Reply to: Permaboomed

[Francko]

Like all good contractors he spent it all on wine,women and drugs

The rest was just wasted.

[basshead]

I did the same 12 months ago. I can now say working for a consultancy is the worst type of employment possible. They try to sap your life and your morale, give you sh!t at every possible turn, dont support you when you need it and make you work 12 hours a day minimum, while not giving you time to learn about new technologies, but still sign you up for sales meetings to talk about the technology.

What area are you specialising in?

Solution architecture, Java stack mainly. Current ClientCo is a consultancy and I've worked at other consultancies so I understand where you're coming from. But with the dire situation at ClientCo, sweet FA locally and the longer term in mind this is definitely the right move at the right time.

**** me! 3.5 years at £400 a day (ie £2000 a week) and talks about mouths to feed and mortgage to pay blah, blah, blah so must take the first permie job!?

Shakes head in disbelief.

I've been looking for something for about 18 months now and its not the first job I've been offered, but yes, my war chest is not as healthy as it should be

I think my wife spent it

[Drewster]

I'd cut my cock off with a rusty bread knife for a 60k job near home, personally.

You should speak to BGG.
He wouldn't charge £60k.... allegedly

[Shimano105]

I'd cut my cock off with a rusty bread knife for a 60k job near home, personally.

[DimPrawn]

**** me! 3.5 years at £400 a day (ie £2000 a week) and talks about mouths to feed and mortgage to pay blah, blah, blah so must take the first permie job!?

Shakes head in disbelief.

That's only about £300,000 income, which, if we are talking London is hardly a deposit on a bedsit.

You need to earn 10x that to live in that there London.

Swindon however, well, how about a castle or two?

[Andy2]

**** me! 3.5 years at £400 a day (ie £2000 a week) and talks about mouths to feed and mortgage to pay blah, blah, blah so must take the first permie job!?

Shakes head in disbelief.

Like all good contractors he spent it all on wine,women and drugs

[BolshieBastard]

I have decided to return to the dark side.

My 3.5 year £400/day local gravy train is coming off the rails in a big way and there are no contracts locally in the last few months other than one over-subscribed £225/day role at a place which has signs outside that say 'Abandon all hope all ye who enter here'. No ta. There's not much within a couple of hours commute either.

So, with mouths to feed and mortgage to pay in mind, I've chased a permie consultancy role which is a move up the techie ladder, pays £60k and is all expenses paid with regular work from home. Got offered it yesterday

Once the market picks up I'll have skills that take me up a notch or two in rate. Or maybe I'll love permiedom again so much that I stick with it this time

**** me! 3.5 years at £400 a day (ie £2000 a week) and talks about mouths to feed and mortgage to pay blah, blah, blah so must take the first permie job!?

Shakes head in disbelief.

[JoJoGabor]

I did the same 12 months ago. I can now say working for a consultancy is the worst type of employment possible. They try to sap your life and your morale, give you sh!t at every possible turn, dont support you when you need it and make you work 12 hours a day minimum, while not giving you time to learn about new technologies, but still sign you up for sales meetings to talk about the technology.

What area are you specialising in?

[basshead]

why say all that?
You contracted at one place for 3.5yrs. You were a permie anyway.
Did I just swear?

I brought in a sub at one point and had two other contracts running in parallel.


Ok has HMRC stopped reading this now...?

Yes you're right, and they could see that

[MrNoMotivation]

They didn't ask "the question"

I would have waffled about security, career progression, challenges, family etc if they had.

why say all that?
You contracted at one place for 3.5yrs. You were a permie anyway.
Did I just swear?

[basshead]

What did you say to them when they asked you "the question" about going back to contracting when the market picks up? Well done, BTW.

They didn't ask "the question"

I would have waffled about security, career progression, challenges, family etc if they had.

[basshead]

Who are you trying to convince? Us or yourself.

Its a no-brainer from where I'm sitting.

[Fred Bloggs]

What did you say to them when they asked you "the question" about going back to contracting when the market picks up? Well done, BTW.

[Platypus]

Sounds very good - take it!

[FSM with Cheddar]