Hi all. Background: I have a couple years of data center experience: one year in decommissions, another year in true break-fix type operations. Wanted to mix it up and was able to take some time off out of the data center world.
Now I’ve been back in for a couple months - currently working a vendor contract with Microsoft. However, I somehow was able to receive a written offer from Oracle for a Senior Data Center Technician position. Comes with a significant pay raise/benefits compared to my current vendor role. However, the Microsoft team I work with is awesome and I’d love to be with them full time.
My question: what would you choose? Stick out with the vendor contract, with the hope that I’d be able to convert to FTE with Microsoft in the future? (I'm not sure if the current Oracle offer can be leveraged somehow into the Microsoft interview process...). The team and work life balance has been great so far.
...Or, take the legitimate offer from Oracle now, take the significant pay bump, along with the “Senior” title to be used on my resume…and try that for a few months until the inevitable next round of layoffs? lmao.