Reply to: Please Advise - im new to contracting!

[pmeswani]

Your figures are based on the assumption that the contractor is able to work almost every day of the year available to them. I'd imagine (especially in this climate) that many contractors will be working more like 180 days every year. The reality in terms of pay is therefore likely to be around halfway between the two extremes cited by pmeswani and yourself - somewhere in the 45k mark for a £250pd contractor.

That is pretty close to my assumption as well. Also there is the Employee benefits that needs to be paid for as well. Not all companies have it, but some do... and some companies pay an employer contributions to a company pension.

[BrowneIssue]

More than once a month...

once a month...

[DS23]

As a matter of interest, you f***king bored? seriously?!?!?

Your obviously not married, otherwise, you would be making love right now, and not looking for spelling mistakes on forums.

Take THIS apostrophe, shove it up your ass!

you think married people make love at 19.53?

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[Stan.goodvibes]

Welcome to the forum - you can expect ridicule with every question you pose - just ignore it - I quickly learnt to!

Oh I just get ignored most of the time - forums are much of a muchness, cliques and flaming and ridicule mostly. But its good practice for the world of being a contractor.

NewToThis its pretty darn cheap to get a ticket to Australasia and even tho the pound is becoming the peso our $s dropping too so it doesn't take too many pounds to hang out down this end of the world - if you have pounds everything here is 1/3 the cost you are paying for it.

Theres a few contracting necessities that I think most of the contractors here are agreed on - 1) you need a rainy day fund, and 2) you need to be able and willing to travel. Its just easy to get into that rut of loading yourself up with debt (well, it was) so you can't up and move, and not thinking far enough out of the square to consider ALL the options i.e. moving to NZ or Aus or even Abu Dabhi (the new Dubai) to work.

Once you decide to just go its actually a lot easier than you think. My general rule about this is to go where the jobs and the money are, but then I have no commitments so thats easy for me.

Course was good thanks - next month its Analysis Services then March its the BI course then the exam (gulp).

I only had two contracts in the UK - a 3-monther at Glaxo that went for 18 months until I befriended the ex-girlfriend of a manager (who was still burning a torch for her) who prompty terminated my contract when he became my boss (LOL), then a 3 monther that went for 4 years in the City. Best 'job' I ever had.

And all coz I decided to up and move to London for my career.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Well, so far, you guys arent exactly helping, but thanks anyway. im looking for assistance, not to be ridiculed!

Welcome to the forum - you can expect ridicule with every question you pose - just ignore it - I quickly learnt to!

[newtothis]

Sorry there NewToThis I'm currently in NZ and currently on a 3-day Reporting Services course that clientco is paying for, so best you have a hunt around here for threads about good agents.

Don't take this forum too seriously, these guys are just a bit grumpy coz right now most of them have got more chance of getting a building job in Spain than a decent contract in the UK. And at least Spain has sunshine...

If you don't want to hang around the UK waiting for things to pick up you could always do your OE to NZ or Aussie. We don't even know how to spell 'recesion' (see?). Actually apparently NZ is in one now, but not that you'd notice, apart from thing like petrol and mortgages getting cheaper.

Anyhoo, if you REALLY want to enjoy the contracting life, maximise potential contracts, minimize tax, combine working with seeing the world, and generally be able to escape the UK on a regular basis, then hang out in Aus or NZ long enough to get a passport. Then you can experience such pleasures as 7 Summers in a row (my personal best).

OK gotta dash off to course.

Pop quiz: would bit be taking the piss to invoice clientco for the days I am on the course AS WELL AS them paying for it?

Stan

thankyou for taking me seriously. currently, my financial situation does not allow me to venture to australia or nz, but ill ber that in mind.

let me knowhow you get on with your course. thanks again

[TykeMerc]

Pop quiz: would bit be taking the piss to invoice clientco for the days I am on the course AS WELL AS them paying for it?

Not at all if it's them that required you to attend said course in the first place.

At my last big gig they required all permies and contractors to attend a series of half day SHE courses amounting to two full days and all the contractors I knew billed them without question.

Oh and it's blindingly obvious that the OP isn't just a troll, but an illiterate troll at that.

[Stan.goodvibes]

Sorry there NewToThis I'm currently in NZ and currently on a 3-day Reporting Services course that clientco is paying for, so best you have a hunt around here for threads about good agents.

Don't take this forum too seriously, these guys are just a bit grumpy coz right now most of them have got more chance of getting a building job in Spain than a decent contract in the UK. And at least Spain has sunshine...

If you don't want to hang around the UK waiting for things to pick up you could always do your OE to NZ or Aussie. We don't even know how to spell 'recesion' (see?). Actually apparently NZ is in one now, but not that you'd notice, apart from thing like petrol and mortgages getting cheaper.

Anyhoo, if you REALLY want to enjoy the contracting life, maximise potential contracts, minimize tax, combine working with seeing the world, and generally be able to escape the UK on a regular basis, then hang out in Aus or NZ long enough to get a passport. Then you can experience such pleasures as 7 Summers in a row (my personal best).

OK gotta dash off to course.

Pop quiz: would bit be taking the piss to invoice clientco for the days I am on the course AS WELL AS them paying for it?

[PM-Junkie]

I'm gutted. I fell for it. It's a ...

TROLL

and clearly just a child.

I thought that was pretty obvious from its first post...

[Paddy]

As a matter of interest, you f***king bored? seriously?!?!?

Your obviously not married, otherwise, you would be making love right now, and not looking for spelling mistakes on forums.

Take THIS apostrophe, shove it up your ass!

You found the shift then!

[BrowneIssue]

As a matter of interest, you f***king bored? seriously?!?!?

Your obviously not married, otherwise, you would be making love right now, and not looking for spelling mistakes on forums.

Take THIS apostrophe, shove it up your ass!

I'm gutted. I fell for it. It's a ...

TROLL

and clearly just a child.

[d000hg]

You think it will take 18 months to form a Ltd? Anything you learn now will quite likely have changed in a couple of years, even if you don't forget it in the meantime.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

As a matter of interest, you f***king bored? seriously?!?!?

Your obviously not married, otherwise, you would be making love right now, and not looking for spelling mistakes on forums.

Take THIS apostrophe, shove it up your ass!

Touchy - not my fault you're semi-literate.

[newtothis]

As a matter of interest, where did you learn written English?

As a matter of interest, you f***king bored? seriously?!?!?

Your obviously not married, otherwise, you would be making love right now, and not looking for spelling mistakes on forums.

Take THIS apostrophe, shove it up your ass!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Even though ive had some good response's, ...

As a matter of interest, where did you learn written English?