OriginalGriff wrote:

Enjoying your job **is**important: you spend 1/3 of your life asleep, 1/3 at work and (it seemed to at one stage) 1/3 commuting to work.

It's funny you should mention that. My boss's boss was trying to give us a pep-talk about how he sees the importance of developing staff (despite the fact that we don't have a dedicated budget for training) and said something about how we give them an hour of work, they give us money for it, and at the end of your life you won't be able to give that money back and get back those hours. Which made me think "holy crap, I need to find a new job", which I think was the exact opposite of what he was trying to achieve.

Yeah, my potential future boss kind of pep-talked me over lunch with how he thinks I should be able to make it back up in a "few years". I was thinking about my salary over the last 8 years at my current position and (I think) it works out as making 28% more now that when I started. But we usually get good bonuses (target of 15%), but we just got an e-mail saying bonuses will be down this year because sales weren't as good as they hoped.

It's difficult to say. We could probably save less and be able to swing it. But my wife is not working since we have an 8 month old to take care of. If I was single, no kids, I probably wouldn't think twice (well...maybe twice, but probably not three times).

It works out at about 16%...so smack in the middle of your range!

I'm fed up with my current job and see very little in the way of prospects going forward. I have an offer on the table for another job that I think will be really cool in ways my current job can never hope to be. But, and here's the rub, it would involve taking a hit in the region of $16k/yr in salary (and the health benefits are about twice as much too). My head says "NO!", but my heart says "erm...maybe?"

And apparently they aren't aware that there are white people living in Jamaica.

And 2026 still isn't 20 years.

TFA wrote:

Construction for the London to Birmingham route will begin in 2017 and be finished by 2026. The Birmingham to Manchester/Leeds construction starts in the mid 2020s and is due to be finished by 2032 or 2033.

So the London to Birmingham part will only take 9 years (which is still shockingly slow, but it's not 20 years).

:-D I haven't actually checked it out yet, despite living about 5 minutes from it.

Mike Mullikin wrote:

Microsoft stores pop-up near every Apple store.

In my town, we already have a Microsoft Store that just opened in the same mall as the Apple Store.

Surely a _rev_amp does the opposite of an amplifier?

MSDS are talking about industrial scale exposures. I wouldn't worry about it. As I said, it's in many foods and added to many other foods. It's used in tiny amounts because it's aroma is so potent. Hence why a release in France can be smelt in southern England. And why it's added (in tiny amounts) to natural gas, even a tiny leak is detectable by the nose. Look up the MSDS for any number of innocuous materials and you'll see similar things.

Take a look at your MSDS:

NFPA RATINGS (SCALE 0-4): HEALTH=0 FIRE=3 REACTIVITY=0

See the "HEALTH=0" part? Yeah, not that dangerous. Mercaptans naturally occur in a lot of foods (garlic for example) and tBuSH is a common ingredient in flavors. So yeah, mostly harmless.

From the article:

Steve Ballmer played ‘Bet the Company’ on the long-delayed release of Win8

Long delayed? Vista was long delayed, Win 8 was pretty much on schedule. Shows that this "analyst" doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. As for "what would I do?". I don't work for Microsoft, so I don't see why it's my problem. I'd move on.

Yeah, The Pub is great. They have Boddingtons on tap. Or at least they did the last time I was there. :thumbsup:

_Maxxx_ wrote:

Yeah - you're taking it out of the context of the original question though

Since it's my question, I don't think so ;P I'm not just asking a hypothetical here. I've had two job offers already. The first one was fine, they offered me the same as what I'm currently earning, but the health insurance was terrible. To cover my whole family would have cost me somewhere in the region of an extra $8k / yr. So I turned it down. The second one had much better insurance and I was doing just fine, until I got to the CEO who claimed he'd only just be handed my resume, but he was a "quick study". He starts asking me about how I'd handle the learning curve and how he needs people who can "hit the ground running". With hindsight, I'm a little mad at myself for not handling it better because it's BS. I know the technologies they are using, and I should have been a little more forceful on that point. I aced the interview with their technical people and they seemed really excited. I really feel I got at least partially tripped up on my current job title because he didn't read the description. He'd convinced himself that he knew what I was all about (as most CEO types do, once they get an idea in their head, it's hard to dislodge) and nothing I said made a difference. Their HR guy did call be and told me that they were looking at around a salary that would have actually be slightly less than I was earning when I started my current job...8 years ago. It would have been a cut in the region of $25K/yr. Suddenly the crappy insurance at the other one looked great! The second one isn't completely dead. The HR guy said he'd "touch base" with me again in a couple of months time (after my bonus at my current job, which I'd also be giving up) to see if anything has changed. But to be completely honest, I've soured a little on the whole thing. If they'll low ball me that badly right from the start, I wonder how fair they'll be going forward.

I lived around that area when I first moved to the city (Forest Park), then moved to Kenwood. I work just off I-71 in Bond Hill.

Must just be that side of town too. This side has been sunny (but bloody cold) all day.

I've been in Cincy for 8 years, and I've never understood why people seem to collectively forget how to drive when it rains here. It's not like it doesn't rain a lot either. They have plenty of chances to practice.

_Maxxx_ wrote:

Maybe I am missing the point here, but if you are applying for another job, just call yourself what you like on your resume - senior developer, software engineer whatever.
 
If you get interviewed etc. and they get references from your current employer, they ain't going to give a toss about the job title, if they even notice.

Well, they won't get references from my current employer as that would rather give the game away. But what they might do is make an offer, which I accept, and then check job titles and starting / ending salary with my current (soon to be previous) employer and get mighty annoyed if I said I was "chief guru of all things awesome" and they say "no, he was junior keyboard cleaner". That's the kind of BS that might see an offer immediately withdrawn. Certainly if I was hiring, I'd have some questions about that.