The Register: Guide to contracting

[d000hg]

So you want to be a contractor? Well, here's how it works ? The Register

I do like Dominic, he really gets people riled up in most of his articles.

[SimonMac]

So you want to be a contractor? Well, here's how it works ? The Register

I do like Dominic, he really gets people riled up in most of his articles.

The trick to dealing with recruitment agents is not to think of them as human beings, but as systems that you have to make act the way you want

I think its pretty much spot on!

[MaryPoppins]

An excellent summary, partic the bit about agents.

[d000hg]

Considering he works in recruitment too... in the past he got all the techies het up by saying that your worth in salary terms is not about how good you are, but how good you look to management. Equally true... but rather divisive in the comments

[Old Hack]

Me too, in the whole article.

[Bunk]

Can't argue with much of that. I might keep a link to that handy next time people ask for a quick summary of contracting.

[cojak]

Yep, very good.

[GB9]

The bit about rate cuts is spot on. You take it at the time and then give notice to suit yourself.

[vetran]

Ok who was it?

So you want to be a contractor? Well, here's how it works

What contractors are really like
If you want to get into the mindset of a typical contractor have a look at the forums on contractoruk.com
Never in the history of mankind has such a group of self obsessed, daily mail reading ******* been assembed

[Bunk]

So you want to be a contractor? Well, here's how it works

Never in the history of mankind has such a group of self obsessed, daily mail reading ******* been assembed

They've certainly got our number