Background: doing remote MSP work for a tech company based in Connecticut while living in CA. Pay is.. ok I guess, but absolutely on the low Scale for what I’m doing right now.
Somehow, the company negotiated for me to come into an office for a pretty big Pharma company that bought one of our clients (longer story). Said company expects me to completely take over the site’s network engineering role, run their Linux program, and still serve as Help Desk on the side. Did I mention project management work? Oh good.
They say it’s “Complicated”, and my MSP management won’t make waves due to the sheer scale of both companies involved. After doing this for about a year + I’m doing significantly well with all aspects of both. Should be a simply push to simply hire me as a full time employee right? Take me off the contract role and give me a single position in the company rather then worry about 2 others?
Big Pharma says “we can’t actually transition you to a full time employee with benefits”, lol. However we DO have more major projects coming up for you to handle”
so they expect me to simply serve out this lower paying role with the MSP until time external…They’ve actually stuffed all the eggs into one basket here with no fail safe plans as I’m literally the single contractor running point across the entire building.
Several interviews this week (hopefully) in CA with nearly double the pay, and should one of them work out I have zero qualms at all in dropping 2 weeks. It’s going to take at the bare minimum 1 year to retrain my replacement, so I really do feel like this is my best option.