Would you move to another state for a $30k signing bonus, sort of?

[JEDI]

New job is 200miles away.
The $30k isnt pure profit. It covers any incedentals i might have, including moving expenses, paying both rent and mortgage till my house sells, etc. Everything is lumped in the $30k.

I'm single, no kids, and broke up w/gf recently. But i'll be leaving friends. (I'm terrible at making close friends.)

New job pays pays basically the same as old job. Benefits are similiar. It's a lateral move career wise. Current job is eh. I'm ambilvalent about staying or leaving.

There's alot that needs fixing at my house, like cracked drywall, rotting wood, replacing front steps. i probably also need a new a/c compressor. An uneducated guess about the cost is about $7k.

Lets say the move and other incedentals cost $3k, so the profit from my bonus is only $20k. and it drops the longer i have to pay for both an apt and a mortgage.

$20k is nice, but i already have over a year's expenses in the bank already.

So basically, go thru all this trouble for $20k when i'm comfortable already?

 

[Mrfrog840]

no

 

[mugs]

Bad deal.

 

[Cattlegod]

if the pay is the same, the area isn't different, and you are leaving your friends. i'd say nah, I wouldn't do it.

 

[puffff]

for a lateral move career wise? no, not worth it.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: JEDI
It's a lateral move career wise. Current job is eh.

no

 

[Tiamat]

no, i wouldnt do that. Maybe if it was for 20% salary increase and the signing bonus.

 

[thomsbrain]

no, not if you have to leave your friends and you have a hard time making new ones. i think you'll be pretty lonely at the new place, and you won't have enough fun with $20K to make up for it.

 

[doze]

Not unless you have lots of bills to pay or the new job is in a much better location

What kind of contract do you have to sign for the 30K, like what happens if the job blows and you want to quit or move

 

[Yossarian]

no way dude. $20k isn't that much, relatively speaking.

 

[Finality]

Originally posted by: puffff
for a lateral move career wise? no, not worth it.

Mention that to the company that made you the offer. They might sweeten the offer.

 

[secretanchitman]

no way. stay where you are and be happy!

 

[Macattak1]

Greetings,

I don't know you so I am not sure how much of this will apply.

It is not all about the money right? Esle you would not be even considering it.
Sometimes things get presented to us at the right time in our life. Where you are at now, are you going anywhere job wise? Do you see a better future, promotion, etc. in the next year or two? Do you even want that where you are now?

Where are you going to? If it does not work out is there equal, better, or worse job opportunities? Is the acutal job provide better oportunities than you have now? Anything you really like about where you are now geographicly, weather, sports, outdoors, etc.? How about where your going? Bars, nightclubs and such are not what I am looking at here.

Going to have kids someday? Schools any good where you are now? Where your going better or worse? Quality of schools tells alot about a community. Check out greatschools.net

Though I love my friends there is a time to not worry about where you live friends wise. Often friends you meet in college can be life long friends as you meet them in classes of mutual interest, etc. There is a cominality bond found at school. However, when you are ~25 to ~35 you may see your friends moving away. That is what people do. New jobs, new opportunities, a place they always wanted to go to, etc. Then when you hit ~40 to ~45 people tend to be where they want to be for likely the rest of their lives and those friends are often life long friends also. Commonality is kids, schools, work, outdoors, church, other activities.

Point is that if you stay somewhere because of friends and those friends are getting to the point of graduating or have recently graduated or are in that age range you may find that they only stay local for another 5 years or so. Then they tend to get experience on the job, improve their finances, etc. Then they go and branch out and move away. Few people stay where they are for long before they have kids.

If your not going to have kids, your friends are not going to, and people are not going anywhere, well, you might find that stagnating over time? Growth is what it is about. Don't stay somewhere just because of friends. You may find that they don't mimic that as well as you and 10 years later you are the only one left in 'town'.

Peace and Blessings

 

[RichardE]

20k is not worth the loneliness you will have if you are bad at making friends. It will suck.

 

[Gunslinger08]

$20k isn't worth it for me to see my friends and family once every few months or once a year instead of every week or so.

 

[PingSpike]

Doesn't really sound like that good of a deal.

 

[MixMasterTang]

200 Miles is only a 3 hour drive, it's not like your moving across country. But I wouldn't change jobs just for a bonus, only if there is better career advancement or if you would enjoy the new job more.

 

[RossMAN]

Bad deal, pass.

 

[miri]

That depends

What is the old city and what is the new city?

I would move if the 200 miles would put me next to the ocean.