BoLOCs in IT?

[M7RT V]

Who are you, and where do you work?

Anyone with experience of contracting? Are you working locally or commuting to the big smoke?

I'm tempted to move on from my current work place and I'm tempted to look further afield and start contracting.

Any tips/comments/etc from the wise ones?

[SpeedYellow]

Gooby!!!!! Where are you???

[Beachbum]

SpeedYellow said:

Gooby!!!!! Where are you???

Dont think he uses PH anymore after the sin binning

[anniesdad]

Beachbum said:

SpeedYellow said:

Gooby!!!!! Where are you???

Dont think he uses PH anymore after the sin binning

[SimonK]

I used to live in bomo and contract (when i was young! lol).

Lots of stuff will have changed now (ir35 for one) but what i would say is it is a really tiring and longgggggg day commuting to bracknell/reading etc. (Certainly back then that where all the work was.) Nights out in the week are pretty much off the agenda for a start.

HTH

[Bing o]

I work with the IT department in a large investment bank in the City and commute up from BoMo daily.

Most IT departments I have come across are quite flexible about where you work (ie home working) assuming that you on the dev side rather than support.

If you are on Facebook, Gooby McGoobster can be found knocking around.

I think S Works dabbles in the same area too. (of work that is)

[kambites]

I work for IBM in their Hursley Laboratories (between Winchester and Southampton). Never done any contractual work though and probably not the kind of IT you mean.

[jb111s]

The grass is always greener when looking at contracting. Did it for a while myself but don't forget you don't get paid for holidays, don't get a pension & you can end up doing the less challenging projects someone's perm team don't want to do. Also the contract can not get renewed & then you have to deal with the low life that are recruitment "consultants". Market is very good at the moment in London for perm roles have a nose on Jobserve/Jobsite. If you've got the skills you can usually get a perm role for near contract rates with all the added benefits.

[S Works]

I work for a Financial Services consultancy in the City, prior to that worked as a Business Analyst and Project Manager (Business side of IT delivery) for several years. Feel free to email me if you like with any specifics and I'll give you my honest thoughts.