Decisions, Decisions

A few weeks ago Aaron's work did so layoffs. Even the CIO was laid off. Aaron has been with this company for 8 years now and every year they do these layoffs. He has always been very lucky (knock on wood) to not be hit with a layoff. This time was no different. He is still gainfully employed.

In light of these layoffs though, we decided it was time to put some resumes out there and see what happened. First he was called by a headhunter. She wanted us to pay her $6000+ to fix his resume and train him to interview. We decided we'd be better off to pay a resume writer a couple of hundred dollars to clean up his resume. He was also called by a company that works on government contracts. He went on the first of these interviews yesterday.

The interview went great, apparently. So well infact that within an hour after the interview he was offered the position. We are still thinking about this. This position takes him out of management and back into programming (but for a good bit more money). He's not sure he wants to do that. The biggest issue however is that it is a contract position. It's only slated at 6 months right now. It could be extended and it could become a permanent position. But, right now it is a contract which means we would lose all of our current benefits i.e. health insurance, 401-K, vacation, sick days, pay while on Reserve duty, etc.

He has a couple more phone interviews to do today. There is one in AL and one in VA. He also has a lead on a job back in Greenville, SC. There's also one right here in Denver. So we have choices and decisions to make. The big question is do we stay with what we are comfortable with and hope we don't get a layoff or do we take a leap of faith and move on?