re: Using a job offer to get a raise at your current job: Advice?

If you really don't want to leave, forget about that other job. Just ask for a raise. Your current employer certainly can't begrudge you for trying.

Doesn't sound like the difference in money is significant enough to make up for leaving a job that you already like. It's hard enough finding a job that you like going to every morning. Can't measure job satisfaction in dollars and cents.

Ask yourself what is that extra money going to get you that you don't already have.