Job Offer - what's your opinion?

[Allen Graham]

To Rich, you certainly have given Michelle good advice. Several others have provided good "input".

But there's always a "but".

For starters, Michelle says , "If I wasn't a single mom who just bought a house, "

Now here's the rub. Often getting fired, laid off, downsized, or ? presents several opportunities. None of which have been addressed. As well, Michelles' personality may or may not suit some of the above suggestions.

Michelle says "They are a small business, ..., so they don't need a full-time IT person. The owner offered that they pay me a modest salary, provide me an office, .... I can support their network, as well as do consulting work.

This is a common situation, sometimes it works, occasionally the "start of something big".

To: Michelle, do you have contacts or associates who can provide similiar services ? Or a "network" of people? Normally this type of sitation needs many hours of discussion (brainstorming) to head in the right direction.

(I'm a business consultant, usually dealing with SMB's in some degree of difficulty)

Allen

 

[Michelle Widell]

Just want to give everyone an update... I've received calls from other clients I used to service through the company I worked for, and they all want me to do work for them. Today I decided to pay a visit to another client for whom I did work for, and they said that they were trying to find out how to contact me. There's a boost to the confidence level! So far I have four clients, and several days worth of work lined up. Funny how I'm busy despite that I'm "unemployed". At least I don't have to worry about being caught browsing the CD racks at Best Buy, when I should be working. I'm kinda enjoying this.



I'll have to do a little hoofing to market myself to others if this is the direction I want to pursue.



I'm doing fine money-wise. I have no worries about that. I mentioned in another post where I was asking about windows for my house, that I had been saving up for that purchase. Windows may have to wait a little while - maybe not.



Sometimes things happen for a reason. Maybe this will just keep me busy until a decent paying job comes around, or maybe it will keep me busy until I'm just plain sick of working in this field and want to flip burgers.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Good luck Michelle. I incorporated in 2002 in PA and worked FT for myself that year, and PT ever since as an IT consultant. I suggest you go for it. That way, even if you get a FT gig, you can keep some PT irons in the fire. In this industry you need that, IMHO.



TJR