OMO Help me get out of london

[Mark_h]

Problem is employers are finding it difficult to import cheap Indian labour. So if they can't outsource the development they now have to start recruiting native EU types which brings the market rate back up again and hoovers up all the mediocre developers who used to spend their days trolling forums instead.

If you are looking to re-skill, look into financial compliance as a niche. It's not sexy but they go to prison if it's not done so some pressure to do it and being non-sexy fewer people specialising in it.

Its not really much of a re-skill for me. Its really where most of my experience lies, well its one of the natural senior positions for a "risk officer".

[Mark_h]

With the FCA, Dodd Frank and Miffid on the horizon got to be loads of opportunities out there. If you can code a bit AND understand the market should be 911's and red braces all the way surely.

Yeah, doesn't work like that. Most of finance is an industry like any other, albeit well paid. Compliance is one of those things that banks have to pay for, not want to pay for. Plus to have to deal with gits who think they are gods gift because they lucked out. The people signing the pay cheques don't care if their traders get sent to prison, as long as they don't loose money or end up there themselves so they spend just enough for plausible deniability. Remember that they also profit, and by a lot more, when traders manipulate the market.

[tonyk]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fallout
...EDS who have loads of big contracts and will take any old retard on in my experience.

Good luck finding EDS these days - they were taken over by HP four years ago. And less of the retard as I had enough sense to take voluntary redundancy after 11 years when HP started getting rid of all the ex EDS people.

Chears Guys...........i'm still with them..

OP i have no input...sorry.

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

On the plus side you can buy a 3 bedroom house with garage and garden for under £250k within 20 minutes walk to the station or bike it there in 5 minutes. Trains are then 30 minutes to Liverpool Street.

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how much!! blimey makes Colchester seem cheap, and only 20mins further up the road, and the bonus is were even further away from all that towie sh!t lol

[Paul the 6th]

just a quick shout for chiswick: I've always slated london for it's ego-driven get-out-of-my-way atmosphere and lack of community feel - just spent the weekend in Chiswick, what a revelation, felt like a bustling village on the high street, people smiling at each other and chatting. Defo worth a look if you're looking to relocate but stay within london for work.

[JamesMio]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

On the plus side you can buy a 3 bedroom house with garage and garden for under £250k...

Wow.

If you're in the software game, you can work from anywhere.

Here's what your £250k would stretch to around these parts...

http://www.dgspc.co.uk/details.asp?id=23168

http://www.dgspc.co.uk/details.asp?id=23557

http://www.dgspc.co.uk/details.asp?id=24720

http://www.dgspc.co.uk/details.asp?id=25070

Straight up the M6, see you in 5 hours.

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

just a quick shout for chiswick: I've always slated london for it's ego-driven get-out-of-my-way atmosphere and lack of community feel - just spent the weekend in Chiswick, what a revelation, felt like a bustling village on the high street, people smiling at each other and chatting. Defo worth a look if you're looking to relocate but stay within london for work.

Next time your down let me know. I now live in Ealing just up the road but still work on Chiswick Business Park.

Originally Posted by JamesMio

Wow.

If you're in the software game, you can work from anywhere.

Here's what your £250k would stretch to around these parts...

http://www.dgspc.co.uk/details.asp?id=23168

http://www.dgspc.co.uk/details.asp?id=23557

http://www.dgspc.co.uk/details.asp?id=24720

http://www.dgspc.co.uk/details.asp?id=25070

Straight up the M6, see you in 5 hours.

Thanks. I am already sold on the not commuting into the city every day part. There is always some entitled wazzuck moving towards the traffic island deliberately so you cannot get past. Plus for that money round here you MIGHT be able to find a 2 bed, but it'll be ex-council. Actually ex-council are often the better flats, just that the whole estate is unlikely to be Ex-.

It does grate to work you watsits off for a salary that might just cover a 1 bed flat, paying 1/3 of your salary in tax (and another 1/3 in rent/mortgage), which goes to pay for housing benefits/cheaper rent for people who don't appear to do much with their time, but get the three bed flat cos they can't keep their legs/flys closed.