Reply to: How do you earn your Contractors Badge?

[minestrone]

Over the ten years of contracting I must have crapped my way to a pretty decent car by now.

[alreadypacked]

Deciding you want to spend the winter in warmer climes, then finding a clients who will pay you (London rates) to work from your new sunnier home.

[blacjac]

3. taking a holiday and not worrying about it at all in regards to money being lost.

Just got to that one
An initial 3 month contract that got extended by 1 month, then 1 month, then 1 month, then 3 months, then 2 months then 6 months means I have worked a year solid without a day off.

Bloody knackered I am so when the 6 month hit my first email after accepting was to tell them I'm not working the last week in August .

[StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff]

being benched for 6+ months. De rigueur for that contracting badge of yours.

qh

Only if you suck

[Mich the Tester]

How do you earn your Contractors Badge?

I bought mine on e-bay;

[robin]

For me as I have not been contracting that long I think will be -

1. being benched and being comfortable with it
2. Turning down an extension even if that then means your benched and knowing it was the right thing to do.
3. taking a holiday and not worrying about it at all in regards to money being lost.
4.walking away from a job even though its fine but you've been there a long time and just want a change. (hate being in jobs too long which is part of why I went contracting)
5. Choosing the very short term job over the longer term one as that's the one you prefer and want.
6. Being able to turn a job offer down even if benched if you feel its not right.

[Scrag Meister]

Ftfy

A 5 minute crap, give me a break. That's not a proper dump.

[Churchill]

2) Your first £20 crap.

Ftfy

[shaunbhoy]

I've got mine at 25,000 posts mark.

They promised legal firearm at 100,000.

HTH

Yeah, but they also promised you a sofa, and look how that ended up.

[AtW]

I've got mine at 25,000 posts mark.

They promised legal firearm at 100,000.

HTH

[TestMangler]

Lying there thinking of Stuart McCall eh?

Long before Stuart McCall mate. Was probably thinking about Tommy McLean

[shaunbhoy]

It's an absolute must that you shag an ugly hiring manager (of the opposite sex) to get an extension. Even if she's so minging that you're gagging while doing it

Maybe that's just me though

Lying there thinking of Stuart McCall eh?

[darmstadt]

Are these anything like the wings earned by the Hells Angels?

[sasguru]

Not having a mortgage because you've paid it off. Anything less and you're a simple chancer.

HTH, BIDI

[Alf W]

Got all of those except never been benched.

Going permie resets the clock. Splitter!