I need some serious career mentorship with this question and I would appreciate any help.
I am young who has started out his career not too long ago. I've been working as a federal contractor and have landed an opportunity with the feds. The problem is that they're way to technologically behind and it will make me unemployable after some time. The work that I am doing is not even adding too much value or making me marketable for my next job.
However, my family is under the assumption that I should go to feds and leave the private world altogether. I have taken the time to discuss this with several other employees and managers and they all have warned me not to go to feds for the sake of my career. My family is standing strong in the decision and wanting me to choose the federal world over private.
This entire issue results in heated arguments and nothing gets accomplished.
One of the reasons is that they believe I am not fast enough for private world and I could end up losing my job at any time. As a high-functioning autism, I may not be able to hold down a job or be a team player and these are the big fears. I am not really that confident in my programming abilities either as I don't have a good computer science foundation. In the fed world, its job security with good benefits (I think). In my current job, I have been performing well and I know I'll continue to do so. My fed manager already likes me so they believe I should choose them over my private company and leave.
Ultimately, the decision is mine to make. I am still not too sure why it makes sense to go to feds over staying in private? At this point, I am young and completely confused.
I know I am an adult and this is a very immature question to ask but I don't have a good support group to seek advice with. If you were in my shoes, can anyone please help me what and how would you have made this decision? Would you have gone to the fed world or stayed in private?
Thank you for your time!
Submitted April 21, 2019 at 10:40AM by cvnnd http://bit.ly/2ZlHkPf
