help me decide
The guy hiring had heard all about me from one of the teachers at the school where I work and was super pumped to hire me. So I got the job pretty much instantly on sitting down and correctly answering two or three technical questions. And now I have no friggin clue what I want to do.
If anyone has ANY opinion here I'd love to hear it.
It's a factory that makes custom windows and has a ton of industrial factory equipment. The IT team is one boss dude thats an electrical engineer and appeared to make a ton of mad scientist circuit boards and two programmers that are both named mark and I would be the actual Computer IT person.
PROS:
-They are wicked intensive with their IT budget and everything they have is new and state of the art and they turn over all the equipment every three years. So no more struggling with 11 year old equipment. Since 2005 they have spent a million dollars on computer systems.
-The pay is 38,000. (I am making ~28,500 right now...)
- Everyone seemed nice enough, my boss was a bit hyper but not offensively so, not everyone there was 60 year old and there was other IT people I might get along with.
CONS:
-Belfast is even more isolated than Bangor. I don't have to live right in Belfast but everything there is pretty rural and my Hikikomori tendencies don't need me moving farther away from people. At the same time it's still this same area and my life isn't going to come together until I am physically away from certain people. Moving to Portland was my goal and this is moving to the woods instead. Actually google maps indicates it's only 4 minutes closer to Portland than here is due to lack of highways!
-I am not super comfortable with working with industrial stuff. It's a factory and it's safe as is possible and I wouldn't be working a machine or anything but the guy was clear that people DO get hurt, the "no injuries for ___ days" sign was only at 109 days. He said the worst he ever gets is glass splinters(!!!) but that on a fairly regular basis the vacuum lifts cause glass to EXPLODE and he did point to glass on the floor around from that happening and he told a story about the same sort of machine they use cutting a woman in half at another factory. This also means it was loud as friggin heck. Even in the offices you could hear the machinery, and in the factory I had to ask if we could move somewhere else the noise was so loud. I think I could get used to it, but we walked in between a bunch of machines and welders and stuff and I hated that.
-My current low pay is basically the result of working a very small number of hours. 35 hours a week and 11 months a year. That is silly and I am absolutely okay with working more hours. But all done out I make 16.95 an hour. This job is more money take home for sure, nearly 10,000 more. But it is also 10 more hours a week MINIMUM (along with being all year) He made it really clear that since the machines never shut down during working hours a lot of IT stuff is at night or on weekends so it's going to often be a lot more than 45 a week. That DOES mean that per hour I would be making LESS than what I make now. 16.25 an hour, just far more hours. I don't know if I like that! It's more take home money but only due to vastly increased hours. That's 620 more hours a year I'd be working! I don't know how comfortable I am with the nights and weekends being additional and it's salary so that wouldn't mean more income.
-I've joked that I don't ever want another job where I put ink in printers. I don't really hate ink that much but it's a joke about not wanting to do computer janitor stuff, and this job was described as 'from dishwasher to head chef" of IT, and I was kinda looking for something in the "sous chef" range. My main beef with my current job is that I love the big picture stuff and hate having to stop in the middle of setting up some big complex database to go help someone plug in a DVD player and this job is that again.
Really I need advice. I want to hear what people thing about this. I feel like I could do better but I don't want to say that every time I get a job and just sabotage everything I do forever. The simple answer is to do it temporarily and I don't plan anything I find to be the last job I'll ever find But I've been living temporarily since I graduated college and I want to do something I feel like I can do for at least 5 years without the feeling that I need to be ready to move out of a place the second I move in. I want to put a poster on my wall without it feeling like too much commitment!
Any advice anyone has is appreciated.
If anyone has ANY opinion here I'd love to hear it.
It's a factory that makes custom windows and has a ton of industrial factory equipment. The IT team is one boss dude thats an electrical engineer and appeared to make a ton of mad scientist circuit boards and two programmers that are both named mark and I would be the actual Computer IT person.
PROS:
-They are wicked intensive with their IT budget and everything they have is new and state of the art and they turn over all the equipment every three years. So no more struggling with 11 year old equipment. Since 2005 they have spent a million dollars on computer systems.
-The pay is 38,000. (I am making ~28,500 right now...)
- Everyone seemed nice enough, my boss was a bit hyper but not offensively so, not everyone there was 60 year old and there was other IT people I might get along with.
CONS:
-Belfast is even more isolated than Bangor. I don't have to live right in Belfast but everything there is pretty rural and my Hikikomori tendencies don't need me moving farther away from people. At the same time it's still this same area and my life isn't going to come together until I am physically away from certain people. Moving to Portland was my goal and this is moving to the woods instead. Actually google maps indicates it's only 4 minutes closer to Portland than here is due to lack of highways!
-I am not super comfortable with working with industrial stuff. It's a factory and it's safe as is possible and I wouldn't be working a machine or anything but the guy was clear that people DO get hurt, the "no injuries for ___ days" sign was only at 109 days. He said the worst he ever gets is glass splinters(!!!) but that on a fairly regular basis the vacuum lifts cause glass to EXPLODE and he did point to glass on the floor around from that happening and he told a story about the same sort of machine they use cutting a woman in half at another factory. This also means it was loud as friggin heck. Even in the offices you could hear the machinery, and in the factory I had to ask if we could move somewhere else the noise was so loud. I think I could get used to it, but we walked in between a bunch of machines and welders and stuff and I hated that.
-My current low pay is basically the result of working a very small number of hours. 35 hours a week and 11 months a year. That is silly and I am absolutely okay with working more hours. But all done out I make 16.95 an hour. This job is more money take home for sure, nearly 10,000 more. But it is also 10 more hours a week MINIMUM (along with being all year) He made it really clear that since the machines never shut down during working hours a lot of IT stuff is at night or on weekends so it's going to often be a lot more than 45 a week. That DOES mean that per hour I would be making LESS than what I make now. 16.25 an hour, just far more hours. I don't know if I like that! It's more take home money but only due to vastly increased hours. That's 620 more hours a year I'd be working! I don't know how comfortable I am with the nights and weekends being additional and it's salary so that wouldn't mean more income.
-I've joked that I don't ever want another job where I put ink in printers. I don't really hate ink that much but it's a joke about not wanting to do computer janitor stuff, and this job was described as 'from dishwasher to head chef" of IT, and I was kinda looking for something in the "sous chef" range. My main beef with my current job is that I love the big picture stuff and hate having to stop in the middle of setting up some big complex database to go help someone plug in a DVD player and this job is that again.
Really I need advice. I want to hear what people thing about this. I feel like I could do better but I don't want to say that every time I get a job and just sabotage everything I do forever. The simple answer is to do it temporarily and I don't plan anything I find to be the last job I'll ever find But I've been living temporarily since I graduated college and I want to do something I feel like I can do for at least 5 years without the feeling that I need to be ready to move out of a place the second I move in. I want to put a poster on my wall without it feeling like too much commitment!
Any advice anyone has is appreciated.