Hypothetical Dilemma
What would you do?
Stay at a job where you make a comfortable living, short commute, great friend working with you...but work that you don't really like and the boss drives you nuckin futs...
OR
Take a leap of faith, go to a job where you're doing things you only dreamed you'd get to do one day, but work for a small company with no benefits, not the greatest commute and almost half the pay of above job (tho room for growth based on performance)?
posted by Esther @ 9:37 PM
11 comments
11 Comments:
If you could afford it financially, the emotional benefits sure make the new job worthwhile. Healthwise the pleasure and challenge are better, and if the company is successful...
I have had an extreme case of this dilemma, Option 2 involving moving continents!
Took Option 2. Haven't regretted it. Life is about change and adventure.
Muse and Rory are right to point up the health issue, too.
Question to ask: How would I feel in ten years if I stayed doing what I'm doing? How would I feel about myself?
Tough one, though! Inertia is very seductive...
Take a leap of faith, go to a job where you're doing things you only dreamed you'd get to do one day, but work for a small company with no benefits, not the greatest commute and almost half the pay of above job (tho room for growth based on performance)?
Except for the growth part, this sounds like my current situation, and hey, I gotta get going on my twelve hour day right now!
This is a toughie.
Think hard on it and do a pro- and con- list. See which one outweighs the other. Aleways works for me.
Esther,
There is no choice to be made...
Take the leap, I would.
as long as you've got enough to pay the bills and eat then TAKE the leap, and even if you don't it's amazing how people managed to scrape by... Go for it
Go for the leap of faith if you can afford it!!
Can you live off of the lower salary? Can you afford to get sick without insurance?
If the answer is yes, to both, go for it.
Thanks for the great advice, everyone. Might be a moot point. New place was supposed to contact me today to talk about getting together again on Monday... but they haven't. Probably found a younger person whose salary needs aren't as... well... high. Though I would have worked with them. As for insurance, I'm never without it. But it costs a fortune so I'd really like a job that would pay for it. As I said, it might be moot now. Regardless, your comments were terrific! Thank you so much.
Esther,
I have found that doors open and doors close, both for reasons sometimes unknown to us.
The rules?
Never try to enter through a closed door and never fail to enter an open one.
Do that and things will always work out for the best.
I think I'm in the distinct minority where I stay where I am... any job is going to suck. That's why it's called work. If you can find some pleasure in your work, then what more can you really ask?
I'm very pragmatic. Can you tell?
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That's a wonderful way to put it, LA. Thanks.
Gindy, it's been around several years already and it just keeps growing.
BW, that's what I'm fighting...the pragmatic side. That and the side that is offended that with all my years in the field, they would be so freakin' cheap as to pay someone in that position so little. Course, if I get the job, I will be deleting this particular comment. ;)
patrick -- excellent point.
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