Reply To: The Random Post Thread (Game Potential)
I’d say go for the permanent job that you’re most comfortable with that has the shortest commute. 50% of the time you’ll be able to do stuff you can do with your eyes closed, and 50% of the time you’ll get to learn new things and stretch. There’s nothing about ecommerce that’s unlearnable.
In fact, maybe you’ll find that you like the ecommerce stuff so much that you’ can eventually transfer to doing it full time. I’ve got buddies who’ve worked at Verisign and later Paypal doing ecommerce stuff, and while it sounded like the dullest thing in the world to me, they were emphatic that everyone in the Valley will pay top dollar for a guy who knows how to build the thing that will make the company money.
I would say the biggest danger would be that they would genuinely intend on having you work 50% of the time on the old stuff but end up giving you 100% of the work, while still needing you to go 50% of the new stuff, which could also turn into 100% work. That’s 200% work. Not good.