.. and tell me wether I need a kick up the arse.
A job has come up within the company I work for and I’m dithering about wether to go for it or not.
If I go for it I’ll almost definitely get it and there’s a lot of good reasons to go for it so I feel like it should be a no brainer but I keep getting caught up on the downsides to it.
The pros are:
- Will get to spend more time with kids as more predictable working hours and no more working away from home for most of the week.
- Should be easier and less stressful. The team I’m on at the moment is ridiculously overstretched.
- I already know and get on well with the main people I’ll be working with.
However:
- It’s a lower pay grade than my current role
- I’ll be moving out of a very small, close knit team I’ve been part of for my entire working life
The pay isn’t a massive issue as it’s still going to be an ok amount and dh is a high earner so we’ll still be pretty comfortable.
It also means moving to a quite remote location which has it’s positive and negative points as well - it’s a lovely community and it could be a really idyllic place for the kids to grow up but the winters are awful, we’ll be moving even further away from what family we have in this country and it’s a 3 hour journey, mostly by ferry, to the nearest town.
We’d also love to have more kids and the extra stability mean’s this might actually be doable which would be amazing.
I’ve been going round in circles thinking about it and I can’t decide whether it’s worth it.
Would you go for it?