would you take a job you probably won't like for a %15 raise?

[brianmanahan]

say you had been offered the chance to take another position. more responsibility, more people to manage, probably more meetings, plus having to provide on-call 24/7 support about %25 of the time. all that for about %10-%20 more pay per year.

would you do this?

 

[Farang]

Absolutely not. I'm probably going to take a 50% pay cut to get out of a job I don't like going to.

What's the point of more money if you're miserable.

 

[Meghan54]

say you had been offered the chance to take another position. more responsibility, more people to manage, probably more meetings, plus having to provide on-call 24/7 support about 25% of the time. all that for about 10% - 20% more pay per year.

would you do this?

ftfy

 

[sdifox]

fuck no. of the 15% raise you probably take home 6%.

I took a 30% raise to a job I did not like. biggest mistake of my career.

 

[brianmanahan]

ftfy

wait what did you fix?

 

[Dedpuhl]

no

 

[shortylickens]

Nope.
I already had a nice salary with shitty work. Made me miserable. Killed my health. Would not do again. (Though right now I'd take any job.)

 

[DCal430]

Why do you write %10 instead of 10%?

 

[brianmanahan]

Absolutely not. I'm probably going to take a 50% pay cut to get out of a job I don't like going to.

What's the point of more money if you're miserable.

save more, retire earlier?

 

[brianmanahan]

Why do you write %10 instead of 10%?

that is the way i have always been tought to write it

 

[Farang]

save more, retire earlier?

That is a valid point--I think you should take advantage of any time you can save a ton of money, because there are going to be ups and downs.

But 15% isn't really that much more. When you take into account taxes, and most peoples tendency to spend more when they make more, you're probably not saving a hell of a lot more money.

 

[Spacehead]

What's the point of more money if you're miserable.

What he said.

 

[PingSpike]

save more, retire earlier?

LOL, retire.

I would only even consider this (on call 24/7...god damn) if I couldn't afford my current expenses without the raise.

 

[MotionMan]

say you had been offered the chance to take another position. more responsibility, more people to manage, probably more meetings, plus having to provide on-call 24/7 support about %25 of the time. all that for about %10-%20 more pay per year.

would you do this?

Would the position also require me to put the % sign in front of numbers instead of after them?

MotionMan

 

[Rage187]

Hell no.

 

[Bignate603]

that is the way i have always been tought to write it

That goes against the way that percentages are typically written. You haven't noticed that?

 

[Sheep]

Considering how much of your life you're going to spend working (and it sounds like it could be significantly more if you'd be on call 24/7), 15% isn't worth it if you're going to be miserable.

 

[masterxfob]

Absolutely not. I'm probably going to take a 50% pay cut to get out of a job I don't like going to.

What's the point of more money if you're miserable.

i did this 3 years ago and have never been happier. i may actually be making only 40% of what i used to.

 

[Demo24]

I'd probably just ask for a raise at my current location and take whatever they offer.

I could probably make more than I do now at another place, but I'm happy with the job I have now and see no good reason to move on. Besides, some work at moderate pay is better than no work and no pay.

 

[classy]

10-20% is a lot. It depends on what is the actual gain, is it 20K, 15K more a year? What is the actual gain?

 

[sdifox]

10-20% is a lot. It depends on what is the actual gain, is it 20K, 15K more a year? What is the actual gain?

you are forgetting that is the portion that is taxed most.

 

[classy]

you are forgetting that is the portion that is taxed most.

I am not forgetting anything. It really depends on what is the actual gain.

 

[MustISO]

Last year I had to decide between two jobs with $20,000+ difference. I went with the lower paying job because I would have been miserable at the other job.

 

[brianmanahan]

10-20% is a lot. It depends on what is the actual gain, is it 20K, 15K more a year? What is the actual gain?

it'd probably be 10$k or so

 

[MotionMan]

Well, at least OP doesn't put dollar signs in the wrong place.

MotionMan