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		<title>Back to the drawing board with the electric pencil again</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2012/01/13/back-to-the-drawing-board-with-the-electric-pencil-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Start the year as you mean to go on. Not a bad maxim, of course. Except that I’m starting with the prospect of being out of work at the end of the month. Not, I hasten to add, that I hadn’t seen it coming.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to change the world of recruitment methinks</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2011/11/11/time-to-change-the-world-of-recruitment-methinks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to laugh, you know. I never cease to be amazed at the number of posts I see about contractors claiming all sorts of problems with, variously, notice periods (don’t need them, as I’ve said before), IR35-safe contracts (fine as long as they represent reality), the AWR (don’t start me on that one again).]]></description>
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		<title>How to bid for freelance work in a fog of ignorance</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2011/02/04/how-to-bid-for-freelance-work-in-a-fog-of-ignorance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2011/02/04/how-to-bid-for-freelance-work-in-a-fog-of-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.contractoraccountants.com/?p=3060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought that contracting is about the only job where you have no idea how much you should be charging? You go for a job, you talk to the agency advertising it and you have a two minute chat about the work required.]]></description>
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		<title>My new year resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2011/01/07/my-new-year-resolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is not to lose weight (a lost cause, I fear) or cut down on booze (shudder), but something that’s far better for the heart rate: to stop being get annoyed with Recruitment Agencies any more. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bring on Utopia</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2010/09/03/bring-on-utopia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.contractoraccountants.com/?p=2212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished last week by saying that we really need to start to think about how the contractor recruitment market needs to change if we are to get away from the commoditised, one-size-fits-all, dystopian model we are currently stuck with.]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone’s an expert</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2010/08/27/everyone%e2%80%99s-an-expert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another frustrating week in the hunt for the next contract. It’s clear that there is still a fair bit of work out there for the taking. Sadly it’s also clear that there are an awful lot of people out there trying to take it and competition is very strong. ]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s hear it for the cat herders</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2010/07/09/let%e2%80%99s-hear-it-for-the-cat-herders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2010/07/09/let%e2%80%99s-hear-it-for-the-cat-herders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a fairly quiet week this week. There’s been nothing to get me throwing things at the TV or harrumphing over my breakfast newspaper. This is good in a way, of course, especially for the sake of the TV set, unless you have to try and find something interesting to write about…]]></description>
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		<title>Looking forward, cautiously…</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2010/01/22/looking-forward-cautiously%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2010/01/22/looking-forward-cautiously%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.contractoraccountants.com/?p=892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Been some rather contradictory stories in the press this week. Nothing new in that I guess, but it does make guessing what the job market is going to do a bit tricky.]]></description>
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		<title>8 ways to start up as a freelance contractor</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2009/11/10/8-ways-to-start-up-as-a-freelance-contractor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contractoraccountants.com/2009/11/10/8-ways-to-start-up-as-a-freelance-contractor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Watts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mortgages for contractors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing is to think about why you want to go freelance. While permanent jobs are increasingly unreliable, the one certainty of freelancing is that you will be out of work at some point and you won’t have a formal support structure around you to help out. Although, of course, that is exactly the way many freelancers prefer it. So having decided to go freelance, here are the steps you take.]]></description>
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