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Fiddlestick

kabayiri wrote: »

They forget about training costs; admin fees; insurance; lack of holiday and sick pay; and the periods between contracts. Oh, not forgetting a lack of any redundancy payment.

This is why I left contracting and took a permie job just before the recession hit.

I could see what was coming and wanted to protect myself whilst I could.

Pete111

bendix wrote: »

That's the trouble with you HR-y type people. You're all sweetness and light and fluffy on the surface using words like sharing responsibilities and nurture and such like, but underneath it's all me me me, isn't it?

When it comes to hanging onto a (rather foxy) wife who can earn a small fortune then yes - sorry old chap

:cool:

Oh, and I don't do 'fluffy' HR Bendix - I have minions to do that bit.

kabayiri

Fiddlestick wrote: »

This is why I left contracting and took a permie job just before the recession hit.

I could see what was coming and wanted to protect myself whilst I could.

I can understand this.

I spent a number of months out of work in 2008. Work just dried up suddenly, and I needed an operation at what turned out to be an inconvenient time.

In my time out of work I used savings from when times were better to get me through the period, thus not having to rely on the state or borrowing.

If only Gordon Brown understood this idea of a rainy day fund, we wouldn't have nose-dived into the recession quite so hard.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

kabayiri wrote: »

If only Gordon Brown understood this idea of a rainy day fund, we wouldn't have nose-dived into the recession quite so hard.

Much as I dislike GB, and have always been a Tory voter, the fact remains that we entered the recession with the second lowest debt to GDP ratio of any G7 nation.

The debt was not the problem, and neither caused nor worsened the recession.

kabayiri

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Much as I dislike GB, and have always been a Tory voter, the fact remains that we entered the recession with the second lowest debt to GDP ratio of any G7 nation.

The debt was not the problem, and neither caused nor worsened the recession.

I still believe in rainy day funds, but this is just an attitude thing.

I agree with your point Hamish.

(sorry, I just had to read that last sentence back to myself! ; I'm still in shock! )

Malcolm.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Much as I dislike GB, and have always been a Tory voter, the fact remains that we entered the recession with the second lowest debt to GDP ratio of any G7 nation.

The debt was not the problem, and neither caused nor worsened the recession.

I completely agree w.r.t. debt to GDP ratio.

However, there is a structural debt problem. This resulted from Government spending too much during the 'good times'. Had the government been putting money to oneside, the countries structural debt would be less and jobs more secure.

neverdespairgirl

Svenena wrote: »

I'd be interested to hear people's ages and job fields along with their income, to put it into context (and give me ideas!). I earn 23.5k (aged 27), which seems pretty good to me, having only worked for minimum wage until graduating last year. I don't really expect to earn more than 35K ever, and whilst that seems (to me) a lot compared with what I'm now on, compared to what other people here are earning, it seems very low.

So, some ideas on what field I need to move into to earns lots more? I'm not technically minded, so IT, finance and engineering are out... any other suggestions?

What did you graduate in? Where from? Where do you live? What do you want to do?

ukcarper

kabayiri wrote: »

I still believe in rainy day funds, but this is just an attitude thing.

I agree with your point Hamish.

(sorry, I just had to read that last sentence back to myself! ; I'm still in shock! )

Funny that in 2007 the Tories were promising to match Labours spending not much of a rainy day fund then.

mcc100

bendix wrote: »

Mcc's comments had to happen at some point. The same sort of innate resentment and disbelief occured in the other thread of this kind on another part of the forum.

Even more laughable is the comment that if you're a good or high earner, you have no place on an MSE forum.

Who said anything about resentment? And who said anything about high earners having no place on a MSE forum?

On an anonymous forum you can be who you want to be.

Why feel the need to post your salary on a forum? If someone approached you in the pub asking how much you earned I'm sure you wouldn't reveal your salary....... but then again you probably would.

kabayiri

ukcarper wrote: »

Funny that in 2007 the Tories were promising to match Labours spending not much of a rainy day fund then.

Yeah, I'm aware of that.

I also wonder if the Tories may have followed a similar fiscal path had they been in power instead of Labour.

Let's be honest. People in power can so easily be seduced by all those mesmerising returns being produced from whizzkids in the city. It must have seemed too good to be true. (Sadly it was).

I wonder how the history books will record the boom time years of the noughties, after a period of reflection...