Folks,
Just a quick update: not something I ever thought I'd be posting...
What with IR35, and a million other reasons, after 18 years I've hung up my contracting boots and gone permy.
It's all about phases in your life. I just made a pile of dosh on the flotation of TTPCom so I retire at Xmas at the ripe old age of 50. Yes!!!
I've taken a job as a senior technical consultant with a company called Internet Designers Ltd., one of BT's BrightStar incubations. The job is fantastic, and gives me the chance to carry on with my Linux work, alongside the experience built up after 27 years in the IT world. I start at Adastral Park, Martlesham on Monday 18 December. Gawd help me! Stonking salary, share options, paid holidays (YES!), no managers, working in a technocracy, and so on, I simply couldn't refuse it...
Best of luck. I have worked on joint projects with quite a few guys down at Martlesham in the last few years and they are a great bunch.
Ian
Ian Thompson-Bell
The Technology Partnership plc Melbourn Science Park Melbourn Herts SG8 6EE United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1763 262626 Fax: +44 1763 261582
mailto:itb@techprt.co.uk