How much of a pay cut would you be willing to take?
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Enjoying your job **is**important: you spend 1/3 of your life asleep, 1/3 at work and (it seemed to at one stage) 1/3 commuting to work.
It's funny you should mention that. My boss's boss was trying to give us a pep-talk about how he sees the importance of developing staff (despite the fact that we don't have a dedicated budget for training) and said something about how we give them an hour of work, they give us money for it, and at the end of your life you won't be able to give that money back and get back those hours. Which made me think "holy crap, I need to find a new job", which I think was the exact opposite of what he was trying to achieve.
Wjousts wrote:
holy crap, I need to find a new job
Perhaps you answered your own question. As a corollary, which I call Murphy's Law of Programming, whenever I am in the midst of a programming problem and I am tired of looking at Google, I will go to a colleague. The question is no sooner out of my mouth than I think of the answer. "Never mind." Sometimes it helps to just put it in words.
What me worry?
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I'm fed up with my current job and see very little in the way of prospects going forward. I have an offer on the table for another job that I think will be really cool in ways my current job can never hope to be. But, and here's the rub, it would involve taking a hit in the region of $16k/yr in salary (and the health benefits are about twice as much too). My head says "NO!", but my heart says "erm...maybe?"
Wjousts wrote:
My head says "NO!", but my heart says "erm...maybe?"
Presumably you already negotiated with them. And regardless if you turn it down that make it explicit that you would accept if they offered you more money. In that case they might up their offer.