Quandry

[chasingtheaurora]

Don't worry, this isn't an (a) versus (b) thing.

When I left university I wanted to work for a specific company (Fair, Isaac - the inventors of credit scoring ). They knocked me back and didn't even interview me. Infatuated by them as I was - and I'm still impressed with the work that they do - I vowed to not work for them. Bitter, moi?

Yesterday, I took a call from their EMEA HR Director (who I know socially) asking me how much it'd cost them to take my off contracting and on to permanence.

If you were in this position, what would you do, and what number would you give them?

[DBA_bloke]

What are you after? The kudos thing or dollars? Make up your mind and it'll all happen the way it should. Anyway, you'll be a pile of frozen polar bear dung soon, so who cares?

[chasingtheaurora]

What are you after? The kudos thing or dollars? Make up your mind and it'll all happen the way it should. Anyway, you'll be a pile of frozen polar bear dung soon, so who cares?

No massive plan to become polar bear output any time soon

Both the kudos and the dollars are good.

[TheFaQQer]

It depends on why you contract.

I contract so that I can take lots of time off every so often - very few permie jobs will pay me to work 9 months of the year. I don't earn a great deal more than I did when I was permie, but I do work a lot less.

If you are in it for the money, then you just need to work out what you typically earn in a year, and then add a premium on it for lack of holidays, and deduct anything that you think is worthwhile, e.g. job security, bonus etc.

A permie job would bore me, unless it was with another consultancy - in which case the management there would bore me. When I left permiedom, it was under the theory that if I was going to work for an idiot, that idiot may as well be me!

[Hevra]

Quandary

Before someone else gets in

Hevra

[Gonzo]

Don't worry, this isn't an (a) versus (b) thing.

When I left university I wanted to work for a specific company (Fair, Isaac - the inventors of credit scoring ). They knocked me back and didn't even interview me. Infatuated by them as I was - and I'm still impressed with the work that they do - I vowed to not work for them. Bitter, moi?

Yesterday, I took a call from their EMEA HR Director (who I know socially) asking me how much it'd cost them to take my off contracting and on to permanence.

If you were in this position, what would you do, and what number would you give them?

Life is far too short to hold a grudge.

Now think about the position without the history and what would you do?