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How long does it take you to get work?

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    How long does it take you to get work?

    ....from looking, to securing your next gig????????

    #2
    Originally posted by DGK
    ....from looking, to securing your next gig????????
    6.519 seconds

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      #3
      my last one (the one i'm working on now) took 4 hours and started within a week. could have started earlier but wouldn't some time off
      Thats the way the cookie crumbles

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        #4
        On average - a week









        (\__/)
        (>'.'<)
        ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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          #5
          Current one:

          Finished on Weds, Interview on Fri, start on Monday.

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            #6
            My clients have to put their names onto a waiting list
            How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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              #7
              I service multiple clients at the same time...

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                #8
                Originally posted by DGK
                ....from looking, to securing your next gig????????
                Couple O' Weeks.

                Then again I'm very choosey about which projects I take. Dont apply for them unless I think they are right and taking me in the direction that I want to go (no, seriously). I have a good plan B to fall back on.

                Last contract finished 4 weeks ago, to be honest not looked that hard just been out and about in the lorry enjoynig the weather. I'd rather contract in the winter when its rubbish and haul machinery in the summer when its warm and I can be outside.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Sockpuppet
                  Couple O' Weeks.
                  I'd rather contract in the winter when its rubbish and haul machinery in the summer when its warm and I can be outside.
                  Why, is it a convertible lorry? Does it have a targa roof?
                  Won't your Yorkie bars melt too quickly?

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                    #10
                    It has a big sun roof!

                    Well recently I'm doing machinery removals for a mate. Got to a lift last week was tramping (i.e. sleeping in the lorry stopping where ever the next load takes me).

                    Pickup in Gloucester, 4 hours POA waiting for the crane to sort its tulip out sat in the sun soaking it up. Take that stuff down to Nantes to be loaded bangalore bound (was knitting equipment) spin round and come back.

                    http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/a...8052007039.jpg

                    Not bad when the weather is like this.

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