Why is it.........

[BoredBloke]

Sometimes it seems like all your opportunities have come at once. But only because there are a lot more birds in the bush than in the hand, and some of them appear more appealing. Just take it as nice that you're in demand. There's no guarantee that the other role would have spun out anyway, even if it would have been a better fit if it had gone ahead. And, as you have a signed contract in-hand anyway, it doesn't matter much either way.

Fully agree, but as I have had to work away from home now for the past 4 years, having one on my doorstep, that I was actually up for 2 months ago before it went dead is just a little bit of a pi55er

[Gentile]

That the contract you want comes up as soon as you have started another? Just had a pimp on the phone for a role doing what I'm doing here but based in Halifax.....a couple of junctions up the M62 from me. These clowns had this role while I was out of work and it went dead. Now its back. So the chances are that they will be pulling a contractor up from london while I do the opposite to his commute!.

Sometimes it seems like all your opportunities have come at once. But only because there are a lot more birds in the bush than in the hand, and some of them appear more appealing. Just take it as nice that you're in demand. There's no guarantee that the other role would have spun out anyway, even if it would have been a better fit if it had gone ahead. And, as you have a signed contract in-hand anyway, it doesn't matter much either way.

[Mupps]

Same happened to me.
Now working 300 miles away instead of 20.

[realityhack]

It's an immutable law of nature.

Every single damn time I've taken a contract or accepted a dirty permie role, I've had numerous amazing opportunities present themselves shortly afterwards.

[BrilloPad]

IMO it is because people don't know enough maths. Ask people the odds of getting 5 heads or 5 tails in a row upon tossing 20 coins and they will guess 1 in 20 or something like that(if they understand the question). The odds are 25%. There is more chance of grouping than people think.

[BoredBloke]

Or if its still early enough, try pull MOO and get the halifax role.

can't really now...agreed a 6 month let on a flat down here for the duration. This should give good prospects at the end I reckon.

[Scoobos]

That the contract you want comes up as soon as you have started another? Just had a pimp on the phone for a role doing what I'm doing here but based in Halifax.....a couple of junctions up the M62 from me. These clowns had this role while I was out of work and it went dead. Now its back. So the chances are that they will be pulling a contractor up from london while I do the opposite to his commute!.

Or if its still early enough, try pull MOO and get the halifax role.

[Old Hack]

That the contract you want comes up as soon as you have started another? Just had a pimp on the phone for a role doing what I'm doing here but based in Halifax.....a couple of junctions up the M62 from me. These clowns had this role while I was out of work and it went dead. Now its back. So the chances are that they will be pulling a contractor up from london while I do the opposite to his commute!.

Contractor sat to the right of me got the very same call about a role in Halifax coming live soon, which had gone quiet.... He's local too.

[SimonMac]

Snap mate, shortly after I took this gig in Ipswich I was swamped with gigs for back home in God's Own Republic of Yorkshire.

Shrug it off mate as one of those things

[jmo21]

sod's law innit

[Mich the Tester]

I have a cunning plan. Grow a beard and agree with the other contractor that he should grow a beard; wear similar clothes to each other. Then swap places again and you can both work closer to home; nobody will notice!

[BoredBloke]

That the contract you want comes up as soon as you have started another? Just had a pimp on the phone for a role doing what I'm doing here but based in Halifax.....a couple of junctions up the M62 from me. These clowns had this role while I was out of work and it went dead. Now its back. So the chances are that they will be pulling a contractor up from london while I do the opposite to his commute!.