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Hello Blind, I’m currently in a very stressful position. Right now I’m a SWE intern at Red Hat, and I really enjoy the work that I do. Recently I was made another offer at a local company to work as an Integration Specialist, where I would be integrating an array of services through middleware. The company itself specializes in mainframes, and works with a variety of clients across different industries. They’re offering $65/hr or 135k annual, which blows what I’m currently making ($30/hr) out of the water. I’m definitely in a stage in my life where money is important, so I’m seriously considering it. However, I don’t know anything about mainframes, have no interest to learn, and feel seriously depressed thinking about being specialized in mainframe technology for the rest of my life. The money that it would bring would definitely help a ton with getting moved out from home. Since I still have a semester of school left, I’d like to optimize my remaining time however possible. At some point I would like to attend a good business school and receive an MBA, then work more closely with VC or starting companies. Not sure how this experience would play into my goals. #tech #tech What do you all think? YoE: 2 TC: 63k
That’s a huge bump in salary. If I were you, I would just take the job specially because your end goal is to do mba. From an mba application standpoint, it doesn’t matter whether you have worked on mainframe or your current domain.
2 options are here: 1) If ur MBA plan is concrete then work in the Mainframe company. Get ur MBA as planned since u can spin off ur work exp as per ur MBA requirements. 2) If u plan to stay in Tech then Mainframe wouldn't be go good for long run. Since u have red hat experience,u certainly will be a better job sometime in near future, it may not be 65$ perhour but hey it could be 50$ per hour n still fine. Choose ur option based on ur planning in long run
If you do take the mainframe job, make sure you don't stay too long or you could get that "mainframe expert" tag and that might be difficult to get rid off. I think the best course is to keep looking for other jobs. If your skills are worth $65 to one company, then they must be worth a similar number for other companies too. You will find a similar paying job in a field you like.
Always go for good money especially when your pay is increasing 200% But since you have a ton of time at hand, work yourself to pull yourself out of that situation, and as per redhat, you can always come back for a senior position if you leave on a good notice
Also check with your Manager for a full-time offer or other teams interesting to you at Red Hat. If you really like it here, why not let them try to make you a good offer as well? Right now you're an intern, of course a full-time offer beats that. I have a few friends specialized in Mainframes and they are both very good and love it. The stuff they do, I couldn't be happy with, but they love it, maybe you do too. But if you don't think so, you'll find something you like more, money shouldn't be the only reason to take a job.
Think how would this job helps next set of opportunities. Mainframes are outdated - critical for Some services though. But you won’t land in faang or hot startup with that on your resume. Why don’t try a better swe contracting job?