Reply to: Mini Boom (and gloom)

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Enjoy the ext and go and have a nice hot choc from Starbucks, I do miss those.

qh

I tend to make my own brews - keeps the money in the warchest ready for the bench.

[quackhandle]

Enjoy the ext and go and have a nice hot choc from Starbucks, I do miss those.

qh

[northernladuk]

Man you don't give up do you?

The joke has become so dry now that it sucks the moisture out of all the other jokes.

I was just making a point to SimonMac, not picking on you again...

[SimonMac]

Man you don't give up do you?

The joke has become so dry now that it sucks the moisture out of all the other jokes.

He's got a point, you've still not technically finished this one yet

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

The transition that NWP2C is talking about it going from perm to finishing a contract which is taking awhile

(old but gold)

Man you don't give up do you?

The joke has become so dry now that it sucks the moisture out of all the other jokes.

[Bellona]

give thanks for the extension.
My Gig should have finished end of November but got a weeks notice in September.
Market sooooooooooo quiet it's almost depressing.
What there is there is taking ages to progress to interviews etc so I'm readying myself for a long sit on the bench - probably till the New Year

[NickFitz]

Plough on through the next weeks, enjoy Christmas knowing you don't have to go back, enter the New Year refreshed and ready to find the Next Big Thing

[northernladuk]

My transition was quit permie on 25th February 2011, start contracting on 28th February 2011

The transition that NWP2C is talking about it going from perm to finishing a contract which is taking awhile

(old but gold)

[suityou01]

Absolutely, back in May I was lucky enough to receive several offers. It's a crap market at the moment - either the roles are fake or the rates are too low. Just as I was typing that I got called about a role.... Doesn't feel like a solid one though.

Same. Good validation, so thanks.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

What's your skill set? Market does seem to have gone quiet. The hardest thing I find is not to let the self doubt creep in. A quiet market is a quiet market and nothing else. Crap time of year to be looking mind.

Absolutely, back in May I was lucky enough to receive several offers. It's a crap market at the moment - either the roles are fake or the rates are too low. Just as I was typing that I got called about a role.... Doesn't feel like a solid one though.

[Mich the Tester]

Just be glad of the extension.

[suityou01]

Was due to finish in a few weeks but have now been extended up until Christmas eve. The extra few weeks should give me more breathing space to start looking in Jan. On the other hand I was hoping to find a new role but the market seems dead, the current role is boring me half to death. Oh well can't complain with an extra few weeks of invoicing.

What's your skill set? Market does seem to have gone quiet. The hardest thing I find is not to let the self doubt creep in. A quiet market is a quiet market and nothing else. Crap time of year to be looking mind.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

My transition was quit permie on 25th February 2011, start contracting on 28th February 2011

I think permiedom left such a bad scar on my life that it has taken me several years of FREEEEEDDOOOOM to get over it.

[SimonMac]

My transition is longer..... 4 years in Feb! wow that went quick

My transition was quit permie on 25th February 2011, start contracting on 28th February 2011

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

You have probably been doing it longer than me, I just don't whine as much

(today's whine in TPD not withstanding)

My transition is longer..... 4 years in Feb! wow that went quick