Need Advice

[robotronParticipant 40]

Hi all,

I’m having a hard time making a career decision and I’m hoping I can get somebody else’s perspective.

I’m currently working in a good public sector job at a senior level. I’m IT guy and I’ve been putting in a lot of my spare time to upskill and get certified over the last few years. My particular skills are in demand right now and there is a shortage. Although the pay and conditions are really good where I am, I have to do a lot of management stuff and I feel like I don’t get to do enough hands-on IT work. I feel that I’m never really going to be the best IT guy in that job but it is secure, good pension, good pay and I get 30 days a year off. There is also not a lot of stress and I get leave whenever I want.

I’ve been offered a hands-on technology consultant job in one of the big consulting firms for slightly more money and good conditions. The pension isn’t as good but it is a good package all the same. I won’t have to manage a team or do the bulls~~~ I have to do now, but I’ll be a completely hands-on guy and I’ll get a lot of exposure to different technologies and environments. A friend said that I would be able to name my price on future jobs with that type of experience. I may even to set up my own gig some day. The hours are the same but I may have to work extra hours in this job. I don’t do any extra hours where I am.

I’m thinking though that in ten years I might change my mind and the security and good conditions and life-balance I have now will be what I want. I will get a much better pension where I am and the money now is more or less comparable. I’m pretty happy with what I get now. I don’t really need more. I feel like in the long run I might be better off just staying where I am and accepting I’ll never be a rock star, but enjoying the security, relatively low stress and life-balance my job offers and still getting a chance to do some IT work.

I’m finding it hard to make a decision but having typed this out, I think I would probably be mad to leave where I am.

[Anonymous 42]

A government job breed complacence, you’ll never become financially indestructible. On one hand you’re pampered like a child with big daddy doling out the benefits evenly for all to share no matter your performance record.
The private workplace is like a jungle, eat or be eaten, do or die. I like the wild side myself, It’s more befitting of my demeanor, but that’s me.
On the one hand you’re a fed federal cow, on the other you’re a lion, and being the lion, the kill is yours to keep,,,, not to share with a bunch of weaklings protected by a system that has taken the liberty to print dollars rather than earn them! The system is on a collision course with destruction, that’s for sure. I’d rather be a trained predator than a cow when the whole thing comes smashing into the ground.

[Biggvs_DickvsParticipant 3725]

Anonymous wrote:

protected by a system that has taken the liberty to print dollars rather than earn them!

Just remember it’s private business assholes who are printing that money – the fed is owned/controlled by private shareholders(member banks).

We only borrow the counterfeited (printed) dollars.

Seriously try to wrap your head around the fact that we’re paying INTEREST on counterfeit (privately printed/created) money.

"Data, I would be delighted to offer any advice I can on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know." --Captain Picard,

[robotronParticipant 40]

Anonymous wrote:

A government job breed complacence, you’ll never become financially indestructible. On one hand you’re pampered like a child with big daddy doling out the benefits evenly for all to share no matter your performance record.
The private workplace is like a jungle, eat or be eaten, do or die. I like the wild side myself, It’s more befitting of my demeanor, but that’s me.
On the one hand you’re a fed federal cow, on the other you’re a lion, and being the lion, the kill is yours to keep,,,, not to share with a bunch of weaklings protected by a system that has taken the liberty to print dollars rather than earn them! The system is on a collision course with destruction, that’s for sure. I’d rather be a trained predator than a cow when the whole thing comes smashing into the ground.

Thanks for replying. Yes, I hear what you’re saying and there a lot of people like that. I’ve always been a doer myself. I wouldn’t be happy sponging no matter where I worked. It would not sit right with me.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

A man isn’t rich when he has “money”. He’s rich when he has choices.
The poorest people aren’t missing money. They have the fewest choices.

As long as you keep creating opportunities for yourself – every way you can – it’s a good thing to always have the luxury of deciding to go left or right. This isn’t a dilemma. Few people are as fortunate. May such decisions drive you crazy forever.

Just don’t fall into the trap off thinking a “job” means “security”. You can get used to being comfortable if you’re not careful. Don’t get too comfortable. If you ever find you’ve hit a plateau….. it means it’s time to go.

But please, don’t listen to me. Just handing you a seed. Water it if you want.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[John Woods 13Participant 2855]

Oh yes… The comfy over paid, over benefitted, under performing and forever safe government job. There is one entity on this earth that I despise more than a person holdinholding such a job. And that is the person who created it.
Please don’t take this personally. I’m sure you are a good person and you are working hard. The only problem is that the more you work, the less liberty I have.
So, if you are any good, please go into the private sector.
Now, to answer your question. Everyone I knew that had a long term government job ended up bored and depressed. The problem is that by the time you realize it it’s too late to go anywhere else.

The answer is NO. “I could but I won’t”. Memini murum!

[DeepInThoughtParticipant 2710]

Keymaster wrote:

A man isn’t rich when he has “money”. He’s rich when he has choices.

One of THE BEST quotes on this site!

Definitely agree with this.

[RoyDalParticipant]

Read this book. It says everything I want to say only much better.

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Keymaster’s quote is a keeper!

DeepInThought wrote:

Keymaster wrote:
A man isn’t rich when he has “money”. He’s rich when he has choices.

One of THE BEST quotes on this site!
Definitely agree with this.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[Anonymous 42]

Biggvs_Dickvs wrote:

We only borrow the counterfeited (printed) dollars.

@BDk, Hillery ran to China borrowing back the money we spent there, only to pay interest, instead of China “spending here” like promised in all free trade agreements one after another,. Most, if not all of our heavy rubber tooling and equipment was purchased by China for pennies on the dollar, America is being torn apart like a downed gazelle on the Serengeti during a drought!

As for the bankers banksters GANGBANGSTERS They’ll ride both sides of a war and profit either way it goes. They don’t care who or what they crush, they only know one thing, DEBT MAKES THEM GOD ALL MIGHTY! Or commonly known as Moloch in the spiritual realm. I honestly believe they’re responsible for more human suffering than any other entity here on earth. END THE FED, END THE CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS THAT HAS PLAGUED THIS WORLD SINCE 1913. It seems utter and total destruction is the only path to real “EQUALITY”. The US Constitution, and it’s limitation on the POWER, SIZE, AND SCOPE, of government, condemns what we have today.
Get off the dollar, or be owned by it….
I never did things for profit, I did my work for enjoyment, the money was just the exchange. Now the exchange is so heavily laden with hidden taxation and strangulation for regulation, it’s not worth doing the deal, filter out the slavery by investing in yourself! Make your television black, put down the game controller, and search this vast wilderness we call the web, for knowledge and understanding on how things are done, There’s millions of lectures by some of the smartest people on earth.

[Author]

Posts