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Originally posted by Stag Cozier View PostHaving holidays and *ahem* sick days without giving a stuff and still getting paid
Lunchtime Doom and Quake was always good back in the day, running some dire 386 with no dedicated GPU (cos they barely existed then) with a window about an 8th of the screen in the middle to handle the graphics.
Fully expensed Christmas parties til 6a.m.
Developer conferences in Vegas followed by 2 weeks personal holiday at a mate's in NY, all flights at least business class, and paid for.
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I only ever had one permie job.
I miss the roast pork baguettes, and the huge variety of underutilised computers coupled with a job that was basically "sit around until something happens" leaving one plenty of time to tinker.
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£50 perdiems. In Budapest, back when it was hard work spending £50 a day in Budapest.
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The 11 minute commute.
The easy life. Contracting is harder work. After a while in a permie job, you know everything and everyone there and it becomes routine and easy.
Compressed hours - can't beat finishing on a Thursday.
I'll never go back to permie life though...
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The closest I ever got to perm was a week's work experience during school. I miss sorting the post. And enjoying a nice can of diet coke every lunchtime from the communal supply in the fridge, then finding out on the last day that it wasn't a communal supply, & someone was wondering where all their diet cokes had gone.
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Playing Doom on the corporate network at lunchtimes.
Colleagues nearby, in a different dept, just didn't get it.
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The expense account I had when we had a stockbroker as a customer.
In a job before that the banter and an excellent pie and sandwich shop nearby. That place was run like a family firm. Only one person left in three years and that was to have a baby. Needless to say they destroyed that atmosphere by relocating.
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostCyprus was nice before they let in charter flights.
One of my favourite holiday experiences is hiring a 4x4 to drive up the Troodos mountains to the ski centre and ambling back down through the forest tracks. Done it a few times now.
You can do a similar drive on the tracks up around the Akamas Peninsula, you get some funny looks from the rabbit hunters as not many people venture that far into the wilderness.
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