IT Contracting on Weekends/Evenings?

DiNZi

Hi all,

I'm 23 yrs old, I'm currently an IT Systems Administrator at a small Charity in Central London, I work 9-5/5 days a week.

I think I'd make a great Sales Advisor at somewhere like Currys/PC World but haven't had any luck trying to get in as probably my hours of only being available after 5pm on weekdays and weekends is too limited?

I was wondering if there are any opportunities for IT Contracting on weekends/evenings? Maybe things like roll outs or something similar, I want to boost my income whilst I'm young, lots of energy.

Any advice would be welcome, thanks!

agrinnall

It might be possible, although I've never come across anyone specifically requiring it. Obviously you need to confirm that your current job allows you to take on other work.

I would suggest that if you want to make more money (and why not?) that you would be better looking for a job in another sector that pays better in the first place and will offer the opportunity of paid overtime or call out. There was a time when I used to get as much of a third on top of my salary from on-call and call out payments, and as you say the time to do that is when you're young and can cope with the lack of sleep.

directdebiter

Very rare to find this in IT contracting - it is more freelancing work. IT Contracting is normally project specific and therefore evenings and weekends is too drawn out.

Reggie_Rebel

There are contracting roles for rollouts that involve overnight working.

You would have to consider the following

1 - When are you going to sleep?
2 - As the time difference between one job finishing and the other starting is likely to be tight how flexible can you be geographically?
3 - When are you going to sleep?
4 - Does you current contract allow you to have another job in the same field?
5 - When are you going to sleep?

DiNZi

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

There are contracting roles for rollouts that involve overnight working.

You would have to consider the following

1 - When are you going to sleep?
2 - As the time difference between one job finishing and the other starting is likely to be tight how flexible can you be geographically?
3 - When are you going to sleep?
4 - Does you current contract allow you to have another job in the same field?
5 - When are you going to sleep?

I work for a small Charity, I'm relied on quite a bit here, I have around 40 days annual leave to take.

I suppose I could do rollouts and take annual leave the following day? It would be pretty neat I'd say.

I doubt my manager would mind tbh, my contract is pretty basic, highlights pay and annual leave and sick pay but nothing about working at other places.

Any ideas where I could look up these contracted rollouts, I'm interested.

I could try and get a retail part-time job somewhere but I think being in the same field would be good for my CV and I could progress quicker.

Anyhow, if there are places that are in need of part-time workers, please advise, can't hurt to have a look and read the JD.

sartois

I work as an IT contractor, and if there are any contracts out there for evening/weekend work I am unaware of them... if you have the spare time in the evenings you are probably better off using that to improve on your existing skills. IT can pay very well, depending on which field you specialize in.

DKLS

In all my career I have only ever encountered 1 evening IT job, it was so cushy I was sad when it ended. £25 an hour to stick a cd-rom into a computer, run the antivirus software which took about an hour each PC, read a book whilst waiting, on completion of the test, put one of two stickers on the monitor and move onto the next pc.

wombleuk

In our company, PAT testing is always done at evenings and weekends; I guess this applies elsewhere too, to minimise disruption.

directdebiter

40 days annual leave :eek:
Is that your annual entitlement? Never heard of that many days before.

DiNZi

directdebiter wrote: »

40 days annual leave :eek:
Is that your annual entitlement? Never heard of that many days before.

I carried over 17 days and I'm entitled 26 days, so 43 days.

I told others too they are surprised lol, they are a small charity and don't mind carrying that many days over. I plan to hold talks tomorrow anyway, with my boss I'll be asking them if they can pay me for 3 weeks annual leave out of the 30 days.

agrinnall

DiNZi wrote: »

I carried over 17 days and I'm entitled 26 days, so 43 days.

Is that 26 days plus bank holidays? If not, then you're entitled to 5.6 weeks holiday, so assuming you work full time that's 28 days.

And are only allowed to carry over that much holiday if you were sick and unable to take the leave during the leave year, under normal circumstances you must take at least 20 days of your leave allowance.

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/calculate-leave-entitlement