I plan to hunt for my next assignment and do a little active self-promotion. Well, for some time now, contracting has been haunted by the ghosts of New Year yet to come. First, we had the fright of IR35, then the Y2K projects started drying up. And to cap it all, no-one in elected authority seems remotely interested in the Euro. To beat the odds, I'll have to be pro-active in an uphill market.
Contracting is the art of selling skills to a paying client.
When the industry is on a high, there's not a lot to worry about. Once, it got me down. Now it gets me motivated. If a week goes by without an agency call, I have to do something about it. Time is slipping away and can't be wasted.