Well, slight conundrum that I apparently now face, so I thought I'd put it to you lot.
One of those who "must be obeyed" came over to me before with the comment of "Have you seen the trainee developer that we've got a vacancy for? Well, no-one else knows, but I'm also going to be offering other developer vacancies shortly - I'd appreciate you preparing your CV...".
That comment didn't come from my line manager, and he was being pretty quiet about it.
So decision time... do I go for it or not?
Pros:
- More money, though I don't know the range being offered.
- Development work again, instead of customer facing application support.
Cons:
- I've gone from support to dev before, and ended up acting as a go-between for the departments. It wasn't pretty.
I was assured in the last company that I could back out of the transfer if I wanted, but they replaced me in support & then that wasn't an option.
- Extra stress of more deadlines to meet.
Now, the money would be handy, but I don't really relish the idea of the extra stress/workload. However, dev's in this company do get some perks, like less BS office politics than we get.
So, .Org'ers... what would you do?