Sallaried Contracts, How Much Can They Expect?

[Thunderchild]

I am talking to a potential employer and they seem to want to put me on a salaried contract. Now I don't mind being flexible but are there any limits to what hours they can expect me to work?

[Thunderchild]

Not that simple when you have no qualifications.

[fiction-factory]

Okay- stay where you are if you want certainty. Use your evenings to get some qualifications

[Thunderchild]

It's not that simple either. I am just completing one distance learning course and considering it was produced by a university it was hopeless with colleagues doing similar courses also saying they had difficulty. To do what I do you need a full degree ideally. I have seen job advert after job advert offering £25k but expecting degrees and quite a wealth of knowledge and experience from what would be someone just out of university. Clearly the majority of engineering job descriptions are not written by people that live in the real world.

[Thunderchild]

frow what has been explained to me this job is easy enough for me and he is more interested in competence than qualifications but then this is a guy with 4 people working for him, not a HR manager in a 100+ people company

[fiction-factory]

Maybe you need to take a step back and think about why you started talking with the potential employer. What were you hoping to achieve? If the job doesn't offer what you want with the certainty you want then you need to decide whether to stay or stay but keep looking

[Thunderchild]

Well that will be in tomorrows meeting with them.
What I what to achieve is a move that gains some pay into a better more organised working environment with people that have half an idea of what they actually want me to do. this place seems to fit all of that but I don't want to just get out of where I am for the sake of it.

[bednobs]

if you arent salaried now, how come you have such a long notice period? usually contractors can leave quickly

[Thunderchild]

I'm not salaried now I am waged. Salaried is fixed pay with minimum hours but no pay for overtime. Waged is fix pay per hour so if you do overtime you get paid.