[Closed] Joblesstrackworld

Good luck with the job hunting but on the plus side its sunny (ish) outside, think of all the training you can do!

Thats a bit ****y Mol me old fruit. Not a bad time of the year to be laid off though. Much in the pipeline?

Bummer, something will turn up, it always does.

Yeah there are a fair few things, and I haven't even been looking to be honest. Got some savings too.

Still - a bit annoying to have the option taken away but there you go, that's contracting!

Well if anyone is looking for perm back-end development jobs with C# and Oracle pl/sql can contact me (email in profile), either based in Cambridge or possibly Bristol. A few years of quality experience and decent pl/sql skills are required though 🙂

No C# here I'm afraid 🙂

Maybe iDave is after an apprentice?

I'm looking for someone to do a website for me, what sort of price am i looking at?, i'm not looking at anything too fancy but it does need to be done properly ie by someone who knows what they are doing!

Molly, me and you... together with our hard work and commitment we can take over the world...

e-mail in profile if you're interested.

Depends on the site an your budget marcus. Simple online shop for your single employee business, I'm probably not your man.

I'll be jobless at the end of the month but luckily have "long holiday" plans for August-October which I may extend. If anyone knows of any media-type jobs (video editing, photoshop, graphics/animation/motion graphics, sound design etc), even the odd bit of low-paid freelance work, give me a shout 🙂

No i'm not a shop or a single employee! more a of a service provider (R&D in semiconductors) I need to "sell" services and be able to provide links etc to other companies and institutions etc. i will need some degree of management and expansion as time goes on but its not really my background so am struggling a little and to be honest!. I got tasked with this as i have friends in IT but non are web guys so are of limited help

Email in profile, I am interested 🙂

Molly... if we fail at world domination I do work for an IT company and we're always paying put for f'ing contractors to help build our new web-based platform...

I'll see what vacancies are left in the budget and project plans.

Oh.. cool.. I am a contractor and I do web based platforms.. plus I have no agency to deal with 🙂 Cheers.

join the club. got laid off 7 weeks ago. trying hard but not a sniff of work since 😥

Could be worse...

[img] [/img]

giz a job. i could do that.

no seriously, after a while, you find yourself thinking that.

We're looking for a van driver in the mystic East. About 4 hours a day 7 days a week for the next couple of months, pay not large but we are cycling related. E-mail in profile.

2011 = Sh1t

molgrips, out of curiosity how long do your contracts tend to be? Also I guess they are spread all over the place what do you do live out of travel loges?

bad luck fella.....

what you doing on the weekend? your lady's folks over? fancy a ride on saturday.... switchback heaven and no "oh f~:k, don't tell the missus i was here" type trails, i think.

still, there's always the caravan...

Bad luck Molly. 🙁 On your way back to Caerdydd then?

Er let's see.. contracts have been, since 2002 - 3mo, 14mo, 2.5mo, 4yr, 3mo, 18mo, 6mo.

Accomodation for those, respectively, was - B&B and working train commute, moved house, B&B, moved house, commuted, stayed away on expenses, rented flat away with family.

Alpin - Saturday is a bit busy, could possibly do Sunday morning again...

DD - yeah I was going back to Cardiff anyway, the idea was to work from London for the same people then have a break for the baby and come back to Germany. Well.. their idea anyway, I was stringing them along because I really didn't want to work here any more.

I got the boot last week after 11 months of bringing in business, good margin, working all the hours possible and putting on a stone in weight through not riding as much as I should.

2 interviews next week and one at the end of the month are confirmed. So fingers crossed I'll have something to come back to after SSWC's and spend the time up to it training on the guiness

Thanks for the info. I didn't realise you could end up on a contracting for the same place for 4 years. That's pretty good if the place is well good!

Molgrips, if you're heading back to Caerdydd, get in touch. Any interest in teaching computing? I know of an opening.

I'd love to teach computing - not sure it'd pay well tho but it'd be great to try 🙂

I've now attached an e-mail address to my profile. Send me an e-mail, and we can 'talk'.

Go on jobserve or jobsite, select 'contract' and apply to anything you can do. But ONLY apply for stuff you've got good solid skills in, because they get loads of chancers who are sure that they can pick stuff up on the job (and probably can) but agents can't sell that to their clients.

😉

All the best molgrips - I'm sure you won't have too much trouble finding something. I'm currently still caught in the dilemna of knowing I should apply for stuff, but I'd really like another couple of months off first! 3 local jobs which would suit currently listed - on the one hand I should probably apply for anything suitable going, on the other, I'm getting the impression there is more out there than I expected (and not a huge glut of people with suitable skills in the area).

We're looking for a van driver in the mystic East.

thanks for the heads up sandwich but i'm almost as far west as you can go.

We're based in south leics and are always looking for good web developers / application developers (javascript/xsl or c++). Tend to be looking for perms rather than contractors - don't know if that's any help

I'm sure you won't have too much trouble finding something

Yeah it's looking ok so far (touch wood). Got an as-yet unarranged interview in Cheltenham which would be ideal really, or as ideal as a job an hour away could be.

Problem is I really want that job so it's making me get all hopeful and be less inclined to apply for other stuff...!

Saxon - YGM in a minute.

Cheers StuF - hopefully still contracting tho, and I'm not so hot on C++ either 🙂