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knight0334
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 Posted: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:28:25 Post Subject: There are droughts, then when it rains - it pours. |
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Most of the time in my field of work a contract position is a turd to locate, let alone a company position. In the last 2 weeks I've had two jobs virtually thrown at me. I've been called by local engineers, their supervisors, and their district(multi-state) manager to take one of 2 jobs that opened due to retirement, or to be aware of another that may open due to the present guy's illness.
Now mind you, I've never sent in a resume, but I have contracted to those areas before which is who I contracted with upto 05/07 before Teeny died.. They are hounding me to come work for them as one of them. lol
Sadly though, both the positions open for sure are either 70miles away(Meadville), or 150 miles(Waynesburg) away from home. And the minimum starting pay is about $17K less a year than I make now. ...minimum starting, I know I would start higher having more experience than 3-4 of the 12 or so in the state, also having trained one of those myself 14-15 years ago. ...but I'd be away from "home" 5 days a week instead of the 4 I am now. And to top off the temptations, the local engineer(the one I trained) at the job 150 miles away offered me one of her vacant houses to stay at. And at the job 70 miles away, an ex-GF who used to contract engineer(I trained too) offered to rent/sell/rent-to-own me her old ranch house with 5-10 acres for dirt cheap compared to market prices.
grrrrrrrr! |
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Little Bruin
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Hellfire
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A full time position is better than a contract position IMHO. Seen too many times that contract positions dry up and they get hard to find. At least where I work, when it comes time for cutbacks, contract positions are the first to go.
Good luck with the decision, I jumped out of the contract world years ago because of that. Sure I took a good pay cut (like you did) but there are other benefits.
Plus you can probably play them off each other and try to get a little more money from them 
"To be honest, I'm considering another position at another location because they are offering me 10K more a year. However you are the preferred company."
Seen great things come out of it when you do that, just don't get too greedy and plan to take the other if it doesn't work LOL |
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Doctor Feelgood
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Ladies offering you places to stay and jobs... You must have a special skill set that wouldn't show up on a resume...
Sounds like you're in a pretty good spot right now! |
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knight0334
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| Posted: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:17:45 Post Subject: |
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| Hellfire wrote: | A full time position is better than a contract position IMHO. Seen too many times that contract positions dry up and they get hard to find. At least where I work, when it comes time for cutbacks, contract positions are the first to go.
Good luck with the decision, I jumped out of the contract world years ago because of that. Sure I took a good pay cut (like you did) but there are other benefits.
Plus you can probably play them off each other and try to get a little more money from them
"To be honest, I'm considering another position at another location because they are offering me 10K more a year. However you are the preferred company."
Seen great things come out of it when you do that, just don't get too greedy and plan to take the other if it doesn't work LOL |
lol... I thought about that, but both the new positions is with the same company, Windstream, just the positions are in two different districts under the same manager which was once my boss before..
And my present employer, Verizon, is limited on what they pay by our contract and the contract with the unions and couldn't play the game.
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knight0334
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| Posted: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:29:16 Post Subject: |
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| Jason wrote: | Ladies offering you places to stay and jobs... You must have a special skill set that wouldn't show up on a resume...
Sounds like you're in a pretty good spot right now! |
lol.. ...well. lol
There is a third job that may open in my home town. One of the local engineers has a brain tumor or cancer and is off with no insight as to if or when he'll return. Its with the same company that is offering me jobs elsewhere. I'd hate to see the guy's position open up because of the circumstances, but its the one I've been waiting for for 20 years. |
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