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Do You Factor In Contract Length When Making A Decision

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    Do You Factor In Contract Length When Making A Decision

    I just wonder if you have two jobs paying the same rate doing the same stuff and the only difference is contract length what would you do?

    JobA has a 12 month contract
    JobB has a 3 month contract

    Personally I would take A but WHY exactly?? As a contractor you have no security and a 12 month contract can get canned so would you use contract length as a determining factor

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    Originally posted by joey122 View Post
    I just wonder if you have two jobs paying the same rate doing the same stuff and the only difference is contract length what would you do?

    JobA has a 12 month contract
    JobB has a 3 month contract

    Personally I would take A but WHY exactly?? As a contractor you have no security and a 12 month contract can get canned so would you use contract length as a determining factor
    Contracts can get canned. Contracts can also get extended.
    A twelve month contract is a sort of statement of intent by the client, they dont often set out to con you, so, all things being equal, go for the twelve monther


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      #3
      Originally posted by joey122 View Post
      I just wonder if you have two jobs paying the same rate doing the same stuff and the only difference is contract length what would you do?

      JobA has a 12 month contract
      JobB has a 3 month contract

      Personally I would take A but WHY exactly?? As a contractor you have no security and a 12 month contract can get canned so would you use contract length as a determining factor
      Depends how much I want to be doing the work that is on offer, and potentially what new technologies might be being adopted soon.

      For example, if I thought that customers were going to be adopting Fusion in the next month or so (which obviously, they aren't), I might be more inclined to take the shorter contract and hope to get into the new technology early (on the basis that no-one else knows it, so I'm still as attractive commercially as any other contractor).

      Having been offered work that I don't really want to be doing in the past, if there were two roles on offer doing the same thing, I might take the shorter one and hope that when I was out of there, I might get back into something that I actually want to be doing.
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