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As long as you reasonably confident in the company's
new business plan and product offering, this sounds
like a great opportunity. It's the ol' risk/reward
equation again: you'll be taking on more risk, but
you've got the potential for signficant rewards in
terms of career advancement, challenging work, and so
on.
I spent three years building up a small tech pubs
group at a start-up and it as an experience I wouldn't
have wanted to miss.
If you stay where you are now, you may regret it.
Of course, having said all that, only you can figure
out how much risk you're prepared to accept at this
point in your career and your life.
./Scott
--
Scott Wahl
Senior Technical Writer
Research in Motion
www.rim.net
--- B Herring <herring_b -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
<snip>
> I have been asked to come back
> on board and put
> together a Technical Publications department ...
> This is an ideal opportunity for
> me and aligns with my career goals...the problem is,
> do I return to the company that just
> downsized and that still is operating on investment
> capital? My current position is stable, but not
> challenging, and I do
> not foresee a long-term
> future and certainly no opportunities for
> advancement.
</snip>
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