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You don't get visas for free Luke.

Yes you cover the admin costs of an application but that is to be expected, you cover the admin costs of going to any nation.

I mean without having to pay tax in the host nation. It is minimal bureaucracy...the Monsterrat application is a few hundred dollars and an online form with a photo in order to be resident for a year.

As long as you have a salary and a remote job..you can live there for up to a year.

@Luke97 - have you seen the amount of nations offering a free working Visa to UK citizens who are explicitly remote workers? Iceland, Montserrat, Grand Caymans, Aruba, Madeira

No one is advocating anything. It should also be the policy of this board not post absolute hyperbole.

Having spent considerable amount of time in Italy I simply do not believe that someone calling the police to report an IT worker will be investigated. I think it is complete hyperbole and if you truly believe that, then write an answer instead of a comment. We are not referring to Chiang Mi or other Asian locations.

Whilst some of the comments here are technically correct, I suspect that the reason they have been posted as a comment and not as an answer is because the authors know just how severely the answer will be challenged. The long and short of it is, as an IT worker, logging in to push some git commits or make front-end changes, no one in Italy will ever know you are working and nothing will happen to you. You take your own risks obviously. If commenters feel otherwise then they need to write full answers and stop using the comment box to push opinions and vague legal threats.

Destroyed? You absolute joker. Be quiet.

Ssshh.

Thank you for a link to a BBC news report indicating that the Trossach National Park authority have been convicned to support a single mine. Now if you kind kindly stick to the topic. Let me re.ind you - "Please point to the published documentation that says the United Kingdom National Parks PROMOTE mining." By your example we could find US National Park examples that promote the eradication of species and the felling of entire ecosystems and the complete strip mining of and damming the USA. Discrete events are not promotion. They are xommon sense discussions.

Please point to the published documentation that says the United Kingdom National Parks promote mining. In this regard, your own President is far more vocal and promotional of mining in protected areas than any UK agency. You continually frame these questions in a way that indicates the USA to be superior when the U.S National Parks service had had a disastrous record of conservation and had a bewildering number of species die under their custodianship.

For instance, how many rivers have the USA dammed at massive ecological and wilderness cost? It was only a little over a year ago that on 28 March 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Presidential Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth” that overturned several environmental regulations including a temporary (three-year) moratorium on the leasing of federal lands for coal mining (National Parks included). So really, what good are those Category II protections in the long run?

@gerrit - are you trying to claim that the USA has never conducted industrial work inside a national park or had economic stimulus override the need for wilderness protection? Your comments certainly allude to that by mentioning Beinn Chuirn. A cursory reading of nps.gov/articles/aps-v4-i2-c8.htm shows that the USA still allows mining within designated national parks subject to lots of legislative loops. It is inconceivable that a modern nation would cease all development ever on land designated National Park. Your comments appear to be critical of the UK for no reason.

Frank my friend. I am off to bed. Have a good night.

Do salary raise. If no joy then suggest the contract working. They save a bunch on pension and holidays and admin. They might go for it.

Congrats*

Congrata btw

Haha def do it after

:-)

If you know that already...you are ready to contract Frank

Exactly.

Over the course of a year, I might have only taken 3 or 4 decisions but that saved them a million.

I explained to him that I am not taking X per month. I am saving them Y per month.

My last piece of advice...I grew up poor. My dad asked me.."how do you justify charging £11000 a month. A month!"

There is a learning curve but it is mainly fear. Once you get over that...plain sailing.

Sorry mobile typing is awful

But the trjth

Theee is but my speciality is stakeholder relations. I find the room easy. I am a terrible engineer haha

Every month, save the Canadian corporate tax rate PLUS 10% into a savings acct

Once you are hired simply set.up your limited company, inurances and company bank account.

Whatever they say...grab a whiteboard and start showing them how you would fix it or doing a deep dive.

They will counter with..best employees have left, we really need an expert. You then ask, OK..what is your biggest issue right now?

I always reframe my interviews this way now. Let them do around 10 mins and then gently steer them to..so what kind of issues are you facing right now? Big company..you must habe talented devs...compliment them...

Once they start talking about that and you can give them support you are hired. That simple.

"What problems are you facing?"

3. Don't over promise. When you interview, steer the client away from that shit and ask a consultant question...

2. Master your area. Be a thought leader who could give a talk at Toronto Exhibition Centre or other venue

1. If everyone could do it. They would. They can't.

Absolutely but also have supreme confidence

My next contract which I start in 3 weeks is £600 per day.

And I charge VAT.

For me? Not sure canadian but UK I went from £39K per year to around £110K. But that is the absolute value...in reality, due to taxes I went from around £2300 per month to £7K.

My only regret is not jumping sooner.

Go in forearmed with a list of accomplishments and if no joy then hit the market and get what you deserve

Jump onto ITJobsWatch and grab some salary data

Do it. They can only say no and everything in life is a conversation

Tech consultants will provide a service contract but they don't execute the contraxt themselves. They then sub-contract or bring in employees

If consultancy is your thing then, if family allows, bang in a CV to deloitte or another mid-tier and see what they say

Are you paid to provide the client advisory services? Prob a consultant