I'm currently engaged under contract as a Business Intelligence Consultant and some what enjoy the work I have been doing (I'll get to the somewhat in a minute). I have been on this contract for a few months now and it is an open eded contract with no defined finish date. I was orginally told it would be approximately 6 months possibly longer. Well it has been about six months now and since it was a contract I never pulled my resume from any of the places it is listed nor have I stopped looking to see what other oppertunities exist. Now I may have a potential full time offer comming from another company in a diffrent part of the country, as well as one from the place I am under contract.
I am typically the type of person that likes to see a project to the end but with this there is no defined end. I also believe in developing sound applications and following best practices as much as possible which I am to a great extent prevented from doing at this current location (The some what). Although the people here are great to work with they can tend to be very close minded and look at things in the here and now rather than how something done now may have an affect on something needed later. I don't see a whole lot changing in attitudes or approarch at my current location. The other company I am quite familiar with and is a true development enviroment where ideas are exchanged and listened to. The primary goal of the company is to deliver sound, stable, and high preforming applications. Best practices are followed and new approaches are tested and thought of. I know a number of the people at this company and they are pushing to have an offer extended to me.
I knew that this may eventually occur although I didn't think it would happen for a few more months.
Which leads me to my problem. I don't know if the answer exists and if it is one I want to hear or follow. But is it wrong to enter into discussions with the new company. It is not a situation where I would pit the companies against each other in an attempt to get more money. Job Satisfaction and the type of people I work with is of great importance, at least I feel it is.
"Shoot Me! Shoot Me NOW!!!"
- Daffy Duck
I am typically the type of person that likes to see a project to the end but with this there is no defined end. I also believe in developing sound applications and following best practices as much as possible which I am to a great extent prevented from doing at this current location (The some what). Although the people here are great to work with they can tend to be very close minded and look at things in the here and now rather than how something done now may have an affect on something needed later. I don't see a whole lot changing in attitudes or approarch at my current location. The other company I am quite familiar with and is a true development enviroment where ideas are exchanged and listened to. The primary goal of the company is to deliver sound, stable, and high preforming applications. Best practices are followed and new approaches are tested and thought of. I know a number of the people at this company and they are pushing to have an offer extended to me.
I knew that this may eventually occur although I didn't think it would happen for a few more months.
Which leads me to my problem. I don't know if the answer exists and if it is one I want to hear or follow. But is it wrong to enter into discussions with the new company. It is not a situation where I would pit the companies against each other in an attempt to get more money. Job Satisfaction and the type of people I work with is of great importance, at least I feel it is.
"Shoot Me! Shoot Me NOW!!!"
- Daffy Duck