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Tough Decision: Great job opportunity, bad location
GGKoul:
--- Quote from: Gunstar Hero on January 30, 2005, 01:13:20 am ---For a "slight" increase in pay? No way.
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Sephroth57:
i personally wouldnt do it, just because i wouldnt want to be away from my girlfriend for that long. Maybe if it was a pretty significant pay boost, like once youre working for a month youre gonna go check out the lexus dealer. but not if its just a little boost but a higher position
Thenasty:
making more $$$ is not all that crack up to be. I'll assume she's you r gilrfriend, If she's the right girl for you, 10 months without seeing, touching, playing and physical contact with her, might hurt you beutifull relationship in a bad way. Are you in a fincial trouble that you need more $$$ ? Maybe that extra cash they are offering is TINY to them becuase the way of living over there (might be expensive).
A good example would be, A person make just enought in the state where he/she is in and a job offer in another state almost a quarter moe of total per hour but the way of living in that state is way high in cost. Bottom line, it all evens out just the same if you stay where your at. If you move, you just gave yourself alot more work in traveling, packing etc.....and still want to leave that new job to move back where you started.
I say, if your happy there and money is just right, then stay. If you are not happy there or looking for more money, then look at the ads along where your'e at now.
Of course, this is just what I think, you yourself know whats best for you.
fredster:
It depends on what you want to do. If you love your woman and are afraid of leaving her for that long more than you love the money, or do you want to make a better life for the both of you?
Ask yourself if it's worth the effort and the investment. No pain no gain. No risk no reward.
Jobs and job offers come and go. There are millions of jobs you can either make or be hired for. This can't be the only opportunity you can have. This is just one you are looking at right now.
Only you can decide based on your drive.
abrannan:
I'll be a little more decisive than most of the other posts in this thread.
DON'T DO IT
You are robbing yourself of potential jobs by moving to a rural area. What happens when the company that is hiring you decides to go through a downsizing (I mean, rightsizing) effort, and decides that you are redundant overhead? What other similar type jobs for the same pay are available in that rural area? My guess is few to none. So, let's say that theoretically you can then find a company where you are currently that will hire you and pay relocation (Not very likely in more urban areas, they don't need to go outside their urban area to find warm bodies, but for the sake of this argument let's say that's the case). Now you have to move yourself and your S.O. another 700 miles just to end up back where you started. That's asking a lot of someone, to relocate twice in a relatively short period of time, with no regard to their career, etc.
And the payoff to this is, what? A little bit more money, and a *potential* bonus. My experience of potential bonuses is that they never live up to that potential. A bird in the hand and all that. Plus, you get a title. There are other ways to get that title. I find that working for a smaller company, you have more opportunity to get a good title, especially if you ask for it. Then you can parlay that title into a better position at a bigger company, since most HR doesn't check how large a company you came from. If I have a "Director of Information Technology Engineering" title from a small 50-man shop, I can pass the initial sniff test for the Director of IT position at a 1000-2000 person company. Once you get to the inital interview, then your personal skills come into play. You get the job, but your title opens the door.
But hey, that's just me...