I've had 12-14 hour days since last Monday. This will run thru the 3rd. Don't like it one bit. But, I'll be back to 930 to a little before 5pm daily after that. Till the next quarter end.
self inflicted, I happen to be super into what I'm doing right now. Burn rate is very high right now though. I'm taking a step back anywhow. my moms got cancer again. I'm moving into the parents house rent free to spend time with the family before I regret it.
Sorry to hear this, but I'm certain your mom really appreciates you being with her. You're a great son.
whats your minimum earnings per year you need to be comfortable long term? 75k, 100k, 150k, 200k? I really want to take a few months off from work. I should have enough savings by end of year to be comfortable without working for well over a year.
There's no set answer considering everyone has a different family situation, financial situation, and wants/needs, as well as cities having varying COL levels.
I can’t believe I did it, but I gave my two weeks this morning to hang a shingle and do my own thing. I have one confirmed client and a few people interested in working with me. I’m excited as hell, but terrified. Here goes nothing...
what industry will you be consulting? Always happy to connect you if I have contacts. also, do you have experience in consulting or you just want to be independent? If you don't have any experience, I strongly urge you to find a shop you can work with and learn from.
Not really consulting, but providing a service. I don’t like to talk too much about this on here, but let’s say it’s marketing.
happy to help you in any way. I've been in the consulting industry for ~10 years. If you want to talk offline I can provide some insight into the world you are stepping into.
Boss just talked to me. Wants me to stay on through September and willing to let me work remotely full time and build my business on the side.
This project is the spawn of satan. Is literally making my ass want to quit. AptosDuck are you still with big blue?
I think I understand why consultants become alcoholics or abuse substances now. Jesus fucking christ at my life rn.
Anybody ever done an official mentor/mentee program type thing through work? Have my first one coming up next week and not sure what I should do in advance, what questions to ask etc.
Are you the mentor or mentee? I had one a while back and the mentor I had just shot the shit with me every time and we talked about random banking stuff he thought was cool, or just talked about bourbon and football, guess it varies.
Reached out to my previous place of employment about coming back since I saw my position re-open again, anyone have any advice on this one way or another? Have a call with a recruiter here in about 45mins.
I’m the mentee. New program at work. What makes this situation a little weird but potentially beneficial I guess is that my mentor is my current CEO. If it was somebody outside the company, I’ve got a list of questions ready to go, but for my boss’s boss, some of those may be odd, since they are directly in control of my future.
Ask him questions about himself and his career and how he became CEO. If he’s like most CEO’s I’ve met, he’ll love you for allowing him to talk about how great he is.
On-site interviews on deck for next week. How the hell do I approach these? I know all the people I'm going to be interviewing with, I worked with them for 6+ years.
Have a rock solid reason for leaving that has nothing to do with any of their’s or the company’s shortfalls. Let them know how much better their company is than where you went... Damn I sound like Andy Bernard with all this ass kissing advice this morning. Honestly though, the decision is already probably made and they wouldn’t waste their time with interviews unless they wanted you back.
If they're bringing you in for an interview after you've already worked there, they already know you can do the job. They just want to see how much of a flight risk you are again.
I hope that's the case, I haven't even formally applied yet (can't access the application system for some reason) - I just reached out to a former colleague about the open spot and here I am. I talked with the HR BP today and she wants me to come in for interviews anyways. They wouldn't just bring me in for interview without consulting with management first right? Not really familiar with the HR/recruiting side of things?
We've turned down former employees after bringing them back in for interviews, but usually because they did not take the interview seriously (thought it was a formality and bombed in front of HR.) In addition to that, all of the ones I've been involved in that we did not ultimately rehire A: Had enough people in their corner to bring them in for an interview, but also had people lobbying not to bring them back B: were applying for other jobs within the company other than the one they were performing when they left.
Yea, they’d have to schedule with the hiring manager. If he or she didn’t want you back then they’d tell HR at that point.
Obviously this can vary by industry, level of position, etc, but if a corporate recruiter contacts you and says we’re looking to pay around X, what percentage do you think they leave themselves to play with? Trying to figure where I want to counter. I figured we had more than a few recruiters here.
At least 25% ^This is bad advice from someone who way undernegotiated when I came to my current employer.
I would just use it to figure out how he thinks about stuff. I did one a couple years ago and I was really able to develop my “political savvy” about our industry as a result of just a few conversations. A colleague of mine went through the same program and I guess thought his mentor was supposed to be a friend he could complain to about how stupid his manager was and made a terrible impression.
Hi. I can only speak from my experience in the Life Sciences Industry over the past 8 years, but I’d speculate that 90% of companies come forward with an offer with some additional money in their back pocket if needed. If it were me and I knew I wanted the job, I’d play around with socratic negotiation. It has worked very well for me in the past. That is- if the Company offers me $95k and I know my ‘yes’ number is $100k. I’d come back to them with a convo or email with the following; - re-iterate your interest in the company and how you see yourself fitting in. - hit them in the nose with your request of asking for $102k. Justify why you are asking for the additional money with a couple points. (Always ask for a smidge more than your yes number because companies always think they are supposed to come back to meet in the middle) - give them a finish line. “If you guys were able to get to $102k, I’d be prepared to accept today and turn in my resignation letter at my current employer.” If they want you and can see a finish line then they are more likely to go up the chain to get approvals. If they can’t go get any more money, then they’ve either made their best offer or they’re just lukewarm on you and have a backup candidate. Caveat- don’t do any of that if you don’t want the opportunity to work out. Let me know if that doesn’t make sense. I’m writing this from my phone. I’d be happy to talk more candid in the DMs.
Automated a process this past summer that saved prolly 50 hours collectively. The process is done once every year, so I wouldn't be able to find out for certain that it actually worked until a couple weeks ago. It worked. I may actually get a 1.5% increase this year. Yea. My new company only gives a max of 2% annual increase. But, a lot of people stay for years here. I cant figure out why other than lack of confidence they can do better.
I got ghosted by the recruiter after the recruiter saying she would setup the on-site interviews. I then reached reached out multiple times to her, nothing happened. Moved on basically.
I know right. There was also a 60 day waiting period for benefits which they completely left out. 30 days for 401k. No paternity benefits either. Never thought I'd have to ask these types of questions as a corporate employee at an F300 company, but here I am lol. I can't believe people just accept this. Using all my 13 vacation days before the summer then keeping it moving.
I started as an intern at my company 7 years ago. The company I work for (and industry) has exploded since then. My company has more than tripled in revenue. We got bought by a fairly large well known conglomerate about 2 years ago. We’ve had a ton of turnover but keep pressing forward. I got promoted but got dicked on my raise a tad. They ended up making up for it about 6 months later by basically working the system. Still think i deserve more but we’ll see how my annual merit raise and bonus comes through My old boss called me the yesterday and basically said if I wanted a job he’d get me one at the competitor he went to. Didn’t talk money with him but I’d imagine it’s at least a $20k-30k raise to my base salary based off talking to the 3 recruiters that have called me over the past 6 months from the same company. I haven’t even interviewed and the thought of changing companies stresses me out.