I am looking to get into trading and was recommended to go in via IT contracting front office roles. I currently work as an IT contract mainly in web technologies (.NET c#/SQL Server/PHP/MySQL) but have no experience of working in the financial dector. It seems impossible to get through via recruitment agents but from someone I spoke with this sector is unpopular due to high pressure and unfavourable working environment but I have checked this out and it doesn't bother me and is more akin to the clients I have been working with in the past anyway. Do you think it would be better if I pitched myself directly at relevant organisations, has anybody here had success doing this and what organisations would people recommend for IT contracting in this sector??? I always thought organisations would be happy for people to do this as they would avoid agency commissions of anywhere between 20-40% but it seems people are getting extremely lazy in the 21st centuary!!!