Hello everyone,
Looking for some advice. I'm a product manager and recently left a contract role which had about 9 months left for a perm role. This was due to the perm role offering better career progression and the contract role not so much. Thing is, whilst the work was quite dull for the contract role, I actually liked working for the company as the people were great, flexi hours, working from home, etc. The latter two reasons especially helped as my daughter is still at nursery so dropping off and picking up can be done around work hours, plus my wife also works so the flexibility was very handy.
So I'm 2 and a half weeks into this new perm role and it's chaos, it's a small team within a large organisation but they're siloed off from the rest of the company and this wasn't explained to me in the interview. I was told it would have good work life balance and settled environment but that's turned out to be the opposite, there is no structure, priorities changing all the time (more than normal), during the handover the person I'm replacing said he's been doing the work of two PMs, some colleagues are so busy they don't take lunch (whilst a lot of people don't, I do like my lunch). I'm generally not enjoying the experience and whilst I know it's only been a couple of weeks, I have the same feeling I've had in other roles where I feel I'm not going to settle in well here and have ultimately left.
I've kept in contact with my boss at the contract role and he has said the job is still open if I want to return. Question is, do I stick it out in the perm role for the experience and future career progression which the contract role won't give me? (And look for a new role).
Or return to the contract role as it suits my personal/family situation at the moment as well as for the money/work life balance and worry about the next job when the time comes? Although I'm conscious that this is likely to coincide with the ir35 reform in April 2020
Looking for some advice. I'm a product manager and recently left a contract role which had about 9 months left for a perm role. This was due to the perm role offering better career progression and the contract role not so much. Thing is, whilst the work was quite dull for the contract role, I actually liked working for the company as the people were great, flexi hours, working from home, etc. The latter two reasons especially helped as my daughter is still at nursery so dropping off and picking up can be done around work hours, plus my wife also works so the flexibility was very handy.
So I'm 2 and a half weeks into this new perm role and it's chaos, it's a small team within a large organisation but they're siloed off from the rest of the company and this wasn't explained to me in the interview. I was told it would have good work life balance and settled environment but that's turned out to be the opposite, there is no structure, priorities changing all the time (more than normal), during the handover the person I'm replacing said he's been doing the work of two PMs, some colleagues are so busy they don't take lunch (whilst a lot of people don't, I do like my lunch). I'm generally not enjoying the experience and whilst I know it's only been a couple of weeks, I have the same feeling I've had in other roles where I feel I'm not going to settle in well here and have ultimately left.
I've kept in contact with my boss at the contract role and he has said the job is still open if I want to return. Question is, do I stick it out in the perm role for the experience and future career progression which the contract role won't give me? (And look for a new role).
Or return to the contract role as it suits my personal/family situation at the moment as well as for the money/work life balance and worry about the next job when the time comes? Although I'm conscious that this is likely to coincide with the ir35 reform in April 2020
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