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[fatJock]

Depends how bothered you are about the role as others have said as even a marginal uplift could give second thoughts at renewal time.

As I hate my current inside role [despite being from the school of "better to have work than to be looking for it"] I did manage to negotiate a...

[fatJock]

Cant edit for some reason - but if anyone thought my prior post was a bit insensitive (why out of work for so long) then I apologise. Wasn't in any way trying to appear superior.

[fatJock]

Totally agree and thought the original comment was a bit uncalled for - we're all in the same boat. Genuinely interested in hearing about both sides of the fence especially as I'll likely be looking in a few months....

[fatJock]

Hmmmm I suppose. Maybe I was lucky with my timing as I'd taken a year out by choice and then came back in Oct 23 and have been at the same place since then - a return to somewhere I had worked before and as a PM so a different market I suppose. Probably also helped that most of my work has been from...

[fatJock]

I'm genuinely struggling to accept that there has been nothing you could have got in the last two years? Even if it wasn't what you ideally wanted ........

[fatJock]

So you keep telling us....

[fatJock]

Just had a 3 month extension through to 4th July so the job hunt will wait a bit longer.

[fatJock]

Haha I just need to eke out another five years as a Infra PM. Surely got to be enough DC migrations / cloud migrations etc to keep me busy till then

[fatJock]

Currently on track to finish on 4th April and a week off booked next week with only very loose talk of extension to finish off the bits I am working on. Perm PM's scratching around for work so I suspect that's the end of this but it's been 18 months so ….

Be interesting to experience...

[fatJock]

Let's hope there are some around when I'm looking - appear to have reached the end of the road in my current [much hated] role....