No Freakin' Clue

[kilted exile]

Ok, my weekend (and life) has just been thrown into a tailspin. I am currently working short term contracts, and my current one expires in August. My boss today told me that due to cutbacks my job position will not exist when my contract runs out. He did however say with a wink and a nod, that I should apply to a position that is due to come out next month. The position is full-time, permanent and comes with full benefits, BUT it is in operations (running water/wastewater facilities). I am completely torn, I really like what I am doing now. However, the opportunity of full-time employment vs being unemployed is probably too good to turn down.

I have no freakin' clue what to do, and any advice would be appreciated.

[fayefaye]

Write down a list of pros and cons for each decision. Then throw the list out the window and do what you feel suits you best.

[rachel]

Ok, my weekend (and life) has just been thrown into a tailspin. I am currently working short term contracts, and my current one expires in August. My boss today told me that due to cutbacks my job position will not exist when my contract runs out. He did however say with a wink and a nod, that I should apply to a position that is due to come out next month. The position is full-time, permanent and comes with full benefits, BUT it is in operations (running water/wastewater facilities). I am completely torn, I really like what I am doing now. However, the opportunity of full-time employment vs being unemployed is probably too good to turn down.

I have no freakin' clue what to do, and any advice would be appreciated.

Kilted,
do you have the luxury of refusing the new offer and trying to find something somewhere else that is like what you are doing now? If not I would take the offer and at least be making money while I looked at my options. Of course there is always the possibility you might end up like the new job and then you would be glad.
That is what I would do if I did not have the money put aside to be choosey.
I know you will make the right decision. It sounds like your boss, wink wink has already put in a good word for you with the new position.

[Virgil]

Rachel's advice seems quite sensible. Do you know that you won't like the new job? And what opportunities might there be once in that new job? Think of it too as a resume builder. You've already got your experience in your current field. Will getting the experience from the new job round out your background, so that the two experiences together make you more valuable? I can't answer that. Also, if you're staying within the same organization, while you're current job might not be necessary now, it might circle back for you to return to. Things to consider. A general rule of life I've heard is never leave a job without having another ready. Unemployment sucks.

[Pensive]

Unemployment sucks.

Yuppers, it does, it does. :nod:
(though not always)

Kilted, I will say that you should take the job. It will prove to be very good for you. Atleast it will be better than being unemployed.

[papayahed]

Rachel's advice seems quite sensible. Do you know that you won't like the new job? And what opportunities might there be once in that new job? Think of it too as a resume builder. You've already got your experience in your current field. Will getting the experience from the new job round out your background, so that the two experiences together make you more valuable? I can't answer that. Also, if you're staying within the same organization, while you're current job might not be necessary now, it might circle back for you to return to. Things to consider. A general rule of life I've heard is never leave a job without having another ready. Unemployment sucks.

I agree, at the very least taking this other job will be padding on the resume. I'd take the job, you may like it and if not it's much easier to search for a new job while you have a job then it is when your unemployed.

[kilted exile]

Thanks, for the advice. I will go for the job, and if I decide in a couple of years I want to do something else I will still be young enough to do so.

[rachel]

I agree.
eighty six isn't old, why you look just as fine in your kilt now as you did when you were a lad!!

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