Money is the obvious answer. Cool work environment is important. (not having someone refer to you as anal juices). Especially if you have a family good benefits. Depending on your age you may not be putting much emphasis on retirement but it is very important.
Do they have a retirement program? how does it work? When do you vest? Do you keep your medical benefits when you retire (usually government jobs)? Medical insurance is several hundred to over a thousand dollars a month now. What will the cost of medical insurance be when you retire? Neither my parents nor my in-laws were expecting to pay upwards of $1,000 a month for medical coverage with $3,000 deductibles and $45 co-pays. But that is what they are paying. It has really taken a large bite out of their retirement plans. So I would obviously take a look at current pay, but I wouldn't overlook the long-term and consider what does this job offer in regards to my retirement. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:43 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Lots o' stuff Hey guys, So I've got some dilemmas - some really good ones. I've been in my current position for the past 11 months. Things have been ok, I've been a little bored, but one thing that was happening often was my manager was making some very bad personal decisions that affected my group. I got disgusted with the decisions and decided to look for a new job. That was two weeks ago. The response to my resume has been incredible - it might as well be 1999 for me (btw, you REALLY need to learn ...NET if you don't know it). So last week, said manager pushes me a little too far - I go ballistic and report all of these decisions to another manager, end up in the HR office, and yada yada yada the manager was fired on Monday. So now I'm in a position where the manager is gone, but I don't think that the rest of my group has much respect for me doing so. Also, I've got people DYING to have an interview with me. I got one offer, Wednesday, from a nice mid-sized company, 6mo contract-to-perm, $45/hr. It increased to $50/hr today. They are doing some really cool stuff with .NET, the team is really nice. It feels a lot like being a Microsoft when I was there. I had an interview-dinner last night with a guy from Bosche. I got a call today that I need to go to HR tomorrow at the local plant. The offer is not officially extended, but it will be tomorrow. I think the pay will be marginally more or the same as what I make now, but it feels like I would have a lot of upwards or sideways mobility, which is very important to me as I also have an MBA and would like to be more than a programmer in the future. I just got back from a place that wants to hire me in the worst way but won't know what to offer me until Wednesday. Anyway, I'm overwhelmed with stuff on my plate. What do you guys look for in a job? Long term goals? Short term money? Highly-advanced technical stuff? Let me know. - Matt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:178605 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
