I'm not sure anyone can help me but I need someone to say the one thing that will decide it for me.
Background: a few years back I moved for a big job opportunity - I worked for a well known company and was given the role but without the title (this was something they reassured me I would work up to asap) - it proved very hard to do the job effectively without the proper mandate and it became apparent my manager was telling another colleague in my team that he thought maybe she would be better for the job so started playing us off against each other. I persevered for 2 years and had gotten on a pretty level playing field (good feedback from senior stakeholders, the team had stopped ignoring me and keeping me out of the loop, the other colleague proved to be inexperienced and deferred to me.) Then I raised an issue with a process which caused some issues for my Manager (issues unrelated to what I had looked into) and he had me made redundant. The redundancy was challenged (not by me but internally) and I was offered another role but I had had enough of the politics by then and asked for the redundancy to continue. I got another job but with a hefty pay cut and in a different part of my industry - vendor role rather than the client role I had left. I like it but maybe its not as challenging and generally it is considered better to be client rather than vendor.
I have now received a job offer for the same job I was made redundant from (by a peer of the company I used to work for) but this time with the full title, clear reporting lines to me etc - but the salary is way lower then at my first company (talking a difference of nearly 2k a month) - I think if they were offering the same as my last company doing the same job I would take it and feel that I have gotten back to where I was but hopefully in a better environment but I feel a bit pissed off that they want me to do the same job in the same field in the same industry for quite a bit less - but these opportunities don't come up so often....should I take it with the view that this gives me the better opportunity to advance my career then my present vendor job does though the vendor job is much easier for me and the pays is similar?
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SpanishLady · 27/09/2016 04:39
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