Need help(job)
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Need help(job) So I have been looking for a new job for 3 months. I really need to leave where I am now. I have two job opportunities that I am debating against. The first one is at a federal credit union. It will pay me around 40K a year but it will result in me driving about an hour to work. This is about what I make now. The other would be working for a tire shop. I would be the store manager and make about 10K more a year. The credit unions hours and benefits are fantastic, but the money is less. The tire place is closer and more money. It will also be more hours and a lot more stressful. I have been in banking for the last 6 years and was thinking its time for a change. I will be graduating in May with my degree in Management Studies and a minor in HR. I think the tire place fits my career goals more but would result in less time for home work. Any advice/ opinions would be great.
Do what makes you happy...
And if you do it well enough, eventually someone will notice, and you will get a job where you're compensated for your hard work.
Ive held about 12 different jobs since I was 16, but I started at my current company in January as a manufacturing engineer, and was recently promoted off the production floor into the nice AC'd office to be a sales engineer. I absolutely love manufacturing and I have a lot of pride in my company, America, and making THINGS.
I hope this somehow can inspire you to go the direction you want to go in your life. Don't hesitate!
And if you do it well enough, eventually someone will notice, and you will get a job where you're compensated for your hard work.
Ive held about 12 different jobs since I was 16, but I started at my current company in January as a manufacturing engineer, and was recently promoted off the production floor into the nice AC'd office to be a sales engineer. I absolutely love manufacturing and I have a lot of pride in my company, America, and making THINGS.
I hope this somehow can inspire you to go the direction you want to go in your life. Don't hesitate!
I'm a service advisor for a LARGE volume store, my honest recommendation. Stay away, it consumes your life, leaves you almost no free time, and that extra 10k a year, you'll spend that on booze and advil. I wish I could get out. I'm about 70% done my bachelors in business management and once I'm done I'm out of that industry.
I love my job can't you tell
I love my job can't you tell
If you can, I'd ride out where you are until you get done with school, and make one change, and make it be a good one.
Driving an hour (I assume that's farther then you go now) for the same $, is essentially taking a pay cut on the bottom line. Going for 10 grand a year, for a big increase in hours, and potentially hurting your school, or worse case preventing you from graduating would be a very bad idea at this stage of things.
Unless your current place is closing, moving, or you're about to get the boot, I'd stay where you are until you're done with school.
Driving an hour (I assume that's farther then you go now) for the same $, is essentially taking a pay cut on the bottom line. Going for 10 grand a year, for a big increase in hours, and potentially hurting your school, or worse case preventing you from graduating would be a very bad idea at this stage of things.
Unless your current place is closing, moving, or you're about to get the boot, I'd stay where you are until you're done with school.
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that is the main reason I was thinking about the tire place. I have to get out of my current job, it is horrible there. The credit union has better hours adn a relaxed envirnment. I know the hours at the tire place would be nuts so not sure I would want that. Leaning twords going with the credit union. Sometimes time is more importaint than money.
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I'm a service advisor for a LARGE volume store, my honest recommendation. Stay away, it consumes your life, leaves you almost no free time, and that extra 10k a year, you'll spend that on booze and advil. I wish I could get out. I'm about 70% done my bachelors in business management and once I'm done I'm out of that industry.
I love my job can't you tell
I love my job can't you tell
that is the main reason I was thinking about the tire place. I have to get out of my current job, it is horrible there. The credit union has better hours adn a relaxed envirnment. I know the hours at the tire place would be nuts so not sure I would want that. Leaning twords going with the credit union. Sometimes time is more importaint than money.
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Thanks for all your input. Fran wanna hire me to sit around your shop?