Reply to: The end is (not so) nigh

[Old Hack]

Depends what you're doing. Get into a company that's in start-up or hyper growth mode & you'll be to busy to worry about getting bored.

Not in my niche MF and it has always been thus; no matter how busy I am, it's always the same kind of work, just dictated by what I actually do, it's just the data is different; ostensibly, it will be the same work I have always done, using different standards, different tools, and different data, but the work itself, is always the same. Currently going to be designing tools to map data from one standard to another, design a new repository, and design a new way of displaying it all using current industry standard tools.

[MarillionFan]

Fook 2 years... I get bored of the scenery after 12months...I'm bored now

WTS - I did 3 years once and vowed never to do it again. 12 months ish and I loose the will to work for them and is the reason I started contracting. Just jumped ship after 14 months and it was 3 months too long. Now looking forward to the next gig although ominously, was told the project was for 3 years, and I have a six month contract to start.

Depends what you're doing. Get into a company that's in start-up or hyper growth mode & you'll be to busy to worry about getting bored.

[Old Hack]

Fook 2 years... I get bored of the scenery after 12months...I'm bored now

WTS - I did 3 years once and vowed never to do it again. 12 months ish and I loose the will to work for them and is the reason I started contracting. Just jumped ship after 14 months and it was 3 months too long. Now looking forward to the next gig although ominously, was told the project was for 3 years, and I have a six month contract to start.

[NotAllThere]

So far for this year:

Project 1: 8 days
Project 2: 12 days
Project 3: 26 days
Project 4: 24 days
Project 5: 6 days
Project 6: 18 days

Projects 1-5 in the same location, project 6 remote. Projects 1 and 2 I've already been paid for - client using up last year's budget.

Most of these are to end of March, so it's quite intensive.

[Platypus]

May 31st for me. Still working from home. Praying for an extension!

[norrahe]

Odd, innit?

I had one that finished on a Wednesday.

Equally

Mine also finishes on a Thursday 27 working days and counting

[Troll]

15th March for end of first 6 month contract at current ClientCo, then I'll know how much of the "we have work for you for 2 years" was BS.

Fook 2 years... I get bored of the scenery after 12months...I'm bored now

[BrilloPad]

odd the way extension dates work. one place was start on, say, 6th and finish on 6th. So next would start on 7th and finish on 7th! So each contract was 1 year + 1 day!

[NickFitz]

<checks contract>

7th February for me, it seems. That's a Thursday

Ah well, there's a fair-to-moderate chance of an extension.

[Kelstar]

Back to work on Monday for me after 3 weeks off, dreading it!

Current renewal is until the end of the month then there is talk of it extending until June or September 13. Best rate I have ever earned but the commute and work is doing my head in. Made the sensible decision to suck it up if the renewals materialise, would really like to move and that would be my deposit. I've stuck a schedule of a flat I like to the fridge to motivate me - hope it works!

[Scrag Meister]

15th March for end of first 6 month contract at current ClientCo, then I'll know how much of the "we have work for you for 2 years" was BS.

[MarillionFan]

You're really selling this, aren't you?

See my Narcissistic score.

[SimonMac]

omnishambles

I prefer clusterfuck

[vetran]

I am counting the days until my bonus announcement - 25th Jan. Does that count?

Already had that, appears despite all the sites I support making good profits as usual because Khazakstan seems to be 0.1% below sales target we won't be getting any!

Slightly better than the 60 people sent redundancy notice the week before Xmas, strangely the 'senior management team' that steered it towards the rocks seem to be immune, the victims are the production & support staff again!

[eek]

You're really selling this, aren't you?

People take one look at the (new) manager, and take pity on the contractor moving him somewhere (anywhere) else.