Hello everyone,
Today I'd like to tell you about a few changes that may occur, or not, in my life. I worked for a year as a contractor for a major telecommunications company in France. The money is okay, just enough to live, not really enough to put money aside or to contribute more to the Network. It's tech support, the work is pretty boring, and doesn't present any challenge or opportunity to learn. Fortunately I have no direct contact with customers, it's not a hotline! I have done enough of this in recent years, and receive human stupidity directly into the ear canal 8 hours a day is something I do not wish to anyone.
As it is a contractor job, my employer is free to assign me to other missions for other clients. However, I lack the training and experience to address most demanding things in IT, so I informed my boss in an interview yesterday, that I was very motivated to be trained and move on. He did not seem to hear it that way and instead asked me to continue to rise in power over the position I now hold, to eventually replace our team manager on this mission. This perspective does not particularly interest me, pay will increase only gradually over the years, and it will remain boring technical support, as I did for years. Nevertheless, this work is a stable source of income and sure enough, given the current economic climate, the IT business knows less economic crisis than other sectors.
Meanwhile, a few days ago, I met another person who offered me a job. He is the owner of a small structure, still in IT, and seems to have enough customers to run the company. It aims to train me in many aspects of the IT business, in exchange for which I would attend on delivery missions, not exciting but necessary to run the company, and also, once I'm trained, to the R&D for a large software project that he intends to launch soon on the market. Payroll is better, working conditions much more flexible, and I have the opportunity to learn many things about the industry. But it is much more risky: there is no suggestion that the large software project has a chance to sell, and the gentleman gave me the impression to add a little when he spoke to me of his previous achievements . According to him, he almost invented the e-mail.
In short, by agreeing to resign to join his small structure, I lose all my rights to unemployment to get into a risky but potentially rewarding, both financially and personally. Risks vs. rewards ... I torture my mind for several days to know what to do. Left it alone with all that awaits us as disasters and pandemics and fascist governments ? I'd do better not to wait until it hits the fan, and make decisions that will be necessary at this time?
There is also another track that I explore: in French labor law, I can pretend to date a year of paid leave, remaining an employee in my current company, to complete the training of my choice. It can be in the computer, or in any area. My boss is legally obliged to give me the training, so I think to take a course for a year in order to move up a gear in the computer industry. Or become a florist, or whatever I want.
Sorry for the length of this message, and thanks for reading it. What do you think about this situation ?
Today I'd like to tell you about a few changes that may occur, or not, in my life. I worked for a year as a contractor for a major telecommunications company in France. The money is okay, just enough to live, not really enough to put money aside or to contribute more to the Network. It's tech support, the work is pretty boring, and doesn't present any challenge or opportunity to learn. Fortunately I have no direct contact with customers, it's not a hotline! I have done enough of this in recent years, and receive human stupidity directly into the ear canal 8 hours a day is something I do not wish to anyone.
As it is a contractor job, my employer is free to assign me to other missions for other clients. However, I lack the training and experience to address most demanding things in IT, so I informed my boss in an interview yesterday, that I was very motivated to be trained and move on. He did not seem to hear it that way and instead asked me to continue to rise in power over the position I now hold, to eventually replace our team manager on this mission. This perspective does not particularly interest me, pay will increase only gradually over the years, and it will remain boring technical support, as I did for years. Nevertheless, this work is a stable source of income and sure enough, given the current economic climate, the IT business knows less economic crisis than other sectors.
Meanwhile, a few days ago, I met another person who offered me a job. He is the owner of a small structure, still in IT, and seems to have enough customers to run the company. It aims to train me in many aspects of the IT business, in exchange for which I would attend on delivery missions, not exciting but necessary to run the company, and also, once I'm trained, to the R&D for a large software project that he intends to launch soon on the market. Payroll is better, working conditions much more flexible, and I have the opportunity to learn many things about the industry. But it is much more risky: there is no suggestion that the large software project has a chance to sell, and the gentleman gave me the impression to add a little when he spoke to me of his previous achievements . According to him, he almost invented the e-mail.
In short, by agreeing to resign to join his small structure, I lose all my rights to unemployment to get into a risky but potentially rewarding, both financially and personally. Risks vs. rewards ... I torture my mind for several days to know what to do. Left it alone with all that awaits us as disasters and pandemics and fascist governments ? I'd do better not to wait until it hits the fan, and make decisions that will be necessary at this time?
There is also another track that I explore: in French labor law, I can pretend to date a year of paid leave, remaining an employee in my current company, to complete the training of my choice. It can be in the computer, or in any area. My boss is legally obliged to give me the training, so I think to take a course for a year in order to move up a gear in the computer industry. Or become a florist, or whatever I want.
Sorry for the length of this message, and thanks for reading it. What do you think about this situation ?
