On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:35:50 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 17/09/2012 04:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I suggested contract work before, and I'll suggest it again.  It's a
>> way to get the bills paid.
> 
> I don't get that.
> 
> Currently, I am unemployed, which is a problem. It means I have to waste
> endless hours of my life vainly searching for employment. But
> eventually, I will [hopefully] find a job, at which point I no longer
> have that particular problem.
> 
> "Contact works" basically means "being /permanently/ unemployed". It
> means you spend two or three weeks per year getting paid, and the rest
> of the entire year desperately looking for your next contact. There's no
> way I could deal with that level of stress. (Not to mention the extreme
> financial problems...) I really don't get why anybody would voluntarily
> work that way.

Yeah, two or three weeks getting paid.

Oh, wait, no - my current contract started in July and runs through the 
end of December.  Unless I can't count, that's more than 2-3 weeks.

And it's not the only one I've done.

The money is very good (but it's all pre-tax, so here in the US, we have 
to submit a quarterly estimate and pay our taxes with that estimate).

So as is fairly common, you base your feeling on how something works from 
a completely unrealistic view of how it actually works, and then decide 
that it's not for you.

Jim

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