I have to buy a car, in this market!
In order to do it, I will need to unleash every negotiation trick in the playbook, including this old classic.
I spent a majority of my professional career working in professional service agencies. Now that I am working with professional service agencies from the perspective of the organization REQUESTING the professional service, I have a lot of perspective.
Ever since I started my professional career, all I have known is time logging.
You can practically measure the expressions of people who drive by as I walk to get my coffee every morning. Baggy sweatpants with holes. Big gaudy headphones. Band sweatshirt.
Have you never done a contract-to-hire position before? I had never heard of it before, but when I quit my last job earlier this year (2022) and started looking around, I saw this type of role all over the place.
I just recently accepted an offer for a full-time, salaried position at a job in which I started as a contract-to-hire for six months.
This is what I learned.