My permie has arrived. Should I make a honorable exit?

[oscarose]

Hi, My permie replacement has arrived. But I have another 2 months in my contract left. Having spent a decent enough time in this gig, it looks like my manager has given me an polite indication to leave as soon as the handover is complete.

I have nothing lined-up yet.

Should I wait for the contract period to be over or, make a honorable early exit as soon as the permie is up-to speed? What would make me look more professional?

2 month handover sounds ideal; chill.

[meridian]

I somehow doubt training the replacement permie is written in the schedule of defined deliverables. The fact you are being replaced with a permie implies that there probably isn't a defined deliverable..

That wasn't my main point. The OP needs to be careful of D&C, and to bear in mind that s/he potentially has a contract that runs for two more months but with no work being provided by the client. They need to read their contract and talk to their client, not just hang about and hope they can carry on invoicing.

[Eirikur]

This happened in a contract that finished a year ago. Permie replacement arrived, still had 6 weeks or so to go. Got another contract the same week he arrived and was gone a week later. Permie and loads of others in the same team were made redundant 3 months later.

[AnthonyQuinn]

Hi, My permie replacement has arrived. But I have another 2 months in my contract left. Having spent a decent enough time in this gig, it looks like my manager has given me an polite indication to leave as soon as the handover is complete.

I have nothing lined-up yet.

Should I wait for the contract period to be over or, make a honorable early exit as soon as the permie is up-to speed? What would make me look more professional?

hang in there and keep billing. this is the best time of your career. You abandoned all pretense to honour when you went contracting :-)