Job market forecast for 2025?

[Omega]

Fascinated by this thread as I have absolutely no idea what anyone's talking about.

I guess then we should not break the magic

 

[Omega]

I suspect the contractors’ market was tough, but now the government put tough conditions on employers. This may level things out, though at worse conditions for the business. Guess this is how you do things by not fully killing contractors’ market

 

[foxy]

We can only deal with the hand we are dealt, play the cards we have well and ignore the ones we don't have. I am having to change too.

Nailed it. I was a money chaser, the rigs in Singapore, the mines in Indonesia, and the Cooper Basin gas fields.
I took less money contracting through an agency as my wife didn't want me working away. When the agency started paying me when they didn't have any work for me that is when I decided it was better to have people working for you.
Change, move the goalposts, and look for other opportunities, there is plenty of scope out there.

 

[MashBag]

It is true that contracts always pickup first.

But that is the first sign of a rising market. Imo we are not there yet.

 

[MashBag]

. I was a money chaser

I was too, but nothing lasts forever. I set up another game, and swapped out.

 

[Omega]

Nailed it. I was a money chaser, the rigs in Singapore, the mines in Indonesia, and the Cooper Basin gas fields.
I took less money contracting through an agency as my wife didn't want me working away. When the agency started paying me when they didn't have any work for me that is when I decided it was better to have people working for you.
Change, move the goalposts, and look for other opportunities, there is plenty of scope out there.

And what other opportunities are there? I see some, but it seems to me contracting pays more even with breaks. I want a second income, but it can either distract too much from the main work, or the pay is not great