Friday, September 12, 2008
What would you do?
So, I was offered a job with the county a few days ago. It essentially pays $15,000 more to start than my current job, has guaranteed job security, great benefits, and a minimum 6% pay raise each year. It's also a supervisory position, so I could easily go the administrative route with my career...and with the county that means big, big money in just a few short years. The position is however with CPS - a broken system here in Nevada. It would either be investigative or working in permanency and there would inevitably be strict scrutiny, a great deal of pressure, and a very heavy case load. The position would not be clinical (providing therapy). I would be assigned a unit which would determine my location and work schedule - could be anything from on call 24/7 to four 10 hr days. My dilemma is this, although my current job is very taxing emotionally, it's all clinical (which I love), I have everything I could want there - a huge play room, well stocked with all the greatest toys, an art room with all the supplies you could imagine, a comfortable office, complete autonomy, only a 15-20 minute drive from home, great flexibility (I make my own schedule), and my clinical director is a brilliant Princeton educated psychologist. That said, the future of the agency is unstable under the current executive director. Although I think I've made my decision, what would you do? I have to let them know Monday.
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there's something to be said for having a job you love, but there's also something to be said for stability and being able to reach other kinds of goals, too. Tough decision. Good luck!
To us, work schedule trumps most anything else (within reason). Joe loves GE because it's a flexible 8-5 type job, easy to take off whenever he needs to during the day, can just "let go" and have his evenings and weekends for family only. Unless it were a short term thing with an extreme pay raise, this just doesn't sound like it'd be worth the stress. You and Mike like having your evenings to yourselves to relax, watch movies, go out, have friends... how annoying it'd be to be on call, it'd probably drive me crazy. A routine is just so nice and makes a home feel so much better & stable. Well, there's my opinion! :) Good luck!
funny you ask...I just had this conversation with my fellow jurors (yes, you read correctly, jurors) last week. It's a hard decision: money or happiness. Which do you sacrifice? For me it would be money. I've been in that position where I worked in a job I hated but it paid well and everything in my life suffered, esp. my home life. I would never do that again. We are currently in the same situation...do we move and sacrifice Aaron's great job/pay to be closer to family? Never easy decisions to make. Good luck!
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