Bored with contracting.

[MarillionFan]

Bored bored bored.

Present clientco is full of knobheads. The managers and most of the directors are junior to my perm role and frankly I haven't seen such a shower of tulip since I did the Public Sector. I've now developed and deployed all of their reqs and have 8 more weeks to run.

Could jump into a long term BA role close to home. Easy money but it's an unfulfilling job doing BA stuff.

Got ten days extra dev work with third client.

In all three cases I could string work out and go slower.

Think I need a new Plan B which beco
es Plan A. Ideas?

[DimPrawn]

You'd be bored with a plan b in no time.

[thunderlizard]

Could jump into a long term BA role close to home.

Long term being, what, 4 months?

[minestrone]

I a bored out my tits contracting. tulip jobs working for tulip companies working with tulip code and tulip managers who have tulip for brains.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I a bored out my tits contracting. tulip jobs working for tulip companies working with tulip code and tulip managers who have tulip for brains.

WHS

[MarillionFan]

I a bored out my tits contracting. tulip jobs working for tulip companies working with tulip code and tulip managers who have tulip for brains.

WHS

The problem with long term contracting is that after a while you've seen it all and done it all.

You don't set direction or strategy for the business but you enable. You know what worked and what didn't. You can see where it will all go wrong or what could work. You hear 'but we've always done it that way'

Frustrating doesn't even begin to express it.

[RichardCranium]

Think I need a new Plan B which becomes Plan A. Ideas?

Sell furniture to émigré Russians? Or sledges to snowed-in Brits? Or Italian wall tiles with football teams on 'em?



Or set up an ethical IT recruitment agency.

Or recruit Bobs and set up your own outsourcing agency.

Or a dating agency for geeks & nerds (since SockPuppet never got round to it).



Am I helping?

[MarillionFan]

Sell furniture to émigré Russians? Or sledges to snowed-in Brits? Or Italian wall tiles with football teams on 'em?



Or set up an ethical IT recruitment agency.

Or recruit Bobs and set up your own outsourcing agency.

Or a dating agency for geeks & nerds (since SockPuppet never got round to it).



Am I helping?

No. All been done to different levels of success.

[Churchill]

To be bored with contracting is to be bored with life.

You have the ability to say who you will or won't work for, where you will or won't work, what you will or won't do.

If you are bored with the type of work you do then change. You have that freedom.

Actually, forget the above. Only boring people get bored.

[Spacecadet]

You don't set direction or strategy for the business but you enable. You know what worked and what didn't. You can see where it will all go wrong or what could work. You hear 'but we've always done it that way'

Personally if I see that the client is doing something wrong then I'll tell them and show how it should be done. I've never had a bad response