What the hell is "plan B"?

[Danglekt]

I've resisted asking for a while now, but what is "plan B" people refer to?

I assume it's a second business venture away from contracting as opposed to some aggressive takeover of the dodgy rapper bloke?

As it is a Friday, and this is in General I am not holding out much hope for many sensible answers, but, you know - surprise me

[SimonMac]

He is a rapper from London

[Unix]

I've resisted asking for a while now, but what is "plan B" people refer to?

I assume it's a second business venture away from contracting as opposed to some aggressive takeover of the dodgy rapper bloke?

As it is a Friday, and this is in General I am not holding out much hope for many sensible answers, but, you know - surprise me

B comes after A so it means the second plan if the first one doesn't go to ehm plan.

HTH

[WTFH]

Plan B: What to do if contracting doesn't work out. Not something you are currently doing.

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

My plan B is working for London underground seems to be a holiday / I like blue outfits / looks p*ss easy.

[NickFitz]

I expressed my views on this terminology in TPD in 2008:

I can never understand why people refer to the day job they're trying to escape from as "Plan A" and the escape plan as "Plan B" - surely the latter is more important to them than the former, or they wouldn't want to escape in the first place.

So as far as I'm concerned, working for clients is Plan B - it just happens to be necessary to finance my survival in reasonable comfort while I work on Plan A

(I think AtW has the same attitude, actually - just with added squirrels.)

[northernladuk]

I've resisted asking for a while now, but what is "plan B" people refer to?

I assume it's a second business venture away from contracting as opposed to some aggressive takeover of the dodgy rapper bloke?

As it is a Friday, and this is in General I am not holding out much hope for many sensible answers, but, you know - surprise me

And so you shouldn't with a question like that lol.

[WTFH]

To follow on from my earlier comment, I've not got a plan B, because I am a contractor. If you've got a plan B, then you're probably NCOTBAC

[fullyautomatix]

Plan B is just a term that some posters here use to show off that they are clever and are minted. Reality is far detached. In fact the only successful poster on this forum is AtW, everybody else is trying desperately to match him.

[norrahe]

My plan B makes no money at all (yet) but occasionally I get free BBQ meat and vouchers from local kitchen shops.

It stops me being miserable about having to stick with my plan A for the foreseeable furture.