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    Contract of the week....

    Wage £5.85 Per Hour

    Location PETERLEE, County Durham SR8

    Duration Temporary

    Description

    Our client is a top automotive component manufacturing company with worldwide representation and a reputation second to none. They are currently looking for a temporary IT professional to join the team for probably a 4 month period.The role will be to write and develop a costing database that can be rolled out across the organisation. The role will be to. prepare, from ground level up, a fully functioning database using Access.This is an ideal opportunity for someone with Access knowledge looking to gain experience in this temporary position with an organisation that has an excellent reputation for success in its field.



    Anyone fancy a trip to the northeast?

    #2
    Somebody will do it for that.

    Probably a redundant NHS call centre manager. Or something.
    ‎"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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      #3
      Originally posted by crimdon View Post
      Wage £5.85 Per Hour

      Location PETERLEE, County Durham SR8

      Duration Temporary

      Description

      Our client is a top automotive component manufacturing company with worldwide representation and a reputation second to none. They are currently looking for a temporary IT professional to join the team for probably a 4 month period.The role will be to write and develop a costing database that can be rolled out across the organisation. The role will be to. prepare, from ground level up, a fully functioning database using Access.This is an ideal opportunity for someone with Access knowledge looking to gain experience in this temporary position with an organisation that has an excellent reputation for success in its field.

      Anyone fancy a trip to the northeast?
      I think we might need to get used to the fact that being able to use MS office and apply some knowledge of relational database design isn't a ticket on the gravy train. There are plenty of people who aren't "highly paid IT contractors" (i.e bright school leavers & recent graddies who have a clue but are struggling to find work) but they can do this sort of stuff and although it might not be what they aspire to they'll glad of the money and the experience. I had similar temp jobs myself when I first graduated, including amongst other things working in a PC factory doing quality control and diagnosing component failures for £3.50/hr.

      Times are hard, and it's better to eat humble pie than starve.
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        #4
        Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
        Somebody will do it for that.

        Probably a redundant NHS call centre manager. Or something.
        Agreed. Carefully costed to be preferable to dunking your snout into the ever-diminishing benefits trough.
        “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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          #5
          That is very similar to my second ever contract. I got £6.25/hr

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            #6
            I spent a couple of months fixing defective monitors a few years back. All the tubes were skewed, fixing them involved pulling the back off, fiddling with the beam guides and applying adhesive magnets to adjust the picture. £3.50 hour and the opportunity to electricute yourself.
            "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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              #7
              Originally posted by DaveB View Post
              adhesive magnets
              Aren't they all?

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                #8
                When I was a desperate student, I worked at the BAT ciggie factory in Southampton as a general dogsbody.

                I forget how much it was an hour, but it wasn't enough as I used to come home stinking of tobacco. Grim.
                ‎"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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                  #9
                  Originally posted by DaveB View Post
                  I spent a couple of months fixing defective monitors a few years back. All the tubes were skewed, fixing them involved pulling the back off, fiddling with the beam guides and applying adhesive magnets to adjust the picture. £3.50 hour and the opportunity to electricute yourself.
                  Trouble at mill! One on't cross beams gone owt askew on't treadle!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    Indeed.

                    Fixing fruit machines started out at £5.50/hr.

                    I then had a rate increase to a whole £6/hr.

                    But, as mentioned above, it a) gave me something (tedious, but in some ways quite fun) to do b) filled a hole in the CV and c) provided some pin money.
                    And you could 'dip' a few quid when you were round the back with the door off.
                    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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