For those of you who don't know, I've been looking to leave my current job. On Friday, I unofficially received a job offer with a banking software company. I need to meet with the company's CEO for a few minutes before I can officially receive the offer, which should happen this coming week.
The job is one that I see myself really enjoying. It's working with C# (one of the newest programming languages), and s/390 assembly (s/390's are IBM's most expensive computers, assembly is low-level stuff [meaning everything else eventually gets broken down to assembly, so it can run on the processor]). It's this kind of stuff that I studied for in school.
I'm hesitant because the pay & benefits don't appear to be very good. I would take a small pay cut from what I make now, with a "review" within a year to see how I'm doing, and be raised from there. I'm not a fan of that. The health benefits don't start until a new month starts. For the first six months, I don't earn any time off (meaning I would have to work through the holidays, except for the actual holidays). There's only 7 recognized holidays. I would have thought that a banking software company would get all bank holidays off.
Even when I start accruing time off, it's at a very low rate, that increases every 5 years. I would have to work 15 years to get to the slowest rate Novell offers. And then the health plan is kind of weird. It's 70% / 30% through IHC. I don't like 30%. The company contributes an additional $700 per year that I can use to pay up to 10% of the costs, so for a while it would effectively be like only paying 20%.
It would look great on a resume, and I would enjoy it, but the compensation is very low. Which makes it a lot less fun.
The job is one that I see myself really enjoying. It's working with C# (one of the newest programming languages), and s/390 assembly (s/390's are IBM's most expensive computers, assembly is low-level stuff [meaning everything else eventually gets broken down to assembly, so it can run on the processor]). It's this kind of stuff that I studied for in school.
I'm hesitant because the pay & benefits don't appear to be very good. I would take a small pay cut from what I make now, with a "review" within a year to see how I'm doing, and be raised from there. I'm not a fan of that. The health benefits don't start until a new month starts. For the first six months, I don't earn any time off (meaning I would have to work through the holidays, except for the actual holidays). There's only 7 recognized holidays. I would have thought that a banking software company would get all bank holidays off.
Even when I start accruing time off, it's at a very low rate, that increases every 5 years. I would have to work 15 years to get to the slowest rate Novell offers. And then the health plan is kind of weird. It's 70% / 30% through IHC. I don't like 30%. The company contributes an additional $700 per year that I can use to pay up to 10% of the costs, so for a while it would effectively be like only paying 20%.
It would look great on a resume, and I would enjoy it, but the compensation is very low. Which makes it a lot less fun.
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