Job Offer

[4 cam torino]

I'm not currently a fan of my job or the company's situation with my division having recently been sold to an investment firm that wants to grow the division but is clearly focusing on other parts of the division. I still have a job and there is no imminent signs that I will lose it but I didn't really like my job before and the sale kind of eliminated any potential moves to interesting jobs in the company because potentially interesting jobs are with the part of the company that didn't get sold.

Today I received an offer to work for another company. The pay would be very slightly less. Less than $1000 per year less. The commute would double, currently 10-11 miles to around 20 to get from my house to the offer location. So that's two strikes against it. Vacation would be the same. Benefits they are sending over information for me to look at but I'm assuming they are similar. The job still isn't really what I'd like to be doing but I would have the opportunity to move to more interesting things within the company in a couple years. If the job was exactly what I wanted to do now it would be a no brainer, but it isn't so the move would really just be for the opportunity for future things in the company. I just have to figure out if it's worth it. One factor is, will another opportunity come along that is what I want to be doing. I don't really want to start somewhere and quit shortly thereafter for another job.

Decisions, decisions.

[SHIFTER]

Do it if theres a good chance you can advance more than you can in your current position. Plus even the thought of an uncertainty in your job sucks... another reason to move on before you loose it.

Who knows though.

[4 cam torino]

The biggest thing is that I don't think the new job will ever be exactly what I want to be doing no matter how I move within the company. It has the potential to be better than what I'm going but still not the potential to be an ideal job. And if I take it and something else would come along in the short term, I wouldn't feel right dumping the new job for another new job nor would that look good. I do have a lead on another job and a friend talking to his bosses for me about getting me a job there but nothing has happened yet. That job would be something I really want to do. So it comes down to the job I've been offered looking better than the one I have but really being a completely lateral move that might keep me from taking a better job that I would really want if it came along. The old saying goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. But in this case I've got one in a cage at home already.

[LNKMK8]

If it is for Saleen, Roush, or Ford, DO IT! ;)

Thomas

[4 cam torino]

It's not for any of those or it would already be done. Although I have a line on a job at GM. That would be weird wouldn't it?

[Mr. Jeff]

what do you do?

[4 cam torino]

Right now I'm doing Applications Engineering for hoses. Applications Engineering is lame, you aren't really engineering anything significant. Some tolerance stack ups on things is really the extent of any engineering to it. Kind of lame. Most of it is low level project management and annoying crap. There's more to it than that but it's nothing at all cool. The job I have been offered is applications engineer for CV joints. A more mechanical part than a hose but still applications engineering. But since it is more mechanical there is opportunity to move around in the company to something that is better than applications engineering. Hoses are not mechanical at all, to get anything cool related to hoses you have to be a chemical engineer.

[coop]

im "sortof" looking for work right now too....lots of decisions that i need to figure out too...

i say go for the job if in the end you will be more happy...

[David]

so the one that in the end will pay more money?