Re: Decision to make?

- Money
- Job satisfaction
- Ratio of effort to money
Not necessarily in that order.

There's a balance between Money and Job Satisfaction.  Well, the first is 
that you have to be making enough for food, clothing and shelter.  But 
after that, if one job pays more and you look at it like it's just a job 
and you can get your satisfaction elsewhere, downhill skiing for example 
then you may pick between two jobs by the money involved.  Then again, if 
you then get offered a job as a pro at a downhill ski resort with only a 
minuscule cut in pay but free skiing for you and your family (and in a 
region with a comparable cost of living) then you may take that cut in 
pay.  Some people like to code like others like to ski.

Ratio of effort to money.  If you have to work 80 hours/week to make 10% 
more than what you'd make at a 40/hours week job, what do you do?  Do you 
still enjoy the job that much?  Do you need the 10% so bad that if you 
switch your kid's going to die from lack of medical treatment?

Renegotiation.  The headhunters will tell you that you can get by with 
that once, and only once, in your employment lifetime with a single 
company.  And they mainly mean that if you go to the boss and say "pay me 
x% more or I'll go to ... who has already offered me the position" then 
don't ever try that again with your same employer replacing ... with an 
offer of employment from yet another company.  Granted they may be biased 
because they just lost a commission but I still think there's some truth 
to that.
Didn't you already try to talk to them about changing duties?  What makes 
the ultimatum carry any more weight?  You gave them enough time to think 
if there is a possibility, right?  Granted, this may take months, after 
you planted the seed.

Does anyone know of anyone who went to the dark side (SQL Server and .NET) 
of employment, who was there long enough to have given it an honest try, 
and who has come back to the iSeries?

Rob Berendt