permanent vs.contracting
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- rafalski
I need a bit of advice. I've been working as an in-house developer/designer for a corporation for over half a year. I am on a daily rate, my contract is for 3 days a week which I get to choose, but I usually work more, ie. I've been on 5 days week recently for some time and had an agreement that I could keep it 4 days in future.
I was just informed there was a chance for me to get "properly" employed and asked whether I was interested.
This would come with the regular - five days week, a tad lower salary masked with benefits to make it harder to notice the drop.There are pros and cons of going steady, probably being able to step up the managerial ladder in future being on the pros side.
I don't care too much for the benefits, I can invest in a pension and pay my med insurance myself just as well.
I am very comfortable where I am now, having 3-4 working days with freedom to do any freelance or whatever during the rest of my week keeps a smile on my face.
It is most probably not like they are going to ditch me if I kindly say no. It is my manager - by far the best boss I ever had - who came up with the proposal. He's been very flexible so far.
It's not like they're doing this to cut their costs. It is a corporation, so money isn't much of a factor for them - it is assigned there to be spent anyway. It is more about it's the natural sequence of how things happen in such environment - one goes from contract to permanent, then goes up and eventually becomes the CEO and flies the company jet..
I expected an offer like that eventually, well, maybe not this soon, but really was looking forward to 4 days working weeks next year.What I am asking here is not what to do. I was thinking, what your opinion was on whether or not one can say "no, thanks" to a proposition like that at all. Will it be seen as a lack of commitment?..
- HumanMale0
Interesting point. I guess it depends on whether they are 'asking' you or 'telling' you to swap over. Only you will know how your boss will interpret your decision – if they respect you as a talented designer and realise you dabble in freelance on your free days then they might not mind you sticking with your current schedule... but on the other hand they might want you to go full time so prevent you from doing freelance... if you see what I mean...
Be interesting to hear other peoples comments.
- rafalski0
I was actually encouraged to do freelance, as this company doesn't do any design other than its own branding. They're not in design industry at all, they're in finance. My boss didn't want me to get bored or feel limited creatively by working on a single brand only. I wasn't "asked to", only was "asked if I was interested", as an opportunity arose with the end of the year wave of reviews and changes.
Still, I was just wondering if declining such proposal, even if well reasoned and politely communicated, was a wrong thing to to by default.