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seldearI have a job offer. Contract. Starting Tuesday 23rd for three weeks. One day's pay of new job = one week's pay of current job. Take it or leave it? Ooh, tough question.
I have an interview. Permanent role. Interview on Monday 22nd. About half as much again as my last salaried role. The catch? They may very well offer me the job on the spot. Which means starting Monday 29th. Which means the three week contract will have to be broken.
Guess what? I don't like breaking contracts.
It's a toss-up, to be honest. I like the freedom of contracting. I'm not an employee, so there's a certain freedom there: they pay you to do the work, so they can ask you to work 12 hours a day, but you don't necessarily have to - whereas if it's the cultural norm in a permanant role, you don't have metaphorical legs to stand on.
And then there's the whole, "I'd like to take a week off" business that permanent companies don't usually like. Or, in my case, two months off so I can wander through the US and (this time) Europe. Maybe.
GAH! And I have to let people know about this by tomorrow morning. Because I can't in good conscience take the contract role for a week and then say, "Got a better offer - bye!" It's just not a nice thing to do.
It never ever ever rains, but it pours. Now why the hell can't it rain in the catchment area for a while?
I have an interview. Permanent role. Interview on Monday 22nd. About half as much again as my last salaried role. The catch? They may very well offer me the job on the spot. Which means starting Monday 29th. Which means the three week contract will have to be broken.
Guess what? I don't like breaking contracts.
It's a toss-up, to be honest. I like the freedom of contracting. I'm not an employee, so there's a certain freedom there: they pay you to do the work, so they can ask you to work 12 hours a day, but you don't necessarily have to - whereas if it's the cultural norm in a permanant role, you don't have metaphorical legs to stand on.
And then there's the whole, "I'd like to take a week off" business that permanent companies don't usually like. Or, in my case, two months off so I can wander through the US and (this time) Europe. Maybe.
GAH! And I have to let people know about this by tomorrow morning. Because I can't in good conscience take the contract role for a week and then say, "Got a better offer - bye!" It's just not a nice thing to do.
It never ever ever rains, but it pours. Now why the hell can't it rain in the catchment area for a while?
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Date: 2004-11-17 09:47 pm (UTC)The thing with a low paying secretarial job is that I need to constantly work just to manage my expenses and I don't get any extra money there. With a higher-paying contract job, I can work for, say, six months, and earn enough to reasonably keep me for another six months after I stop working.