Reply to: Old contractors.

[Brussels Slumdog]

Retired Contractor enjoying the lifestyle

Then again, this current job is my semi-retirement anyway.

It sort of gives a shape to the day.

Don't greatly like the aimless way that time passes while unemployed/between gigs/ etc.

I like being a retired 60 year old contractor . When I was young I used to
do something called functional/technical IT work and I was paid about 450 a day

Then some idiot invented offshoring.

Now I wear dark sunglasses in winter and spend the day writing emails,attending meetings, talking to India or Hungary for them to do something that I could do myself whilst talking on the phone.
I am now still paid 450 a day

[Jeebo72]

Your a hard customer aren't you?

Trailfinders should be able to help you out, I've using the every year for the last 10.

Ditto, they are brilliant, and the one in the city is empty on a saturday so the service is exceptional!

[scooterscot]

Still just one place. There is no one place that I just want to head for.

Your a hard customer aren't you?

Trailfinders should be able to help you out, I've using the every year for the last 10.

[expat]

Been to Hong Kong lately? HK is it! Apparently...

Still just one place. There is no one place that I just want to head for.

[Scrag Meister]

This IT thing started as a hobby and turned into a career, I still feel as enthusiastic about it now as I did then. Hard to believe people want to pay me for messing around with computers

I'll still be doing it as long as I enjoy it and Plan B is healthy if I really want to wrap it.

Anyway invoicing is addictive

PS Will be 50 this year.

Same here, programming ZX81s, Commodore 64s was a hobby and now I get paid to program and still love it. And game in the evenings while the other half watches Eastenders, and Touch of Frost and all that crap.

Went contracting at 41. Shame, should have been earlier, if the ex-wife had had some guts and willing to take a risk with the move.

Plan to be doing it until I can afford to stop.

[alreadypacked]

Been to Hong Kong lately? HK is it! Apparently...

Heading there in October, I have arranged my first house swap

Apartment includes a maid.

[alreadypacked]

Clues in the name ... 72! Nah ... 37 ... fast approaching death ... got reasonably lucky along the way.

I like the George Burns quote "If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have looked after my teeth"

[scooterscot]

Yes, been there, interesting. But I travel for stimulation, not relaxation. So there is no perfect place to head for, it's the travel that is interesting.

I'm not knocking unwinding, it's just not for me.

Been to Hong Kong lately? HK is it! Apparently...

[alreadypacked]

but are all owners of beach huts boring or just the ones you've met?

I think it's the 'retired' beach hut owners, with nothing meaningfull to do.

HTH

[Jeebo72]

How old are you now? You've done well in that you've already paid the mortgage on 2 properties and have numerous other investments, at what I presume is a relatively young age.

Clues in the name ... 72! Nah ... 37 ... fast approaching death ... got reasonably lucky along the way.

[Mich the Tester]

The boring f#@% I refered to earlier, all had places like that or bigger.

but are all owners of beach huts boring or just the ones you've met?

[alreadypacked]

Not for me.

I think I'd buy a little house like this and volunteer as a a judge for the annual Miss Costa Rica competition.

The boring f#@% I refered to earlier, all had places like that or bigger.

[Cliphead]

This IT thing started as a hobby and turned into a career, I still feel as enthusiastic about it now as I did then. Hard to believe people want to pay me for messing around with computers

I'll still be doing it as long as I enjoy it and Plan B is healthy if I really want to wrap it.

Anyway invoicing is addictive

PS Will be 50 this year.

[ChimpMaster]

Had my midlife crisis at 28 to 35!

How old are you now? You've done well in that you've already paid the mortgage on 2 properties and have numerous other investments, at what I presume is a relatively young age.

[Mich the Tester]

Fiddle around with computers probably.

Not for me.

I think I'd buy a little house like this and volunteer as a a judge for the annual Miss Costa Rica competition.