I'm an Oracle DBA that has primarily contracted in the Investment Banking world.

Given today's economic climate this has not been an easy sector in which to pick up a new role.

I'm using Jobserve and increasingly LinkedIn to find a new role.

But for the last few years I have been taken on because someone already at the client knew me and recommended me for the role.

My last client was very much as surprise as the team that I went to work with remembered me from the Implementation of a Post Trade application at one of their clients, over 15 years ago (it seems that I make a lasting impression).

Prior to that I was hired by a client that had already used me twice before and the role before that one was a client that I had turned down in favour of another role, but they remembered me from the interview 18 months before.

So I will be finishing at my current client today, then I have an Oracle SOA Data Integration Workshop tomorrow.

But after that ??