Life after London

[MrMarkyMark]

Factoring your invoices? You hired a company to chase the debt?

No, what I meant was, I had to support that 3 months debt.
If it had gone on much longer than 3 months, I would have.

[GJABS]

the realisation that I just sold 8 years of my life away, only for money.

Is there any reason other than money?

[oliverson]

Apart from London, in recent times I have had contracts based in Sheffield/Birmingham, Peterborough, Derby, Nottingham and Newcastle. Lloyds/Halifax and Coop Bank are always looking for people.

I printed out a map of my locality and marked out the companies I know of that take on .NET contractors. My house was pretty much located in the centre of it all with all the sites between 5 and 10 miles. I counted out 10 potential clients who have been looking recently, albeit through agencies. Guess I need to do some good old fashioned marketing and approach them directly with details of my offerings. It suddenly dawned on me that 12 years contracting and I have never needed to get my company website up and running. Shameful.

[BrilloPad]

One less competitor in London - good.

After April there will be far more heading out of town.- double good.

[MrMarkyMark]

One less competitor in London - good.

After April there will be far more heading out of town.- double good.

And.......hopefully bigger rates for London based contractors

[nomadd]

One less competitor in London - good.

After April there will be far more heading out of town.- double good.

..and there will be at least 5,000,000 Injuns to replace him/them. And all happy to work in London for peanuts.

[oliverson]

One less competitor in London - good.

After April there will be far more heading out of town.- double good.

Believe me, you're more than welcome to it. One of the privileges I have having lived in both places is a balanced and objective opinion. There's a reason everybody on the tube/commuter trains looks as if they've had the marrow of life sucked out of them. We dubbed it 'The commuter stare'. Same for the sea of zombies flooding across London bridge twice a day.

[MrMarkyMark]

We dubbed it 'The commuter stare'.

It actually a hard stare, cos we live in town innit

In all seriousness I do agree, hence, why I have the need for time out, on occasion, out of this .

[Pogle]

Another Manc here

My last contract in the North West was 2008.....

[BlasterBates]

You need a hobby.

In my spare time I'm a "Rock Star"