Reply to: Resigned today

[FiveTimes]

And Zeity is about to do the same thing, I suspect.

Go Zeity

[MarillionFan]

Was going to say the same, Im thinking IT Director for my new permie role.

Mmm. Permie as a director, what a good idea.

[RasputinDude]

Pretty much that, yes.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Was going to say the same, Im thinking IT Director for my new permie role.

so more responsibility for the same money?

[RasputinDude]

Was going to say the same, Im thinking IT Director for my new permie role.

^^^
That.

Tough decision.

[escapeUK]

Permie as a senior employee may not be a deal breaker. Permie as a dogsbody would be.

Was going to say the same, Im thinking IT Director for my new permie role.

[eek]

Not really - you already mentioned the deal-breaker.

Permie as a senior employee may not be a deal breaker. Permie as a dogsbody would be.

[RasputinDude]

Not really - you already mentioned the deal-breaker.

Perm? Yes I know. Especially as current client is talking about extensions.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I have been offered quite a senior role in an established company - no competition for the role, it was a one-horse-race as it were. Everything about it is excellent and appealing apart from...it's a perm role. Difficult decision.

Not really - you already mentioned the deal-breaker.

[RasputinDude]

I have been offered quite a senior role in an established company - no competition for the role, it was a one-horse-race as it were. Everything about it is excellent and appealing apart from...it's a perm role. Difficult decision.

[dogzilla]

strangely enuff I know of a long time permie who has just quit after 17 years....must be something in the air

Something in the air? People leave their jobs all the time.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Out of the darkness and into the light

Permiedom is my idea of hell.....

[Bunk]

They tricked me with smoke & mirrors.

FTFY

[Gentile]

Well done.

I'm considering going back into permiedom. One-in, one-out...

I am too. But I did turn down a permie role this time last month that ticked most of my boxes (salary expectations, and working with the latest kit). That makes three outright written offers and three verbal soundings out that I've turned down from six separate organisations in the past three years. In addition to several recruitment processes that I've dropped out of in preference to staying pat when I found things weren't exactly right.

I'm starting to think I've just reached that stage in my career/life where I can't ignore any elephants in the room in the way that it's often important to do for permie roles. e.g., I attended one interview last week (for a contract) where one of the questions they threw in at the end was "What type of music do you think is best to accompany software development? They say jazz helps concentration..." (clearly jazz was this guy's favourite music). My answer: "To be honest, I find that any music short-circuits my brain in a way that makes it impossible to concentrate on complex technical problems. I don't mind work noise, but environments where people inflict their taste in music on their colleagues is my idea of hell. That's what headphones were invented for." Which was the honest truth, even though there was probably a slightly more diplomatic way to put it that I might have been inclined to summon up during my salad years.

[RasputinDude]

Well done.

I'm considering going back into permiedom. One-in, one-out...