Giving up
Personally, I'm giving up. Reasons?
- The government department I'm with is offering a pretty good (for a permie position) package for me to continue. I get paid leave, personal and sickie, and I think the sheer novelty should be fun for at least a few days.
- I get HMRC and its hostility to all PSC contractors to now concentrate on my career's past rather than the present and future.
Sure, I get a 25%-30% drop in income -- but I'm going to suck it up. At least for a while: with Brexit coming I can see decent contracts starting to dry up, and with this scary-as-f**k HMRC hostility, I seriously need to take stock and see what's going to happen, to the country, economy and to me personally.
I have a foreboding that it's not going to be good, so perhaps the stability of a guaranteed income is not something to be sniffed at. (Besides, I have a family member about to shuffle off this mortal coil way before his time, so I'm kind-of morally tied here in Blighty until that happens anyway.)
But then, friends, I'm off; it breaks my heart, but this country is getting eaten, and at least I have dual citizenship and a place I can go...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
