Background: I'm a college student right now living paycheck to paycheck in sunny, yet expensive, San Diego.
So I have a really nice IT job right now at a law firm, pays $15/hour for hours up to 30/week but then again, I never have that kind of time when the firm's open (9a-5p) with school to make those hours. So I applied for a second IT job that's like 5 minutes from my house. It's mostly a web design job for an IT firm and I think it'd be an awesome way to learn about IT and how a professional company does it. I have to call in and negotiate my hours and salary next. So here's the good and the bad (and the stuff I don't know about... so if you've been a manager before, please help!):
1) I don't need a second job, it'd be nice to make the extra cash, especially since most of the work will be done remotely (updating websites, creating pages, etc.) so I can do it on my 2 hour breaks from school on the laptop.
2) For this type of job, how much is +$15/hour worth to the company? I'm only working ~10 hours a week for this new company and I really want to negotiate a salary higher or equal to the one I have now. Otherwise simple economics tells me that the opportunity cost of working for this company is the price of my current job. I can't take a job paying $12/hour when I can easily make $15/hour over here.
3) For an IT firm is $15/hour or basically $150/week in my case too much to handle? I know to a law firm it's chump change.
4) Would taking this job for less than my salary be worth the experience I get (and essentially put on my resume)? I mean, if I work at this new job long enough, it'll eventually make me more valuable to my firm no? Thus they have to increase my salary?
I'm seriously trying to brush up on my business negotiating skills because I want to attend business school in the future, but I'm starting to think I'm a poon if I can't even negotiate a high salary even when I know the job's not all necessary and I can go without it.
So I have a really nice IT job right now at a law firm, pays $15/hour for hours up to 30/week but then again, I never have that kind of time when the firm's open (9a-5p) with school to make those hours. So I applied for a second IT job that's like 5 minutes from my house. It's mostly a web design job for an IT firm and I think it'd be an awesome way to learn about IT and how a professional company does it. I have to call in and negotiate my hours and salary next. So here's the good and the bad (and the stuff I don't know about... so if you've been a manager before, please help!):
1) I don't need a second job, it'd be nice to make the extra cash, especially since most of the work will be done remotely (updating websites, creating pages, etc.) so I can do it on my 2 hour breaks from school on the laptop.
2) For this type of job, how much is +$15/hour worth to the company? I'm only working ~10 hours a week for this new company and I really want to negotiate a salary higher or equal to the one I have now. Otherwise simple economics tells me that the opportunity cost of working for this company is the price of my current job. I can't take a job paying $12/hour when I can easily make $15/hour over here.
3) For an IT firm is $15/hour or basically $150/week in my case too much to handle? I know to a law firm it's chump change.
4) Would taking this job for less than my salary be worth the experience I get (and essentially put on my resume)? I mean, if I work at this new job long enough, it'll eventually make me more valuable to my firm no? Thus they have to increase my salary?
I'm seriously trying to brush up on my business negotiating skills because I want to attend business school in the future, but I'm starting to think I'm a poon if I can't even negotiate a high salary even when I know the job's not all necessary and I can go without it.
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