Possible new job would have pay cut -update! I got the job!

[Templetroll]

You take the job to get income, and the side benefit is that you are now in a great place to network. If the job includes classes, take them. Build your skill set to allow you to be more valuable, proving this to your manager and others by taking those classes. When they have job fairs for the students, you likely are allowed to take part also, and that is the best chance to ultimately end up in a better paying job that you seriously enjoy.

My situation:

I'm unemployed and kind of burnt out. I have a job offer in the works, but the deal could still go bad. The job itself is OK. Nothing to write home about though. The only real "wow" part of it is that I'd be working on a college campus which would hopefully have a gym for me to use.

I would also be accepting a 10% pay cut.

I have a wife (who is also employed) and a two year old daughter, so I can't screw around and be unempolyed and I can't screw around and take a lower paying job.

Any advice?

 

[takyris]

I'm a Java programmer.

Geek, would you mind pinging me with an e-mail address I could use to contact you privately?

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Geek, would you mind pinging me with an e-mail address I could use to contact you privately?

Sent to you!

And I updated the first post. Things look very, very good.

 

[Ilium]

Congratulations BG! Best of luck to you.

 

[takyris]

Sent to you!

And I updated the first post. Things look very, very good.

Never got it -- don't know if you did it via PMs or e-mail, but I never got nothin'.

Anyway, not a big factor now that you've got the job. (I was gonna ask you more about your skillset to see if you might have what BioWare was looking for -- but that'd be a move, which is not always what people are looking for.)

Congratulations! From the edit, it sounds like a job with a lot of possibilities!

 

[BiggusGeekus]

(I was gonna ask you more about your skillset to see if you might have what BioWare was looking for -- but that'd be a move, which is not always what people are looking for.)

I sent it via the "send ______ an email" when you right click on the name.

And BioWare is out. A move is out. My wife is an energy economist who analyzes legal policy. There's not a lot of work for that outside of DC.

Congratulations! From the edit, it sounds like a job with a lot of possibilities!

Yeah, I'm psyched. I start Sept 5th. If I don't screw it up this could work out to be an amazing thing. The company is basically a warehouse for micro-organisms. So if you need a petri dish of Ebola, these are the guys you talk to (hence the possibility of a security clearance). Anyway, they have very little web support and they're just realizing they need it. I get the best of both worlds. A start up situation with an established company.

 

[kenobi65]

The company is basically a warehouse for micro-organisms. So if you need a petri dish of Ebola, these are the guys you talk to (hence the possibility of a security clearance).

And, if nothing else, it sounds like you'll be getting fodder for writing Spycraft or d20 Modern adventures.

 

[ssampier]

Copasetic. I wonder if you can decorate your office. I don't know how much game-dar stuff you have. It sounds like a breeding ground for dorks 'n geeks, the perfect gaming group.

 

[Steve Jung]

Congratulations, BG.

 

[frankthedm]

And, if nothing else, it sounds like you'll be getting fodder for writing Spycraft or d20 Modern adventures.

Gotta be real careful with that sort of thing. Use too much work info and he could get nailed for revealing state secrets. Even if it doesn't reach criminal level they could claim his behavior reaches "security risk" level and fire him with some clause from the employment contract.