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If you lost your job would the next be better paying?

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GhostDoggy

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I work in the telecommunications industry. Ok, I work for an Evil Empire telephone company. I'm a represented employee and I get compensated fairly well--regardless if I had good work ethics or not. BTW, I have great work ethics, and my employer has stated more than once they wish they had multiples employees like me. This goes hand-in-hand with also having peers ask me not to work as hard/much.

If I were to lose my job today and I actively seeked and acquired a job closely to what I have been doing the past 5-6 years, I am pretty darn sure I would take a 25% pay cut because of the best opportunity would be in a unionless workplace. That's a tough pill to swallow.

If you were to lose your job today (provided you have been working there at least a couple of years now), would you find a replacement job in the same field paying the same, less, or more. How are your oppounities looking for your field?
 
I would make more. I work as a consultant in the Telecom market that right now is booming again. Over the last 5 years it has been stagnant at best. Now It looks much better job opportunity wise.
 
Absolutely! I'd probably go do 3 - 12 hr per diem shifts, but now it suits my evil little purposes to lay low and not strive to hard.
 
Depends. The job market is tight around here. I might be able to land a contract job that paid more, but the benefits would totally suck.
 
I'll take the liberty of replacing better paying with better compensated to account for benefits/satisfaction/any other factors that make your job good.

then I will choose less. If one could be better off, why wouldn't they be so already?
 
Since there are no other tech support positions in my little town, I am screwed. But, in as little as 1 week, I can go back to long haul trucking from ISP tech support and double my net income. I'd see more b00bies too...

You can't imagine how many women like flashing truckers.
 
I would say my chances are fairly decent that I would get a better paying if I was forced to switch jobs right now. More often than not, my job switchs are are in the upward direction.
 
Originally posted by: MonkeyK
I'll take the liberty of replacing better paying with better compensated to account for benefits/satisfaction/any other factors that make your job good.

then I will choose less. If one could be better off, why wouldn't they be so already?
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If I were to include benefits (e.g. health) then I would be in even more trouble. My health benefits currently are worth >$10K/year.
 
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