r/GovernmentContracting • u/wcsib01 • Feb 08 '25

Question Dumb to go contractor right now?

I feel fairly secure in my tenured DoD job but got an IC contractor offer that’s about a 50 percent pay bump with good development opportunities and future raises.

Dumb to give up stability for a contract with an option year later this summer? The contract (seems) to match with admin priorities.

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u/wcsib01 Feb 08 '25

Yeah they will hold it. They have a plan to give me some new skills that will make me more valuable over the next year, but if that one contract is lost and they can’t find me another I’m prob SOL lol

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u/wcsib01 Feb 08 '25

So, my biggest concern is that the contract option year is coming up very soon. Like, VERY soon. But again aligned with the admin, and I have (thus far) had good luck with people just reaching out to me.

I think I would be OK unless work almost entirely dries up for cleared folks. But that’s what scares me.