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The 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)' of Contracting

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    The 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)' of Contracting

    Hi guys:

    First post here!

    I'm sure I'm running the risk of being alienated off the get-go by starting this thread (if that ends up being the case you'll have to forgive me for creating a new account & commenting 'what a great thread this could have been' 3 months from now

    I'm 24, started contracting 2 months ago, and am totally in lust with it!

    I had some great advice due to a random encounter with a JP Morgan associate in a Domino's ("...join an umbrella corp.").

    Now, as much as I'd love to keep leaving it to fate to putting me in the same room as great advice (is Warren Buffett in town?), I'm going to take the path most travelled and ask the veterans amongst you (who are comfortable sharing) for, 'advice that you would have given yourself in retrospect'.

    For those of you who have never heard the Baz Luhrman adaptation: ‪Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)‬‏ - YouTube (it's pretty inspirational) or, for the readers amongst you, the original article: Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young - chicagotribune.com - this is what I'm aiming to achieve.

    I appreciate humor, so feel free to be smart asses ('...and the third path to wisdom: experience - which is the bitterest' et al), but the posts with blatant value are what I'm looking for.

    So, in closing - what would you tell yourself when you first started contracting?

    Thanks folks! Oh, and if this thread already exists - feel free to close it

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    DimPrawn or SASGuru are definitely having the day off. Who else can put in so much effort in a sockie post.
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      #3
      Darn it, I thought this was going to be a thread about sunscreen.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Scribble Squad View Post
        So, in closing - what would you tell yourself when you first started contracting?
        Don't join CUK, you'll only waste time reading mylunch threads and regret it
        Coffee's for closers

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          #5
          Originally posted by Scribble Squad View Post

          I'm sure I'm running the risk of being alienated off the get-go by starting this thread ...
          Not for the thread maybe, but using that phrase "off the get go"

          So, in closing - what would you tell yourself when you first started contracting?
          Do you mean knowing what we know now, or what were we in the habit of telling ourselves then?

          ( I'm a bit of a grammar nazi. )

          edit: Oh, rereading the post, it's obviously the first. I'd tell myself that it's no use earning more if my lifestyle expands to cover the extra income.
          Last edited by OwlHoot; 19 July 2011, 11:29.
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            #6
            Originally posted by Scribble Squad View Post
            Hi guys:


            So, in closing - what would you tell yourself when you first started contracting?
            Learn how to bleed radiators
            find out more about glaldiator films
            and hide my pron stash a bit better

            Last edited by norrahe; 19 July 2011, 12:35.
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              #7
              haha thanks for the activity on the thread fellas. C'mon, 'off the get go' is Americanisms 101

              Thanks for the words of wisdom. So thus far, we have:

              Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
              Don't join CUK, you'll only waste time reading mylunch threads and regret it
              Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
              it's no use earning more if my lifestyle expands to cover the extra income.
              I'd like to add: Impress with punctuality, dedication & smart work - not extra hours.

              Keep 'em coming

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