Re: OT - Field - Contract or Perm?

Funny thing is many spend ages working as perms only to realize much later
and decide to go contract! :-)

I would say, stay the course bro and good luck!

Sadiq

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Gary Duncanson <
gary.duncanson_at_googlemail.com> wrote:

> It's interesting. Everywhere I work as an independent consultant the axe on
> the permies seems to loom large. My wife is keen for me to go permanent. My
> answer is 'where?'. You need to put time in to get the pension and the
> breaks
> and a decent golden handshake when they want you to go and as I say,
> everywhere I go it's the perinnial sword of damacles. Every company seems
> to
> be looking to lose people, and this is a real morale drain of perm IT folks
> every review. Honestly this has nothing to do with being an 'ace' at what
> you
> do.Companies still dispose of such folk. During my time as a contractor I
> have worked with many very capable people in the permanent train. They have
> local knowledge of how the infrastructure hangs together, it's background,
> and
> it's direction. I guess the MBA pie chart just says..perm = x, outsource =
> y.
> Get rid of perm. Any problems on infrastructure we can cook the books to
> make
> it look like the right decision to let Dave go who could compile perl. I'm
> independent and staying independent but I do feel sorry for timeserved
> folks
> who put out. It seems to me that more and more IT people will have to be
> prepared to be independent, and that reliance on a *good* CIO is key for
> those
> who want to stick around over the next 5 years in Fortune 100's. A lot of
> CIO's sell out it seems. Easier for the CIO to come up with the stats to
> axe
> and keep your job and bonus than fight to show IT investment in people not
> as
> a cost but an actual saving. This requires effort in the face of TCO.
>
> Thoughts?
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