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Job offer acceptance |
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Would you like your new location? |
| Date Posted: |
10/04/2004 |
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Some good advice pattersb. Just to throw my two cents in, many of the career books that I have read say that you should change jobs at the peak, as you're dealing from a position of strength, not when you desparately hate your job. Also, you sound pretty luke warm about where you're at right now. I know that a baby is a hassle (trust my, we had our second child as my husband was doing a career switch) but if this job is something you'd like to be doing long term, then some short term pain is worth the hassle.
Good luck.
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I think there are two major issues to consider:
1) Is the new job better than the old job and an increase in pay and responsibility (not a lateral move)?
2) Is the new city a place you would enjoy living in if you lost the job, and do you think the economy is such that you could find something else if you lost the new job?
I know several people who moved across the country for jobs with different companies, only to lose the job 6 months later in a layoff! (Ugly.) So unless they are offering some type of contract in writing (doubtful), think about how you would handle that if it happened.
I personally made the mistake of changing jobs, primarily b/c I didn't like the manager. I was aggressively recruited by another company and switched based on the manager that recruited me.
Big mistake! Less than a year after I made the move, the manager that had lured me over to the new job was gone. Back at my old job, the manager I couldn't stand was replaced by a much better person. The moral is don't base your decision on things that can quickly change (your boss). If you really like the job and/or where you are living, you can make the rest of it work.
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