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  • BrilloPad
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    Harry Hindsight is always right.

    A friend got offered 0.6% of a company due to float for $20m in a year. He took it. It floated after 1 year for $100m.

    Personally I would still take the contract. More security!

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  • MarillionFan
    started a topic You pays your money, you take your chances.

    You pays your money, you take your chances.

    Had the chance to go perm or take a contract in May. Perm had shares options before they floated but paid less than the contract. So I went contract.

    Bloody shares have now doubled. $200,000 up on what I would have got(over 4 years).Now turns out that I can't get my H1 or L1 visa to move to the US unless I go permanent which if I do I get the higher vest price. Grrrr!

    So wasted 5 months or a visa and lost out on options.

    Sometimes it pays to go perm on a lower salary
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