Reply to: Advice needed!

[DiscoStu]

OI!

[norrahe]

Have you tried bleeding the radiators?

OI!

[DiscoStu]

Have you tried bleeding the radiators?

[MaryPoppins]

Nothing more useful to add than these lot, except yay, well done!

[Zippy]

Fix up the interview for B. You haven't signed anything with A yet, and they may put off the start date again.
If A come across with the contract (and a firm start date) in the meantime I think you have to go with them.

[thunderlizard]

I refer the honourable guinea pig to the answer I gave a few moments ago:
http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...te-urgent.html

[cojak]

Which city is it? That might make all the difference? If it is Manchester you want to turn everything down until someone offers you something there and take it... whatever the rate

Delaying A for say a week wouldn't be a killer, explain to B your under a serious time constraint. See if you can get something from that. I did that and they interviewed me at B less than 2 days later.

If not then as most say take A. This isn't really the best time to be gambling with gigs imo.

WHS - That's a good option... (and as someone said previously, it will take a few days for B&C/QDOS to review Client A's contract...)

[northernladuk]

Which city is it? That might make all the difference? If it is Manchester you want to turn everything down until someone offers you something there and take it... whatever the rate

Delaying A for say a week wouldn't be a killer, explain to B your under a serious time constraint. See if you can get something from that. I did that and they interviewed me at B less than 2 days later.

If not then as most say take A. This isn't really the best time to be gambling with gigs imo.

[mudskipper]

Can you be honest with B and tell them you've got another offer, so can they interview you PDQ?

[Tarquin Farquhar]

As a complete alternative - get both and exercise your RoS (get someone a lot cheaper!) and make money out of both gigs at the same time.

As mentioned in post #10 above

[FiveTimes]

take the offer, plus you wouldn't want to be putting on your friends for a long period of time by stopping with them.

[Moscow Mule]

As a complete alternative - get both and exercise your RoS (get someone a lot cheaper!) and make money out of both gigs at the same time.

Anybody would think you were running a proper consultancy Faqqer...

[cojak]

You only have one offer at the moment - worse case you lose even that!

WPS

Sorry Pogs - I'd go with the one that offered the job as opposed to one that might offer you the job...

[TheFaQQer]

You only have one offer at the moment - worse case you lose even that!

If you need to put A off, then when you get the written contract, tell them you need to get it reviewed, then wait a bit before getting it reviewed, then argue about a minor point (or it may need changing genuinely).....

Personally, I wouldn't put A off deliberately - if it happens naturally and B is a goer first, then great; if not, then take A and stop whinging about it.

As a complete alternative - get both and exercise your RoS (get someone a lot cheaper!) and make money out of both gigs at the same time.

[Churchill]

You only have one offer at the moment - worse case you lose even that!