I’ve been talking to a company about coming on board. The best supervisor I’ve ever worked with has moved there and recruited another past team member, and we’ve been talking for about 2.5-3 months waiting on funding for a project to come through.
We have a third meeting yesterday, I get a number of “welcome on board” handshakes, and an offer letter by the time I get home.
It’s the same salary as I’m getting now, a week less of vacation, and insurance through Kaiser (not my favorite). It’s also an extra 20 minute commute each way.
During our meeting yesterday the guy interviewing me said due to the funding delay we were already behind the 8-ball and I’d be walking into a bit of a dumpster fire. I emailed back on the offer today and said that for more commuting and fire fighting I had expected a pay increase over my current rate. We’ll see.