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Urgent career advice needed!!

  • 09-01-2007 5:53pm
    #1
    Dagon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭


    After graduating with my MSc in Computing, I spent the summer looking for work. Found a great job in Galway as a programmer. 30k per year (6 month Contract, started nov), getting on well.

    Today got a call from the IT where I done my MSc. (had also done part time lecturing) and they offered me 38k for 1 YEAR of assistant lecturing, filling in for someone on maternity.

    Lecturing is my dream job, but the job I'm doing now is really good commercial experience (something that's quite lacking on my CV!!). I also love living in Galway, and have always wanted to live here. The work is challenging, and I'm using a lot of interesting technologies, getting very valuable commercial experience (much needed on the CV!! esp. seeing as it's mostly academic stuff on there, research, part time lecturing).

    On the other side, I love my old IT and loved part-time lecturing much more than sitting all day at a screen, talking to nobody. It's my dream job.. and my ultimate plan was to go working commercially for 2 years at least (get that much needed commercial experience on the CV) then try to get into lecturing - which is ultimate what I want to do. The 38k offered for 1 year also means that I'm getting paid for all the holidays (easter, summer, holy days, etc), while in my commercial job I have a measly 20 days per year, which means that by the summer I'll only have a couple of weeks holidays worked up (that's not much fun!)... also, most of my mates live near my old IT, and I'm still involved with a drama group there.

    I have to make a decision tomorrow and it's really wreaking my head... any advice?? I want to do both, and I hate letting down all my new workmates by quitting at the beginning of a new project, after they've trained me in the past 2 months...


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  • #2
    Running Bing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,841 ✭✭✭Running Bing


    Eh dream job and 8k more! seems like a no brainer to me. I know what your saying about your current job but if lecturing is what you really want to do...and who's to say in 6 months time when your contract is up you wont be out on your ear. three more months in your current job surely wouldnt have as big an impact on your cv as 1 year as a lecturer.


  • #3
    chump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭chump


    yea seems a no brainer, are you shure you aren't just making up reasons to stay as you're just settling in and are a bit lazy and don't fancy upping schticks and moving on so soon...


  • #4
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Lecturing is my dream job too.

    A while back, I jumped at a 1 year contract in lecturing, same conditions as yourself (6 weeks of at Christmas - heaven). With the way student numbers went (more places than students) there wasn't a position for me at the end of the one year contract. It was a risk, I took it, it didn't pay off. I thoroughly enjoyed it, though.

    During last Summer, the first job I applied for, I got. Back to regular 9-5, sitting in front of a screen. Not my ideal job.

    The difference between me and you is I have a lot of experience on my CV. TBH, my heart says go for the lecturing, but the voices in my head are whispering "he doesn't have enough experience".

    What happens after the one year? You could be back to square one with your career. You could be a lucky bastard and get another year, but be quite clear about it - permanent jobs are virtually non-existent in lecturing (especially at IT's).

    You will always pick up part-time lecturing in the evenings, which will add to your CV. Think about it carefully, if you are enjoying the current job and are learning loads, is it worth pissing off your current employer of 2 months?


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