Reply to: If you're thinking of contracting in 2009...

[beaker]

I sorted out a new contract today at a higher rate, starting right after I finish this one! 3 more months of this malarky then I'll be on a beach in Oz

[Peter Loew]

And yet you have publications like City AM and Computer Weekly etc making statements that say IT contractors will be in a better position thanks to the CC because companies will look to short term (cheap-ish) staff to deliver their projects rather than expensive heavyweight permies.

It's all scaremongering BS. Just keep doin what you're doin.

[churkus]

this "credit crunch" and "recession" etc malarky seems to me to be largely a making of the media, thing is, why?

[Ardesco]

A whole 2% drop in budgets???? MY GOD I'LL BE RUINED!!!!!

Just think on a rate of £300 a day you'll have your rate slashed to £294 a day or if you are on a rate of £500 a day you will have to try and survive on £490 a day....

It's the end of the world as we know it.....

[NickFitz]

So who the flip is this guy, and why should I believe an IT analyst making a bold prediction?

Some bloke who used to program in COBOL and now coins it as a NED, apparently.

You'd think he could afford a decent web designer, wouldn't you?

[ratewhore]

So ....who's prepared?

Yes thanks. Just signed my 6 month extension on my highest rate ever. I'll be careful to add to my rainy day fund

[snaw]

IT analyst Richard Holway, explaining his bold predictions

So who the feck is this guy, and why should I believe an IT analyst making a bold prediction?

[gadgetman]

See you there

I'm off to Oz, just got to hope the gig holds out until I've got enough cash in the bank...

[The Lone Gunman]

so near me :-) I'm in Zürich.

Not far away. Plan to visit there one weekend.
Oerlikon (sp) by any chance?

[expat]

I dont mind the weekly commute. I am from NW UK and have never worked at home since I was sixteen (now 44). It is easier to commute to central europe by air than it is to the sarf by road or train and a lot more pleasant when you get there.

That goes for me too, and I'm in bloody Bedfordshire.

[ace00]

Currently discussing which of the clients 2010 projects could best use my, ahem, "expertise".

Fingers crossed.

Nice one - I have craftily schlepped into a project to end December 2009.
After that I'll have the pension sorted and it's all gravy.

[DiscoStu]

I'm off to Oz, just got to hope the gig holds out until I've got enough cash in the bank...

[BlasterBates]

I have done the Zugspitze three times, but not this vist. I contracted in Munich for 5 years. New Years day at Garmisch watching the ski jumping is a good day out.
I am near Friedrichshafen on Bodensee so doing more in that direction. Across the lake or up into Schwartzwald.

so near me :-) I'm in Zürich.

[The Lone Gunman]

Sounds good ...I was down there Penzberg little ex-mining village not far from Garmisch, fantastic place. Been up the Zugspitze yet ?

I have done the Zugspitze three times, but not this vist. I contracted in Munich for 5 years. New Years day at Garmisch watching the ski jumping is a good day out.
I am near Friedrichshafen on Bodensee so doing more in that direction. Across the lake or up into Schwartzwald.

[BlasterBates]

I am ignoring it.
WHere I am is about 10 hours travel from home so I am not bothering. The wife comes over for weeks at a time and we are weekending in Austria, Switzerland and northern Italy instead. What a bugger. Oktoberfest then ski season coming soon too.

[edit] I dont mind the weekly commute. I am from NW UK and have never worked at home since I was sixteen (now 44). It is easier to commute to central europe by air than it is to the sarf by road or train and a lot more pleasant when you get there.

Sounds good ...I was down there Penzberg little ex-mining village not far from Garmisch, fantastic place. Been up the Zugspitze yet ?