hello
I'm already two weeks in an extremely difficult position because I got 2 different job offers...
Actually, I graduated two years ago as Engineer Electronics and ICT... my final school project was implementing a microcontrolled system and I really really enjoyed it !!! At that moment two years ago I thought: I want a job exactly like this; I love this....
But right after school I needed as quickly as possible money... Two years ago it was very difficult to find a job... I had no money, so I took the first job offer that was available to me.... I started in a company where I had to program user interfaces and a little bit PCB design... But in fact, after two years in that company there was no more work for me since I had to do almost nothing else any more but plant-servicing all the time and this was really not my dreamjob... So I started searching another job four months ago... and a month later a contract was signed at a worldwide well-doing IT-company; my job there is now building applications in VB, C++, .NET, JAVA and JSP what I like very much !
BUT, last week I got another very good job offer from one of the best ranked Belgian companies where my job should be programming RTOS and programming controllers in assembler and C; a job very close to my final school project (what I also liked very much)...
Now I'm already a few weeks at that IT-company, programming in Java,C++ and .NET... At this company I can have e-courses of everything that has to do with IT on every moment.... I should have to do always projects of about 3 months, almost every time something else... I find this very very good to remain an up-to date engineer on every aspect of IT....
At that other company where I should make RTOS and program in C and asm I know they want to make a specialist of me on their systems since they mentioned it would take about a year before I learned everything there and. They are looking for someone that likes to stay for the rest of his life at that company as one of their specialists...
Now I really don't know what to choose... everytime i think about it what to choose, my heart begins beating so hard; this is the most difficult decission of my life.... until the great idea came up to me: asking it to as many as possible other engineers: on a forum like this...
So what do you think would be the best and the safest? I'm 24years old and I live in Belgium. I'm very afraid about the job about RTOS that one day, when I became a specialist on their systems and I loose this job for an unpredicted reason after let's say 15 years, that then it would be extremely difficult to get another job in Western Europe like that... because I see a lot of the High Tech Electronics Development is moving towards Asia... And what about my chances with C and ASM after let's say 15 years ???
At the company where I'm now, It's so great that I can follow very good e-courses when i want, about what i want and do always different projects (java, c++, .NET, linux, VB, etc etc)... I think, when I loose this job after 15years and i have experience on so many aspects of IT, that this is more safer for me to get another job here in Belgium...
If you ask me what job of the two I like the most (since they are very very different: pure IT vs Low-level), I would say: implementing low level systems.... (but i don't say that i don't like the IT job).
So make a choice upon my preferences is very difficult.... I need to make a choice upon the aspect: "staying safe for the future"...
Another thing: The IT job, it would take about 5 years before i deserve the same amount of money as when I start now with the RTOS job. (but the amount money they give me doesn't interest me).... the only thing I want is: "staying safe for the future"...
What do you think would be the safest here in western europe?
"the IT job where i can a lot of things on every aspect of IT" or the "RTOS job where i should become a specialist in one of the best ranked belgian companies"?
I'm also affraid that the development of the high-tech will become so expensive here in western europe (because of asia) that R&D (the RTOS job) is very dangerous here if I look forward to 15years later.... IT instead will remain more in western europe I think (financial services, banks, management of the multinationals, government....)
Next tuesday i have to make my decision, so i don't have much time anymore.... I hope as much as many people as possible give your opinion here to help me choose !!!! I really don't know what to choose.... What do you think that would be the best for me???
I'm already two weeks in an extremely difficult position because I got 2 different job offers...
Actually, I graduated two years ago as Engineer Electronics and ICT... my final school project was implementing a microcontrolled system and I really really enjoyed it !!! At that moment two years ago I thought: I want a job exactly like this; I love this....
But right after school I needed as quickly as possible money... Two years ago it was very difficult to find a job... I had no money, so I took the first job offer that was available to me.... I started in a company where I had to program user interfaces and a little bit PCB design... But in fact, after two years in that company there was no more work for me since I had to do almost nothing else any more but plant-servicing all the time and this was really not my dreamjob... So I started searching another job four months ago... and a month later a contract was signed at a worldwide well-doing IT-company; my job there is now building applications in VB, C++, .NET, JAVA and JSP what I like very much !
BUT, last week I got another very good job offer from one of the best ranked Belgian companies where my job should be programming RTOS and programming controllers in assembler and C; a job very close to my final school project (what I also liked very much)...
Now I'm already a few weeks at that IT-company, programming in Java,C++ and .NET... At this company I can have e-courses of everything that has to do with IT on every moment.... I should have to do always projects of about 3 months, almost every time something else... I find this very very good to remain an up-to date engineer on every aspect of IT....
At that other company where I should make RTOS and program in C and asm I know they want to make a specialist of me on their systems since they mentioned it would take about a year before I learned everything there and. They are looking for someone that likes to stay for the rest of his life at that company as one of their specialists...
Now I really don't know what to choose... everytime i think about it what to choose, my heart begins beating so hard; this is the most difficult decission of my life.... until the great idea came up to me: asking it to as many as possible other engineers: on a forum like this...
So what do you think would be the best and the safest? I'm 24years old and I live in Belgium. I'm very afraid about the job about RTOS that one day, when I became a specialist on their systems and I loose this job for an unpredicted reason after let's say 15 years, that then it would be extremely difficult to get another job in Western Europe like that... because I see a lot of the High Tech Electronics Development is moving towards Asia... And what about my chances with C and ASM after let's say 15 years ???
At the company where I'm now, It's so great that I can follow very good e-courses when i want, about what i want and do always different projects (java, c++, .NET, linux, VB, etc etc)... I think, when I loose this job after 15years and i have experience on so many aspects of IT, that this is more safer for me to get another job here in Belgium...
If you ask me what job of the two I like the most (since they are very very different: pure IT vs Low-level), I would say: implementing low level systems.... (but i don't say that i don't like the IT job).
So make a choice upon my preferences is very difficult.... I need to make a choice upon the aspect: "staying safe for the future"...
Another thing: The IT job, it would take about 5 years before i deserve the same amount of money as when I start now with the RTOS job. (but the amount money they give me doesn't interest me).... the only thing I want is: "staying safe for the future"...
What do you think would be the safest here in western europe?
"the IT job where i can a lot of things on every aspect of IT" or the "RTOS job where i should become a specialist in one of the best ranked belgian companies"?
I'm also affraid that the development of the high-tech will become so expensive here in western europe (because of asia) that R&D (the RTOS job) is very dangerous here if I look forward to 15years later.... IT instead will remain more in western europe I think (financial services, banks, management of the multinationals, government....)
Next tuesday i have to make my decision, so i don't have much time anymore.... I hope as much as many people as possible give your opinion here to help me choose !!!! I really don't know what to choose.... What do you think that would be the best for me???