RE: FN-FORUM Newcastle / North East.

date posted 13th August 2001 17:20

>That about sums it up. There was similar conversations on FTN, last year
>(before that died) which basically concluded that people were simply not
>that interested and didn't care. However, I think the problem is currently
>everywhere (including London) so don't take it personally.

Yeah, the market nationally is pretty bad, I noticed that before I left
London... but the North East has always been a bit slower for contract
work. There seems to be a fair amount of permie work trickling by, which
Im not really interested in, but not alot of contract stuff (not according
to Jobserve anyway!). I dont mind working from home, as Im doing that at
the moment, but the money Im getting off the two projects im doing at the
moment is ok, but I need to harvest a few more clients under my belt if I
want to continue with home based consultancy.


>Thankfully I can shift skills (moving from perl to VB and Java and a large
>amount of high level consultancy) and have some old sites to relaunch. Look
>for a web-based support system later this week.

Heh. Well, Im mainly Linux / UN*X based, and alot of the contracts in the
North East i've seen so far are for Micro$oft NT, ASP type stuff.

> currently happy but quiet in Darlington.

Not too far from me then ;)

Regards
Craig
A quiet southerner up north ;)