Leaving full time job for 1 year contract?

Hey all,

At a bit of an impasse here and could use some advice or guidance. I currently work as a network administrator for a small company but am underpaid for my current skill-set (38k/yr 4 years experience ) with decent benefits a 6% 401k match and short commute, I was recently offered a contract position for 60k/yr position for a large ISP but with no benefits and a 1hr commute.

Now I am weighing the pros/cons of the situation and from what I can tell my experience will not grow at my current position nor will my salary significantly except for COL raises, Taking the contract position is risky because of the lack of benefits and I am not sure if the contract is fixed period or AT-WILL, I am somewhat leaning toward the contract position to just get the experience then hopefully be in a better position next year to get a higher paying position. What would the intelligent folks here do in my situation?

I am 25 BTW and stay in the midwest

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Remedymp

Even if your commute is an hour, This is a step up for you. The title of Network Engineer with a possible AAS and some certs will make you very credible after a year.

Vertical career aspiration by a way of lateral transition is quite normal in IT. If you understand football, this would be considered a flea flicker.

Thexzeno

It is a W2

DatabaseHead

You are young, if you are healthy I think the extra pay and added responsibilities could be very helpful for your career. Like others have mentioned the drive will be terrible.

Could you potentially move closer to your place of employment if things go well at the position?

Thexzeno

DatabaseHead wrote: »

You are young, if you are healthy I think the extra pay and added responsibilities could be very helpful for your career. Like others have mentioned the drive will be terrible.

Could you potentially move closer to your place of employment if things go well at the position?

Yeah that wouldn't be an issue.

xxxkaliboyxxx

Sounds like you have your answer...