Reply to: Evening everybody!

[RichardCranium]

all things said and done I'll pull something out the bag.

You certainly will. I crapped in that this morning just before I left.

Bye!

[ShadyMarkus]

Hey all, thanks about the Canada stuff. Appreciated! However, i've got thick skin and to be honest, I think all things said and done I'll pull something out the bag. Never failed yet! I'm just excited about the next couple of months to be honest.

Oh and Cojak and FiveTimes. Good to see some locals on here I actually studied in brum back in my uni days haha.

[FiveTimes]

Just thought i'd introduce myself to the forums. I'm new to contracting and had this place recommended to me by a mate. So here I am. My first post saying Hi. From the midlands area if anyone is local...

Hiya Shady, I'm also from the midlands area - working in brum.

Welcome and sorry to hear about the canada gig.

[cojak]

Just thought i'd introduce myself to the forums. I'm new to contracting and had this place recommended to me by a mate. So here I am. My first post saying Hi. From the midlands area if anyone is local...

Sockpuppet has done a good job of protecting your furniture, I see...

Hiya Shady...

I'm Midlands myself, but working in Newbury at the mo'....

[Sysman]

I was off to Canada. Contract signed and all that malarky and they were sorting out all the immigration for me.

If it's any consolation, jobs in far flung places have a habit of resurfacing later on. Good luck!

[RichardCranium]

I was off to Canada ... no longer going to Canada

Gutted, absolutely gutted for you.

[Zippy]

You must have been very disappointed about the Canada job (and missing your party)

Have a beer

[Sysman]

Ugh. What happened? Where am I?

Oh, sorry about that secret stash of vodka in the study. Nice comfy sofa you have in there.

[ShadyMarkus]

Realityhack: You missed the party??? That makes two of us I only said hello and this huge rush of people came flooding to the thread, turned up at my door minutes later, spilt beer in my pool and everything

On a serious note, to tell you all about Sockpuppet's "thrown into contracting" comment. Basically I used to be an Installation Manager at a telecomms company in Leicester. However, coming from a games industry background I was headhunted on LinkedIn for a Producer role over in Canada producing games for the iPhone. 2 interviews later and a bit of negotiating, that was it. I was off to Canada. Contract signed and all that malarky and they were sorting out all the immigration for me. All's I had to do was turn up and produce some games. Started tiing up all the loose ends here in the UK preparing for an imminent move and then at the 11th hour I get the message that the canadian LMO has not been in my favour. I got two different stories from the company from two different people. Not sure I will ever know what happened entirely but I get the impression that they were also meant to put a certain amount of effort into recruiting a Canadian person before looking overseas. Reading between the lines I'm not sure if that happened or not.

So that was it, no longer going to Canada I'm left working in Europe again. However, in my previous job I was already training my replacement. Hence, I'm left to go sort out another full time job, or give this contracting a crack. So here I am looking for my first contract

And thats me really....

[Zippy]

<zip opens beer>

How many posts before you are unmoderated?

[realityhack]

<splash>

<climbs into inflatable armchair, places beer in armrest, dons sunglasses>

Great weather today. Am assuming Shady is replying in retrospect due to mods. What line of contracting are you in then?

[RichardCranium]

Beer is in the swimming pool.

Cat

[Zippy]

Hi Mark. I'm from SW London.

Sorry about your house. Hope the neighbours like Iron Maiden

RH - Beer is in the swimming pool.

[realityhack]

Bloody hell! Sockpuppet said this place was fairly active. Didn't expect this many replies though. As for that being an invitation for you guys to come round....let me just say that my first post may have been cut short/hijacked by the puppet himself. Last time he gets near my keyboard

So out of interest, where abouts in the country you all from? Heck, you know where I am now.......lets see how far you all come from.

Hi Shady, SW London here, commuting into the City daily.
Any more beer left? Looks like I missed a miniparty last night.

Ok now play nice you lot.

Now now, you know we can't make any special concessions. I'm sure he'll be fine.

Thrown into contracting? What happened, layoffs or did you walk?

[Sockpuppet]

Ok now play nice you lot.

Mark is one of my mates who's just been thrown into the world of contracting.

Ironically a real sockpuppet advocating that he's not one