As you know I've been finding market conditions more than a little tight. I'm happy for those of you that are finding the market buoyant and lovely and champagne and strawberries, but I aint. 
I clearly don't just rely on jockying jobserve. I have my own network of clients and have been working on that as well. The problem is to find someone who is buying. At the turn of this year I was asked to bid for a reasonably large project for a logistics company, working in tandem with one of my old companies back in my permie days.
I did the tender but was then asked by the company to provide them with architectural drawings, general approach to the design and testing. This was all in the quote, but I have been desperate enough recently to get into this and do the work "at risk", particularly as there isn't anything better on the horizon.
After many weeks of back and forth, finally I got blown out this morning. My price was good, my drawings and design work first class. However as this project is important to them they felt that me being the sole developer on the project was a risk, so they have offshored it to a team in India.
I totally understand their reasoning, but it's one hell of a blow to me considering the hoops I have jumped through.
As far as the UK market is concerned suity is no good because
a) Hasn't done any hands on coding for over 2 years so no coding roles for suity.
b) Good business analysis skills, so potential work out there but only if you've working in banking/finance/london markets.
c) Potential to move up into a PM role on a smaller project but again having not worked in banking/finance/london markets the market cannot sustain me at present.
I'll be honest, for the first time in 16 years, I am cacking it.
It seems no matter how hard I try, how many quotes, ITT responses, jobserve applications I do, I'm just not getting anywhere.
I clearly don't just rely on jockying jobserve. I have my own network of clients and have been working on that as well. The problem is to find someone who is buying. At the turn of this year I was asked to bid for a reasonably large project for a logistics company, working in tandem with one of my old companies back in my permie days.
I did the tender but was then asked by the company to provide them with architectural drawings, general approach to the design and testing. This was all in the quote, but I have been desperate enough recently to get into this and do the work "at risk", particularly as there isn't anything better on the horizon.
After many weeks of back and forth, finally I got blown out this morning. My price was good, my drawings and design work first class. However as this project is important to them they felt that me being the sole developer on the project was a risk, so they have offshored it to a team in India.
I totally understand their reasoning, but it's one hell of a blow to me considering the hoops I have jumped through.
As far as the UK market is concerned suity is no good because
a) Hasn't done any hands on coding for over 2 years so no coding roles for suity.
b) Good business analysis skills, so potential work out there but only if you've working in banking/finance/london markets.
c) Potential to move up into a PM role on a smaller project but again having not worked in banking/finance/london markets the market cannot sustain me at present.
I'll be honest, for the first time in 16 years, I am cacking it.
It seems no matter how hard I try, how many quotes, ITT responses, jobserve applications I do, I'm just not getting anywhere.
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