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re: Tough career decision
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:00 pm to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:00 pm to SidewalkTiger
Job jumping is a big no for me when the small gig does not work out. Put down roots, compete. This is the equivalent of transfer portal.
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Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:10 pm to SidewalkTiger
Just make the gahdamn fries.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:14 pm to SidewalkTiger
we pay out of the arse for health insurance. Price it and it may make your decision clear.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:17 pm to SidewalkTiger
How much growth is there for you really at the small gig? If you don’t share the same last name as the owner, it probably isn’t what you think it will be.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:18 pm to SidewalkTiger
It’s a risk but this is the best time in your life to try something like this. Once kids show up you are going to be much more conservative in your choices. I say go for it.
Also, unless she’s at the gym all day keeping it tight the stay at home wife needs to step up a little
Also, unless she’s at the gym all day keeping it tight the stay at home wife needs to step up a little
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:19 pm to SidewalkTiger
Managing people is a pain in the arse. Couple that with no benefits, and I can’t see why you would leave your current job.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:20 pm to SidewalkTiger
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opportunity to become the operations manager for a small business (8 full time employees, some contract workers)
Another angle here, you would be managing employees at a company that doesnt have benefits for it's operations manager. Think of the quality level of employees you would be managing.
Ive been there done that. Drove a bus to pickup my employees from jail for work-release. I spent more time policing smoke break durations than actual work.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:20 pm to SidewalkTiger
Sounds like you’re really enjoying life at a job you enjoy.
Doesn’t get any better than that.
Grass has not always been greener in my experiences.
Doesn’t get any better than that.
Grass has not always been greener in my experiences.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:30 pm to SidewalkTiger
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no benefits
Keep repeating to yourself.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:33 pm to SidewalkTiger
If it’s a start-up, push for equity in the biz.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:41 pm to SidewalkTiger
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The cons are no benefits, newish company, a lot of uncertainty. Pros are a ton of opportunity for future growth, the chance to have a lot of effect on the company, and it's a majority work from home position. Starting pay would be basically the same. I enjoy what I do now and like the people I work with but the challenge of helping build a business sounds very intriguing to me. I like the owner well and we seem to have similar views and thought processes about the future direction of the company.
I was in a steady enjoyable job with about 2k employees when an opportunity with a very small company.
Tiny raise at the time but is great now.
Money aside, working for a small company and being an integral part of all the business is so much more rewarding than being a replaceable cog in the machine.
There’s stress to building a small business especially when times are lean but being a part of a team that can be agile and doesn’t have a bloated bureaucracy has been incredibly rewarding.
If I died at my last job, they’d pass a card around to sign and that would be the end of it. The job would be posted before I was in the ground. If I died at this company I know my boss would take care of my family.
It worked out for me but everybody and every job is different.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 8:58 pm to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 1/14/22 at 9:04 pm to SidewalkTiger
Don’t do it.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 9:06 pm to SidewalkTiger
Never had that sort of opportunity, but go listen to The Cape by Guy Clark, and think about whether you believe you can fly.
It's ultimately up to you.
Best of luck!
It's ultimately up to you.
Best of luck!
Posted on 1/14/22 at 9:14 pm to SidewalkTiger
If you aren’t an owner why would you give a shite about “building a business?”
Posted on 1/14/22 at 9:21 pm to SidewalkTiger
Will you have the kind of medical insurance that can cover a problem pregnancy and months of hospitalization for a premature birth?
Or for your or your wife's cancer?
Hopefully you won't need it, but hospitals are in it to make money and you are their target demographic.
Or for your or your wife's cancer?
Hopefully you won't need it, but hospitals are in it to make money and you are their target demographic.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 9:32 pm to SidewalkTiger
Right now is the time to try a new career path….. Give it 6-12 months and in this labor market, you can probably go back to your old corporate gig with no problem.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 9:44 pm to SidewalkTiger
Either your wife needs to get a job with benefits, or you stay at your sales job. To me, right now, you cannot lose your family’s benefits. That is not acceptable.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 9:59 pm to SidewalkTiger
No kids & she doesn’t work? Awe Hell no don’t do it plus insurance will run you & ton
Posted on 1/14/22 at 10:28 pm to SidewalkTiger
Not trying to be rude here at all, but your wife needs to get to work even if everything she makes goes into savings or investing. Once the kids come along, if y'all choose that route, you will need the spare money.
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