Reply to: Strike Rate

[psychocandy]

If being a contractor makes one want to work all the time(it never did for me) then I am pleased I have gone permie.

15 days sick so far this year and and 15 half days sick.

Puts it all into perspective when you are sick mind. Screwed if your a contractor and have health problems.

If I ever went back permie then I wouldnt give a rats arse about sick (if I was). Used to worry about it when I had a few months off once but not any more.

[FiveTimes]

As a contractor, it's hard to escape the feeling you're losing money by not being at a job you could be. As a permie, it makes no difference.

I love taking time off, especially long nice holidays.

I could make the hours up but I'd rather have the time off. Holidays/time off are more valuable to me than a couple of weeks invoicing.

[Pogle]

I work to live and not the other way round.

[Dactylion]

As a contractor, it's hard to escape the feeling you're losing money by not being at a job you could be.

No it isn't.
I've worked as a contractor for quite a few years and I have never felt that I was losing money by doing what I wanted to do and had planned for.

It is called "work life balance".

[BrilloPad]

If being a contractor makes one want to work all the time(it never did for me) then I am pleased I have gone permie.

15 days sick so far this year and and 15 half days sick.

[TheFaQQer]

I missed the invisible bit in your last post that said you weren't currently sucking off a horse so I guess that's not the case either.

It's called common sense, or having two braincells to rub toge.... oh, silly me.

Are you so intimate with the OP that you know their income and expenditure for the year?

[d000hg]

I missed that invisible bit in the original post that explained that the OP had saved enough to take a year off. Silly me.

I missed the invisible bit in your last post that said you weren't currently sucking off a horse so I guess that's not the case either.

It's called common sense, or having two braincells to rub toge.... oh, silly me.

[TheFaQQer]

Working all year with no holiday isn't very permie.

My last permie job I regularly took the bank holidays and nothing else because it was neded.

Neither is earning enough to take a whole year off.

I missed that invisible bit in the original post that explained that the OP had saved enough to take a year off. Silly me.

[VectraMan]

Working all year with no holiday isn't very permie. Neither is earning enough to take a whole year off.

WHS. I take a lot more time off now I'm a permie. I have four whole weeks every year to waste.

As a contractor, it's hard to escape the feeling you're losing money by not being at a job you could be. As a permie, it makes no difference.

[SimonMac]

A long day is still one day.

I hate to think of all the unbilled hours, after 9 months they couldn't afford to give me a rate bump so told me to start charing the overtime, I think they now regret it!

Working all year with no holiday isn't very permie. Neither is earning enough to take a whole year off.

I run my books so that I need to bill for 8 months in any 12, this would have been 15 months all told when it ends with almost no expenses so although its not quite 12 months off its gonna be close if I want it to be

[d000hg]

That's 8 hour days ... Billed a lot more than that year before last ... ... Something north of 390 days ...

A long day is still one day.

That's pretty ******* sad, really.

If I wanted to work all the time, I'd be a permie.

Working all year with no holiday isn't very permie. Neither is earning enough to take a whole year off.

[mudskipper]

200 for client A, and around 10 for client B. Would prefer to do a bit less...

[VectraMan]

I managed a full year of working days once, not including Christmas week or Bank Holidays, so I think that's 244.

I was knackered. But I did get a big increase in rate about November and I'm sure the fact that I was there and putting their needs first was a factor. Since then I always made sure I had a week at least between 6-month renewals.

[psychocandy]

Like the joke about the contractor who dies and is standing at the pearly gates and says to St Peter but I'm only 40 its too early. Not according to your timesheets says St Peter.

[lukemg]

Best/worst I did was 272, lots of weekends and I would gladly work Bank holidays which are a PITA, everyone off, can't go anywhere.
Averaging about 202 over the last 7 years tho, not entirely by my choice but still coining it....