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Giving personal details to an agency leads to slanging match.
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Originally posted by Cirrus View PostGlad to see you've caught up with the rest of us.
Flouncing about a passport image doesn't change whether you're a doormat or not. If you don't like the fact that customers call the tune maybe it's better to get a job with your local council.
The client has a need for someone with X skills and experience. I'm a person who can provide X skills and experience. Sure, the client can arguably hire other contractors with X skills and experience, but then so too can I find other clients willing to hire me.
The difference between most other people's attitude here and mine seems to be that they advocate a "sell out at any cost" kind of whoring, while I greatly prefer entering into a relationship on a more equal footing basis.Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostBut do they, though?
The client has a need for someone with X skills and experience. I'm a person who can provide X skills and experience. Sure, the client can arguably hire other contractors with X skills and experience, but then so too can I find other clients willing to hire me.
The difference between most other people's attitude here and mine seems to be that they advocate a "sell out at any cost" kind of whoring, while I greatly prefer entering into a relationship on a more equal footing basis.Comment
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His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostYes.
But I'm sure I'm doing it all wrong. Please, do tell me how I can be so much better like yourself.Comment
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Originally posted by BR14 View PostI have to admire the massive flexibility in your business model
Of course, also bear in mind that I didn't get into contracting for the filthy lucre (which is what most people seem to do it for - hence the whoring themselves to the highest bidder), I got into contracting for the autonomy and control over my own work-life and career.
Could I have done things differently over the years and gained more money than I have done? Almost certainly, yes.
Would I have been happier if I'd done that? Almost certainly, no.
As baffling and alien as it seems to some folks, money isn't everything.Last edited by billybiro; 19 June 2018, 20:19.Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View Post
As baffling and alien as it seems to some folks, money isn't everything.Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostAnd yet in over 15 years of contracting, I've had a sum total of around 6 months on the bench (ignoring time on the bench taken purposefully).
But I'm sure I'm doing it all wrong. Please, do tell me how I can be so much better like yourself.His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostAnd yet in over 15 years of contracting, I've had a sum total of around 6 months on the bench (ignoring time on the bench taken purposefully).
But I'm sure I'm doing it all wrong. Please, do tell me how I can be so much better like yourself.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Giving personal details to an agency leads to slanging match.
Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post6 months? Loser.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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