Reply to: Are you prepared for next IT contractor downturn?

[milanbenes]

LG,

it's not worth getting into this

We have nothing to prove

Milan.

[The Lone Gunman]

Don't forget tax: The mainland is much more highly taxed than the UK :-)

With good tax advice and the higher rates you still come away with more.
As I have said many times, I would love to be paying 1,000,000 in tax.


[D'oh]Yes, yes he is right, the amount of tax you have to pay is ridiculous.

[Xenophon]

Don't forget tax: The mainland is much more highly taxed than the UK :-)

It is full of foreigners too, unlike good ol' England.

No, wait...

[bobhope]

Don't forget tax: The mainland is much more highly taxed than the UK :-)

[milanbenes]

LG,

excellent.

Sas and Clipper,

you boyz make me larf.

Milan.

[Clippy]

There's mainland and then there's mainland Milan.
Most sane people would prefer Laaahndan over the deppressing Czech Potato farm you inhabit.

BTW Does your Passat still pull the crowds in that god-forsaken hole?

No - it's now pulling a plough as it is the only working tractor in the village.

[sasguru]

LG,


please, we don't want the herd spoiling our party on the mainland.


.

There's mainland and then there's mainland Milan.
Most sane people would prefer Laaahndan over the deppressing Czech Potato farm you inhabit.

BTW Does your Passat still pull the crowds in that god-forsaken hole?

[Likely]

Sorry Milan, what was I thinking. It is crap on the mainland, the rates are rubbish and it rains as much as it does in England. The place is full of dirty foreignors or british tourists and they all smell. You wouldnt want to eat the muck they serve as food and you cant get decent bacon anywhere. The beer is over priced piss too.
You would be better off in that London.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Is that better beans??

But you are a foreigner now .. are you being tulip-treated ??

[The Lone Gunman]

LG,


please, we don't want the herd spoiling our party on the mainland.


Folks, don't listen to LG, he's making it up.

Laaandan and UK are the best places to contract and of course .Net like DimPrawn and you're sorteeeeeeeeeeed.



Milan.

Sorry Milan, what was I thinking. It is crap on the mainland, the rates are rubbish and it rains as much as it does in England. The place is full of dirty foreignors or british tourists and they all smell. You wouldnt want to eat the muck they serve as food and you cant get decent bacon anywhere. The beer is over priced piss too.
You would be better off in that London.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Is that better beans??

[milanbenes]

LG,


please, we don't want the herd spoiling our party on the mainland.


Folks, don't listen to LG, he's making it up.

Laaandan and UK are the best places to contract and of course .Net like DimPrawn and you're sorteeeeeeeeeeed.



Milan.

[The Lone Gunman]

I have been working on the mainland for most of the last 10 years.
My industry is normaly English speaking so no probs there. I do speak a little German now. 2 years in Belgium but no Flemish or french.
After I have sorted my travel, lodging and tax I am taking more home than if I had taken the best rate I have been offered for a daily travel job and substantialy more than if I had taken a weekly commute to the South of England.

[Likely]

If you are feeling the pinch in the down turn why not come and join us on the mainland. Rates are pretty good and the exchange rate makes them better. You cna usualy weekly commute as easily as you can to anywhere in the UK and lifestyles are so so much better.
As you are earning in Euros the beers dont seem so expensive as they do on holiday.

Come on, you know it makes sense.

So do you make more or less doing the same work in the UK and main EU ( Germany etc ) and considering taxation ?

[LittlestHobbo]

do you need to be able to speak German?

[The Lone Gunman]

If you are feeling the pinch in the down turn why not come and join us on the mainland. Rates are pretty good and the exchange rate makes them better. You cna usualy weekly commute as easily as you can to anywhere in the UK and lifestyles are so so much better.
As you are earning in Euros the beers dont seem so expensive as they do on holiday.

Come on, you know it makes sense.

[Tensai]

...contracts never need references despite the agent BS you might hear.

.... unless of course you're going to work in finance, in which case they definitely DO want your references. Worst of all, they actually CHECK them