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Old October 10th 08, 09:00 AM posted to uk.transport.buses,uk.transport.london
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On 10 Oct, 09:32, Paul Weaver wrote:
Typical contractors we employ in my office get about 2x normal salary
-- and that's quite low for the field.

If you're in a £24k job and spending 10% of your net income on
clothing, you need to get a new job.


Indeed. I've never been especially convinced by the logic of "I've got
two PhDs in astrophysics and only make GBP5 per week, so
$group_of_manual_workers should starve in the gutter"...

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