An interesting choice. Two thoughts come to mind:
1) Choose one. Now, how do you feel about that choice?
Most people feel buyers remorse - you are looking for
the reasons that you feel the pit in the stomach.
2) You are usually best off from a career perspective
working with others. I say this as the overnight shift
typically has fewer resources around and fewer
opportunities for promotion, etc. The pre-IPO issue is
of concern - you need to go further though. What is
their funding, business model, revenue and cash flow,
and opportunity for advancement. IF they are paying
the same salary but the options are bonus then you are
simply comparing one lay-off opportunity for another.
Are you better off with some great risk for more
opportunity that could get you the next position
faster?
--- RG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is all going to come down to your personal
> preference. I would gather
> from your comments that you are leaning towards the
> first one. It sounds
> like the route I would go even though I would hate
> the shift it's still
> better than putting on a tie, but you stated you
> liked that shift so that
> would not be a problem for you.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Traceroute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:52 PM
> Subject: Which Job Should I Take?
>
>
> > I was wondering if you all could share your
> opinions with me. I have a =
> > choice of two jobs to take listed below. Both are
> an increase in pay of =
> > about 9k.
> >
> > 1. My current Job: They are going to title me
> "network engineer" working =
> > 4 10 hour days 1 pm to midnight ( I love the
> hours) , but we work with =
> > cabletron, checkpoint and cisco. We have a campus
> and WAN support =
> > responsibility. Sometimes it's a bit slow when
> nothing is happening and =
> > I may get some "Win NT" duties, yuck.... I would
> have sunday, monday and =
> > tuesdays off and could possibly get some good side
> gigs. Last but not =
> > least, it's business casual.
> >
> > 2. New Job Offer: I will be titled a "network
> administrator" working 8 =
> > to 5 monday through friday ( I hate waking up
> early ), but getting =
> > exposure to ATM, Voice over IP and voice over ATM.
> Lots of MC 3810s =
> > about 50 or so with conections all over the US.
> One thing is for sure is =
> > there are NT admins to handle the "Win NT" issues,
> I really want to =
> > graduate from the NT support world for good. This
> company is also =
> > pre-ipo and although they are a huge company, this
> is a new "division" =
> > and pre-ipo makes me nervous because I have a
> family to support. One =
> > cool thing is that they are a cisco gold partner.
> One bad thing is that =
> > they are business dress, yes the whole tie thing.
> The pre-ipo thing =
> > makes me nervous because they say "yea when we go
> public, lots of the =
> > big wigs will be rich"... Does this mean new
> management takeovers =
> > etc...??
> >
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for any input.......
> >
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