Multiple Job Offers - Wherein I whine like a little girl
So I've got two job offers on the table right now. Neither of them are any great shakes.
The one is for a local IT outsourcing firm. They offered me $15/hour for the first thirty days, raises after that to be contingent upon performance, essentially. I called them today to tell them I was taking the other offer, and Jeff offered me another $2/hour to start. 8-5 except in the event of a blowup that cannot wait, no benefits, and I'll have to provide my own cell phone.
The other is for a dental software firm. I'd be front line support to start, and I've got to be willing to commit for a good long time - at least a year. The pay starts at $9.50/hr, the shift varies from 7am-7pm - you get on a shift and you don't get changed around all the time. Like any job with this description I'll start on the least popular shift and get moved off of it once the next class of trainees comes onboard if I want - currently that is the 10:30 to 7pm shift. No biggie. They have pretty decent health and dental, $50,000 life - which is paid in full by the company. Seems like that is kind of rare; I've not been offered that before. The company is bigish, stable, has never had layoffs in the 10 or so years they've been around, and are owned by a fortune 500 company that I've never heard of (did look it up briefly). From what little I've seen, it would be a good place to work - good atmosphere, good advancement potential, etc.
On the one hand, I would expect the IT outsource place to be more of a challenge mentally. Much like when I was at Performance Computing, I would have my own accounts. Taking days off would require getting my clients approval as well as my bosses. The multiple bosses effect that I complained to my wife about when I was at PC seems like a given here. Theoretically, I can help the IT place get as big as we can get, and this would theoretically mean more money for me. It would be less structured, which has advantages and disadvantages.
On the other hand, the dental software place is very clearly a long term goal, right? I start at the bottom and work my way up. Unlike the IT place, the UP is already there; I don't have to create it. I get really freaked out when I don't know what the next step is going to be on. You remember the scene at the end of the Last Crusade where Indy takes that step out into nothingness? I wouldn't have, couldn't have done that, with no additional reason to believe it was going to be successful than historical clues. Maybe the IT job is good because it'd force me to take plunges, it'd be a challenge for me. But honestly, I don't want those kind of challanges. I've got enough on my plate right now trying to straighten out my moral issues and whatnot without this kind of mental exercise to go along with it.
On the gripping hand, I don't have to stay anywhere forever, and there will be other corporate jobs to land in the future.
The money is a big weight on my mind right now. We're reasonably heavily in debt from fighting with Winnemucca and unemployment the last five years. What I want is to find something I can do and stick with it, not have to move around. Frustratingly, that depends on my employers as much as it depends on me. Stupid iLumin people. *sigh*
I have to decide by noon tomorrow. The dental thing is through Kelly services, and it starts Monday. They want a commitment, and I cannot blame them for that, but this kind of pressure makes my brain melt, just melt. I need to get over that, obviously, but I DON'T KNOW HOW. In this particular instance, I'm using the Unicron icon, and it should be taken to mean that the uncertainty is devouring my brain.
Well, there you go Internet. I know that you, collectively, know everything. So tell me what I should do.
The one is for a local IT outsourcing firm. They offered me $15/hour for the first thirty days, raises after that to be contingent upon performance, essentially. I called them today to tell them I was taking the other offer, and Jeff offered me another $2/hour to start. 8-5 except in the event of a blowup that cannot wait, no benefits, and I'll have to provide my own cell phone.
The other is for a dental software firm. I'd be front line support to start, and I've got to be willing to commit for a good long time - at least a year. The pay starts at $9.50/hr, the shift varies from 7am-7pm - you get on a shift and you don't get changed around all the time. Like any job with this description I'll start on the least popular shift and get moved off of it once the next class of trainees comes onboard if I want - currently that is the 10:30 to 7pm shift. No biggie. They have pretty decent health and dental, $50,000 life - which is paid in full by the company. Seems like that is kind of rare; I've not been offered that before. The company is bigish, stable, has never had layoffs in the 10 or so years they've been around, and are owned by a fortune 500 company that I've never heard of (did look it up briefly). From what little I've seen, it would be a good place to work - good atmosphere, good advancement potential, etc.
On the one hand, I would expect the IT outsource place to be more of a challenge mentally. Much like when I was at Performance Computing, I would have my own accounts. Taking days off would require getting my clients approval as well as my bosses. The multiple bosses effect that I complained to my wife about when I was at PC seems like a given here. Theoretically, I can help the IT place get as big as we can get, and this would theoretically mean more money for me. It would be less structured, which has advantages and disadvantages.
On the other hand, the dental software place is very clearly a long term goal, right? I start at the bottom and work my way up. Unlike the IT place, the UP is already there; I don't have to create it. I get really freaked out when I don't know what the next step is going to be on. You remember the scene at the end of the Last Crusade where Indy takes that step out into nothingness? I wouldn't have, couldn't have done that, with no additional reason to believe it was going to be successful than historical clues. Maybe the IT job is good because it'd force me to take plunges, it'd be a challenge for me. But honestly, I don't want those kind of challanges. I've got enough on my plate right now trying to straighten out my moral issues and whatnot without this kind of mental exercise to go along with it.
On the gripping hand, I don't have to stay anywhere forever, and there will be other corporate jobs to land in the future.
The money is a big weight on my mind right now. We're reasonably heavily in debt from fighting with Winnemucca and unemployment the last five years. What I want is to find something I can do and stick with it, not have to move around. Frustratingly, that depends on my employers as much as it depends on me. Stupid iLumin people. *sigh*
I have to decide by noon tomorrow. The dental thing is through Kelly services, and it starts Monday. They want a commitment, and I cannot blame them for that, but this kind of pressure makes my brain melt, just melt. I need to get over that, obviously, but I DON'T KNOW HOW. In this particular instance, I'm using the Unicron icon, and it should be taken to mean that the uncertainty is devouring my brain.
Well, there you go Internet. I know that you, collectively, know everything. So tell me what I should do.