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    Daily Rates

    I was just musing over my previous contracts and remembered that my daily rate 10 years ago was more than my current daily rate.

    #2
    Originally posted by Jubber View Post
    I was just musing over my previous contracts and remembered that my daily rate 10 years ago was more than my current daily rate.
    I was a student 10 years ago, my daily income was about £20
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      #3
      Ten years ago, isn't this roughly when New Labour came to power?

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        #4
        Counting...

        11 years and 6 days to be precise.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Jubber View Post
          I was just musing over my previous contracts and remembered that my daily rate 10 years ago was more than my current daily rate.
          I'd suggest you're doing something wrong then...
          Older and ...well, just older!!

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            #6
            Same here, though I was probably overpaid back then!

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              #7
              Thought this was going to be another poll... been a while since we've had a daily rate poll... Wasn't this the last one?
              It's about time I changed this sig...

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                #8
                Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
                I'd suggest you're doing something wrong then...
                Not at all - just goes to show this boom bust cycle. I was in Telecoms then - massive boom - network rollouts all over the world, plump daily rates, then suddenly at the end of 2001 - BUST. Rates halved.

                My current rate is only marginally lower than those heady days, but I work in finance now - and I wouldn't be surprised if the rate will be once again cut to the bone for a while very shortly.

                I've learned my lesson though .... this time anything (any rate, anywhere) is better than the bench.
                Last edited by Jubber; 6 May 2008, 13:38.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Jubber View Post
                  this time anything (any rate, anywhere) is better than the bench.
                  I'm taking this approach - there aren't to many banks upgrading their core banking application at the moment, and those that I know of are are in Belgium or Kiev.

                  Consequently, I'm on a reduced rate programming for a software vendor in South West London. Crap rate, crap job but it is VERY convenient.
                  ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                    I'm taking this approach - there aren't to many banks upgrading their core banking application at the moment, and those that I know of are are in Belgium or Kiev.

                    Consequently, I'm on a reduced rate programming for a software vendor in South West London. Crap rate, crap job but it is VERY convenient.
                    And one thing I would recommend to any noobie contractor is to save save save for a good couple of years, so that you have a serious wedge of cash that you can lean back on during downtimes. Even better is if you can invest that cash to generate residual income - how you do that is up to the individual.

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