100k perm + options its a Punt?

[SeanT]

Edit: To add, you will also be able to legitimately learn and attend training on your employer's time.

FTFY :P

[Eirikur]

Your opportunity sounds really good

If you genuinely think this is worth pursuing go for it, and 8-12 months down the line if you don't like it you can always come back to contracting if you prefer this.

Good luck.

Edit: To add, you will also get back 3 or 4hrs per day which can be spent on self-learning new things or whatever you enjoy doing.

Problem is with a 3 months notice which you will undoubtedly have after 6 or more months it will be virtually impossible to find a contract

[SueEllen]

Problem is with a 3 months notice which you will undoubtedly have after 6 or more months it will be virtually impossible to find a contract

No it won't.

You give your notice in an a month before you are free start looking for contracts.

[MyUserName]

If it is how you have presented it then, imho, you would be a fool not to take it.

[Eirikur]

No it won't.

You give your notice in an a month before you are free start looking for contracts.

Only if you want to take the risk to be on the bench for a while

[SlipTheJab]

Just to bring closure to this thread folks I have indeed accepted the perm role, am keeping the Ltd open until the end of the tax year as by then I will have an answer to the eternal question from the Clash (will I stay or will I go...), but 100k perm WFH with options mean I may be waving goodbye for good in a few months time 😢

[SlipTheJab]

Had a similar offer last summer, declined it as the hiring manager was a presumptuous, haughty, condescending, self-satisfied, stuck-up, arrogant, overbearing, supercilious, high-handed, superior, pedantic a-hole and I knew for sure I would be leaving within 3 months (of course I had the luxury of having a contract offer on the table at the same time as well)

Yeah but come on not every hiring manger is NLUK

[SlipTheJab]

No it won't.

You give your notice in an a month before you are free start looking for contracts.

I did exactly that, 3 months notice, resigned chilled for 2.5 months and then found my first contract role 😎

[northernladuk]

Yeah but come on not every hiring manger is NLUK

Oi!!

[ChimpMaster]

Just to bring closure to this thread folks I have indeed accepted the perm role, am keeping the Ltd open until the end of the tax year as by then I will have an answer to the eternal question from the Clash (will I stay or will I go...), but 100k perm WFH with options mean I may be waving goodbye for good in a few months time 😢

Congrats Slip. I think it's the right decision, certainly if my experience is anything to go by. If you get to learn new tech then it'll put you in good stead for the future.