So, as you all know, I got the new job I wanted: editing and proofreading for a publishing company.
Here's the dilema....my current boss offered me a promotion and a good size raise to stay!!!
If I take the new job, I take a pay cut, and make about $27,000 a year. If I stay here, I get a raise to about $34,000 a year!!
But my current boss drives me crazy and I have always wanted a job in publishing. But right now $ is such an incentive with my debt...
I'm looking to my fellow bloggers and friends to help me figure this out...
ADVICE??????
HELP! ADVICE NEEDED ASAP!!
November 16th, 2006 at 03:27 pm
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November 16th, 2006 at 03:33 pm 1163691203
I'm a really indecisive person, so i hate being faced with Decisions For The Indecisive.
November 16th, 2006 at 03:46 pm 1163692006
i ask this because should it come to letting someone go in the future, it might be more likely someone will be let go that has already thought of leaving the company.
and i agree: your satisfaction with your job has to come into consideration. what good is making more money if you're so stressed by your job you wind up spending some of it? plus the growth potential for both locations over, say, the next 5 years.
November 16th, 2006 at 04:03 pm 1163693037
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November 16th, 2006 at 04:23 pm 1163694204
Are the benefits equal at the two jobs?
Do you know why the position is open at the new job?
(Will you be working for Cruella DeVille??)
Are you vested in a retirement plan??
Obviously there is much to consider. Id sit down and make a list of pros and cons of each before making a decision.
And then there's the old addage..."Do what you love and the money will follow"
Good luck with, what sounds like, a very tough decision.
November 16th, 2006 at 04:37 pm 1163695062
The potential for a raise is good at the new company. They already raised their starting offer once to get me tehre, and I was told in 6 months I will get a performance erview with a possible promotion/raise. The thing w/the promotion/raise at my current job is that I was told I'd be getting this in April anyways, so it's kinda of like they are just giving it to me early to get me to stay. And I will have no new responsibilities, just the actual title and salary of the work I already do everyday. Benefits are close to the same, vacation time is a little less at the enw job, but then again, I won;t need as many personal mental health days if I am no longer with my current boss.
With the new job, the company is in a major episode of expansion, so that is where the job poenings are coming from. I actually interviewed at this place about a year ago adn never got offered a job, so this is a big deal for me.
The advice about doing what you love and the money following are so very true...if only the money could follow quicker! LOL
November 16th, 2006 at 05:06 pm 1163696796
Plus I totally agree with the whole liking what you do is important. But thought I would point out another angle as well.
November 16th, 2006 at 06:54 pm 1163703299
However, I would take the new job. Sure, the new job may or may not pan out, but we are certain of a couple of things:
1. You've always wanted to do something that's being offered now in your new job.
2. Your current boss bothers you.
Given these known quantities, I would have taken my chances with the new job. After all, after a certain point, a job is more than just the money. You have to be happy with what you're doing too. In fact, I would go so far as to say that that is even more important than the money.
But again, that's just me.
November 16th, 2006 at 09:45 pm 1163713539
Go with the new job...with your dream. Think how many hours of your life you spend at work...spend it doing something you like and not something that makes you miserable.
Follow your gut. Sleep on it. You'll make the right decision.
Good luck.
November 17th, 2006 at 03:06 pm 1163775988
November 17th, 2006 at 08:33 pm 1163795592
Take it from me....I had started a job in pharmaceutical marketing/consulting that paid very well, but I hated it. My "dream job" as a medical writer opened up quite suddenly and I leaped at the chance, even though it meant taking a significant pay cut (and the ire of my crazy ex-boss, but that's her problem for being such a horrid tyrant). It was the BEST move I've ever made, and even more rewarding, I made the leap from science into writing even after all professors and PIs warned me I wouldn't be able to do it.