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Type of Company : Energy Company
My Role : Part of development team, but would have a good say in what we are doing. Would actually being using some fairly outdated technologies for the most part with just a little bit of the latest technology. Also in unregulated arm of Energy holding company so it’s a lot more fast paced and exciting. They are growing like crazy, expected work hours are 50 hours per week
Type of Company – Consulting Company
My Role – Consultant, would vary from project to project
Type of Company – Smaller company that develops software for 401ks, pensions, and payroll
My Role – I would be part of a growing development team. Top notch all the way around, would be using latest and greatest, very intelligent people, very developer centric. Top of the line equipment, could wear shorts and t-shirts to work, looks it would be a blast to work there.
Type of Company – Big Health insurance company
My Role – I would be the top person for a department of 15 people – in fact I would be by FAR the most technically savvy person in this department. So I would have a lot of say in how we solve problems, but the technology is a couple years behind on the programming side and 15 years behind on the database side. Those technologies I would not be able to change.
Type of Company – Consulting firm
My Role – I am one of their top people and get to make a lot of decisions as to what I want to work on and how I want to do it. Been at one client now for 1.5 years and really enjoy it.
As part of my series of what the heck should I do with my career oh my goodness too many decisions multi-part post hosted here on My Financial Journey I figured it would help the one or two readers who try to stumble through this horrible rant of babbling nonsense on which job I should take to know what is truly important to me in a job.
To summarize the most important thing to me when I am looking for a job is what is going to be best for my family. This can have many different implications ranging from: