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New job or stay?

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Xuli · 30/06/2021 10:34

I'm down to the final interview but I genuinely don't know if I want a new job or not Confused

Current job - I've got a good salary, can work mostly from home, I have a good amount of flexibility on my hours (DH is in the emergency services, work have always been really supportive of the issues this can cause me i.e. childcare), like my team, know what I'm doing inside out

New job - hardly any change in salary, probably would need to be in the office a bit more, wouldn't know how supportive they'd be about DH's work/childcare, new people and all that jazz

The problem is, I'm bored at work. I know I'm coasting - I've tried to push to do something different at work for several years now, the firm makes the right noises but nothing ever comes of it. On bad days I feel stiffled and unappreciated and frustrated.

New role is right up my alley, moving more into the kind of role I want to make at my current firm. It's not a role that will come up often, and from what they've said I can make it my own.

Yet there's a big part of me that says the work/life balance is more important, I have that in my current role, my kids are still young, maybe I need to be more forceful about pushing to do new things. I've got the post-lockdown flats like many people, am I really feeling in a position in life to join a new firm and do all the pushing and putting myself out there to forge a new role?

I can't decide, I keep flipping between the two. Maybe I'll regret it if I don't take on a new challenge? But maybe it'll make life harder and I'll struggle without the work life balance.

OP posts:
BookWorm45 · 30/06/2021 10:52

If you're bored and coasting, then it's time to make the change

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