North East i've seen so far are for Micro$oft NT, ASP type stuff.

date posted 13th August 2001 17:39

Really..............where....lol?

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig R. Belcham" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Newcastle / North East.


>
> >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 ;)
>
>
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