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[fuzzygoth]

Well as I was starting work on my future house in Sheffield I got a call
Email from Norton Motorcycles. Basically what it said was:


We have a vacancy for a Web/IT Developer, to basically run the IT Department.
If you are still Interested would you be kind enough to give me a call.

Norton P.A. Lady


So basically they have upped the Salary from 25k which was on offer last time
to 28k, but I mentioned that I am now on 33k she has said she'd try to get
30k going up to 33k in 6 months once we are happy everything is working. It's
only 20 days holiday as opposed to the 25 days I have with Kids but the working
hours are flex-able. Barstewards, i was all settled into what i was going to
be doing for the next xx years and now this comes along. I am seriously conflicted.

Kids
Advantages
33k (which will probabaly go up)
25 Days paid Holiday
Fairly Flexiable working ours
Seems fairly Stable.

Disadvantages
All the Code is a steaming pile of pooh with no documentation!


Norton Motorcycles
Advantages
Clean Slate for coding, complete new start.
It's Norton (working around motorbikes)

Disadvantages
Like be a paydrop (3k)
only 20 days Holiday
Flexiable Working hours
Longer Commute that Kids

I have the last few weeks been a little unhappy with the code I am inheriting
from the company that built it, and i'd feel bad letting them down by leaving
to go to Norton. Argh, but Norton has more scope for advancement as i said before
I'd be ground level for running the IT Department but its a risk.

I guess the question is if i don't try it would I regret it?

Help!

Comments

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

The job sounds very similar to what I was doing back at M&S Shipping, or later Globalvisas. If it isn't officially an IT Manager now, it certainly is effectively the same job and if you go for it properly you could easily convert it to IT Manager in short order. I started at M&S Shipping as a 'systems developer', but was the only IT bod in the company and a year later got my job title changed to IT Manager. Haven't looked back since.

Don't compromise your market value. If someone is happy to pay you 33k for a straight dev job, you really don't want to be taking a pay cut for increased responsibillity. Bear in mind that as Cat points out, the market rate for charities is lower than private companies, so if a charity is willing to pay you £33k, it's ludicrous for a private company to offer less money for more responsibillity.

They might be able to fill the role for £28k, but they run a high risk of getting a muppet. If they are lucky enough to avoid that fate, anyone switched on will rapidly want more cash or will just move on to someone else who will pay a decent rate. Anyone who doesn't should be working for a charity where such altruism will be properly utilised.