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Contract Inside IR35 = Anything Goes?
For the first time in my contracting career I've taken a gig deemed as inside IR35 with a bank. Notice is 1 month and the gig is 6 which was non negotiable. I know that being inside IR35 covers that aspect of being a "disguised employee" , "under direction and control" etc....
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Take a 45% cut post tax for a perm job to just about pay off the bills or wait?
If anyone is considering a break after finishing a contract recently and is wondering what the market is like, well it's bad. Really bad. Having been on the bench late last year, then started a new gig briefly to then be diagnosed with a serious illness that laid me off work from March to June (yes...
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Permie / Contractor Mortgage Joint Application
After a bit of advice, I have been contracting now for just over a year and I am looking to move house. My partner is a permie with a substantial income, however not enough to go it alone on the mortgage. We currently have a staff mortgage through the halifax. I am wondering what the best options are...
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One for our born leaders
Take the E test that separates those in charge from the people who will never lead | Daily Mail Online
so who is self obsessed enough to get to the top?...
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Emails
I took a day off sick last week and being the end of the quarter I had around 200 emails in my inbox the next day. Friday it took me 4 hours to deal with those and more that came in the during the night before.
On Friday I went away for the weekend and dealt with emails as they came in....
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First time Permie to Contract - What Rate Should he ask for?
Assuming a skilled senior .net engineer is a permie and earns £60k a year including bonus, etc. He wants to move from permie to contracting; first time contractor - he has read a good book about IT contracting so has some knowledge about it.
Should he move to contracting now; how is...
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Realistic contract equivalent to £~30k salary package?
I'm a SQL Server, VBA and reporting specialist analyst/developer, looking to move into contracting from a SQL analyst / scripting package of £26k basic plus 5% pension, full sick pay and 25 + all bank holidays.
I'm looking to know what contract rate would equate to this package, taking...
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Returned to the darkside and it's doing my head in!
Given the dearth of contracts recently, and the wish to get back on the housing ladder (and needing a small mortgage) I took a permie *cough* *spit* role a few weeks back.
It's doing my head in already....
CV is flying but there's really not a lot of gigs out...
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Contract or Perm
Looking for some helpful advise please. Have been operating through Ltd (outside IR35) for last 18 months and have 6 months remaining on my current contract. My old permie boss has contacted me saying they are looking for someone to do my old job and I have been his first choice, however it may be a...
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Stuck in the ever downward spiral of IT support.
I applied for a permanent site facilities manager role as I'm getting disillusioned with IT support, I have all the pre-requisite skills from previous jobs as well as the computer skills required to run the service desk.
Agent calls and thinks I'm over-skilled for the job, he wants to...
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