either (s/he'll be private of course)

[Xenophon]

[Zippy]

What
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Said

[Xenophon]

Windows Sharepoint Services?

What
She
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[Xenophon]

Windows Sharepoint Services?

Zippy is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.

[Zippy]

WSS

Windows Sharepoint Services?

[Xenophon]

Believe me, going to the dentist while snotty is worse. I nearly drowned last time.

So wrong.

[PAH]

Oh dear. I hope you don't have to go for interviews when snotty.

Believe me, going to the dentist while snotty is worse. I nearly drowned last time.

[PAH]

I'll not depress you any further by telling you how long it was between this contract and the previous one

There must be a point where it's more financially beneficial to be in a permie job than to wait months between contracts.

Fortunately most of my contracts have been so long I can easily change my CV to look like I've been a permie all along, should the worst happen. Though they probably bother to check references for permies, which may be a problem.

Anyway, not giving up yet. Got plenty of junk to sell on the car boot if I get really bored and skint.