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[pmeswani]

Sounds great, stick something up (a post!) in Social and we'll go from there.

Central London?
Counting House?
Master Gunner?

Done. I know this sounds a bit selfish, but I wouldn't mind if the event was either near Marylebone or Liverpool Street, but I am happy to go with the flow. I have to be in Southampton on the following day, so I may be limited to a couple of hours.

[VirtualMonkey]

End of March for me but I think there's a good chance of an extension being offered should I want it. Plenty of projects on the go and new ones in the pipeline.
It's not all doom and gloom..........famous last words

[Scrag Meister]

*Mutters something about being a whimp* . How does the 2nd March sound?

Sounds great, stick something up (a post!) in Social and we'll go from there.

Central London?
Counting House?
Master Gunner?

[norrahe]

We could have a "We have been terminated in March" get together somewhere in London if you are up for it.

Hmmm , my bench budget doesn't allow for flights to London from cloggers

Though mine was more self terminate rather than stay around and things to get worse, I still had ambulance chasers from other departments

[suityou01]

anyone noticed a sharp falloff on gigs on jobserve over last week

No. April is round the corner with all those lovely new budgets to spend. Most projects start the recruitement process 4-6 weeks early so around about nowish the phone will start ringing.

Relax, have a pot noodle and forget about it.

[mrdonuts]

doom doom doom

anyone noticed a sharp falloff on gigs on jobserve over last week

[pmeswani]

If its before March 9th, then fine but after that if I've not got a contract, bench finance measures will be invoked and I won't be drinking anything but water until I am back off the bench. Sorry.

*Mutters something about being a whimp* . How does the 2nd March sound?

[SimonMac]

I'm on two weeks notice here, lets hope its a bloody big bench for us all to fit on

[Scrag Meister]

We could have a "We have been terminated in March" get together somewhere in London if you are up for it.

If its before March 9th, then fine but after that if I've not got a contract, bench finance measures will be invoked and I won't be drinking anything but water until I am back off the bench. Sorry.

[ChimpMaster]

We could have a "We have been terminated in March" get together somewhere in London if you are up for it.

LOL sounds like a plan.

A while back I saw my contract coming to an end 4 months before it eventually did. I guess I was lucky, because it really did take me that long to find another one.

In the end the original client wanted me to stay another 3 months, but that would have been the final extension anyway so I left to go to the new contract.

I'm always looking out, just in case, because I know my area is way too niche (i.e. dying --> dead)

[pmeswani]

Mine's the week before. Though clientco are trying to convince me to take on yet another project that no one will touch with a bargepole.

you are not alone

We could have a "We have been terminated in March" get together somewhere in London if you are up for it.

[norrahe]

That's when mine ends, too.

Expecting it will drag out for a bit longer after that, though. Another month, probably, which I don't like the idea of.

Mine's the week before. Though clientco are trying to convince me to take on yet another project that no one will touch with a bargepole.

you are not alone

[TheFaQQer]

Well, my contract is coming to an end on the 9th March.

That's when mine ends, too.

Expecting it will drag out for a bit longer after that, though. Another month, probably, which I don't like the idea of.

[pmeswani]

My CV has been out there for the past few weeks. The daft thing is that I was getting loads of phone calls a few weeks ago, but not any more. With the notice period I had (28 days, which I only accepted after a rate rise, though I did fight for 14 days), I couldn't jump ship sooner.

I hope things pick up. I am working on a Plan B, but it is in early stages and is a few months off from being a money earner, so I am not in the position to hit the ground running with it. I just hope I get a new contract in order to give me more time to develop Plan B fully.

I also need a PR wizzard, but I guess I will have to find the positivity within me to get my website done properly.

To makes things worse (other than replying to my own thread), I was hoping to buy a 3D TV for my computer. On a positive note, I have a new camera lens (150-500mm Sigma) which I am hoping to try out this weekend. Life's tough.....

[pmeswani]

My CV has been out there for the past few weeks. The daft thing is that I was getting loads of phone calls a few weeks ago, but not any more. With the notice period I had (28 days, which I only accepted after a rate rise, though I did fight for 14 days), I couldn't jump ship sooner.

I hope things pick up. I am working on a Plan B, but it is in early stages and is a few months off from being a money earner, so I am not in the position to hit the ground running with it. I just hope I get a new contract in order to give me more time to develop Plan B fully.

I also need a PR wizzard, but I guess I will have to find the positivity within me to get my website done properly.