@pendrag I’ve been told that those of us on the SharePoint side won’t have as much to do when on call as compared to others on the team, other than being the first responder to priority incidents, which hopefully aren’t too frequent. We shall see!

@Consequences Thanks! I think it really will be, but I know that if for some reason it turns out to suck, I can always look again. I’ve gotten pretty good at it lately, though the search and interview process can at times be draining.

Update: I decided on the in-house IT role over the consulting role, mainly because I want to get back to working in something other than Exchange administration/O365 mailbox migrations, which I’ve been doing a while now. I am hopeful that I made the right choice. The pay and benefits were similar at both, and both a step up from my current contractor role. The only drawback to the one I chose is an on-call rotation, but the other would require after-hours work, too.

@pendrag The thing is, I have no personal contacts who have worked at either, but I did some research into both and of course I found some with good things to say & some with bad things to say, which seems to be normal.

Good luck in your search, and I hope you end up with multiple offers, too! 👍🏼

@ianthealy Well, one is in-house IT for a company and the other is a consulting gig with a national consulting firm/hardware & software reseller. The in-house IT role involves O365/SharePoint engineering, so not as much user support. The consulting role is more Exchange/migration to O365-focused, but there’s no telling what ages & levels of understanding I would encounter on various projects with them.

@ianthealy That is something I wish I knew at this point, but that’s a wait-and-see sort of thing. I’m hopeful that cameras won’t always be required at either. I’m in IT, so many of us keep cameras off in our calls (at my current workplace and most recent past ones) by default.

@ianthealy Well, both are 100% WFH, which is exactly what I wanted, so they have the same snacks - whatever’s at my house. Since they are WFH, they also both offer wonderful cat co-workers as moral support. 😺

@misslovelymess That’s a good approach! I actually have one review I’d love to leave for a place that was definitely not a good experience for me, but I have refrained for fear I might not be anonymous enough.

@misslovelymess Yeah, I haven’t gotten to look much at Glassdoor lately because I keep getting prompted not only to login, but also to post a review about some of my workplaces. I wind up looking at Indeed and others instead.

@annamuneca This is good advice. I’ve been doing this to the extent possible for each place. Sometimes it’s hard to see info on some companies on certain platforms. I think there are good and bad aspects to both, and the same can be said for the jobs I’m being offered specifically.

TFW you have been looking for a better job for a few months, interviewed for several, and now have 2 great job offers, have made your pros and cons list, talked it out with loved ones, and still can’t make a choice. It’s a nice problem to have, but also frustrating for someone like me, who looks for all the info to make a choice and then second-guesses my decision once made. Argh. Can anyone relate or offer any general advice? I need to make the decision and stop thinking about it.

I finished reading my latest book of 2022 last week. This one was quick & fascinating. It is a bit of a departure for me, though I’ve always had some interest in astrology, but it definitely shed light on aspects of my personality & things in my life beyond the basics of “What’s your sign?”. I heard Chani Nicholas on one of my favorite podcasts & had to find out more. If you have an interest in astrology, I highly recommend this. #JaynasBookClub #Gemini #VirgoMoon #VirgoRising #OpenCarryBooks

Roscoe (like the rest of us) misses Mikey (in the pic here from a few months ago on the loveseat), but he’s still been enjoying playing, conducting neighborhood watch, & napping in fun places like my hamper. He hopes you have a wonderful #CoSoCaturday. 😺 #CatsOfCoSo

It’s frustrating, because Mikey is yet another of our kitties who ultimately was done in by kidney disease. This is after he fought for nearly 2 and 1/3 years against lymphoma and IBD, and he was still doing well in that fight until the kidney disease came on only 2 months ago and accelerated to end stage only within the last couple of weeks. Despite our best efforts to treat with daily subcutaneous fluids, it was all too much for him.

@ShowDemKitties Wow! That’s terrible. We lost 3 of ours between July 2018 and Nov 2019 due to various illnesses that they fought valiantly for as long as they could (at least 2 of the 3 were most definitely senior kitties, but it was still heartbreaking), and we thought that was excessive.

Thank all of you for your kind words and thoughts. 💜💛

@ShowDemKitties I’m so sorry for your loss! Even if you’ve been through it before, it doesn’t get easier.

@sfleetucker Awe! Tell adorable Carrot thank you. 💜💛

Just a couple more Mikey pics. He was so adorable and had such a fun personality. #CoSoCaturday #CatsOfCoSo

More pics of our sweet Mikey. Hold your animal companions close and give them all your love. #CoSoCaturday #CatsOfCoSo