Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

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I need to decide today between two jobs. Both have pluses and minus. Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Job 1 with an agency potential for permanent employment. Part time fixed hours, but they always want extra hours and often at 5 min notice. £10 per hour. No pay rise in future. 20 min not very nice drive. Equipment is broken or missing or dirty. Just a response cleaner for a charity dealing with the public. Incredibly noisy place to work. But very little to do/allowed to do by supervisor- and I am often helping elsewhere just to occupy myself. The charity isn’t happy with the standard provided by the company.
so far I have come home bored to tears and starting to feel very demoralised. Non cleaning staff are lovely though!

job 2. Same money but pay rise soon. Part time, but different hours depending on hotel bookings. Position of head housekeeper. (Very small hotel) Lovely 10 min drive. Not immediately working with the public. Can organise things with full support of owners. Equipment is regularly replaced and plentiful supplies, cleaning is considered a top priority. Will included cleaning up after parties etc. So will be nice to see that I have actually cleaned /turned rooms around and done something.

however. Dh has fixed Thursday and Fridays off. Plus he works nights. Job 1 gives me the option to refuse to work those days - but generates bad feeling and I could stick to Saturday-Tuesday. Job 2 I would have to be more flexible and inclined to work, if only for 4/5 hours. So job 1 gives us some ‘guaranteed’ time together. But I am used to working under my own initiative and to a very high standard which I have been pleased to maintain.

head is swirling trying to balance home life and work. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Thank you.

2 sounds far better to me...

@Elderflower14 Perhaos I should add that job 1 has a very high turnover of staff. Job2 is still a very new enterprise, so too early to judge! Argh.

If 1 has a high turnover that isn't good...

Job 2.

Job 1 sounds soul destroying.

Job 2 would be my preference but surely that salary can’t be right? Isn’t UK NMW £9.90/hr? Does that mean you’d be managing a team and only on 10p more an hour than them?

It sounds like neither of these is something you want to stay at long term (unless perhaps Job 2 turns up another internal opportunity) so I would go with 2 and let the "Head Housekeeper" title and staff management responsibilities give me current experience and credentials managing people, which will ultimately lead to more choices later on.

I'm confused about the impact of your husband's hours, though - does taking 2 mean that you have young children who would potentially be left alone, or you would need to find childcare last minute? If that's the case, I'd make sure you have a backup in place before taking the job. Or is it just that you and your husband no longer have "guaranteed" time together? That would be fine for the moment; you can all adjust later on when you see how the job goes for you.

@wackamole no children! So yes, it’s the time to actually see each other that is the minor issue. Have spent a lot of years recently not seeing each from one week to the next! Agreed it’s experience and a title which would lead to other things, if I wished - I may love the place and colleagues enough to not want more.
@Whadda yes currently only 10p more for the extra responsibility, but increase of several pounds per hour after a months probation.
@BobbyBobbyBobby job1 is soul destroying. - it annoys me how poor the equipment is - think pound shop level yet being used in a commercial setting, floor mops and brooms being stored (used) leaning on restaurant removable fridge doors - which are then used to cover food/drinks overnight without being disinfected. Cleaning cloths mixed together and far too few for effective infection control. No proper cleaning trolleys, so everything is stuffed in jeans pockets. Etc etc. So frustrating, yet no one’s cares.

think I may have talked myself into number 2.

Job 2 sounds like the obvious choice. It's a sad thing to say, but some couples hardly get to see each other because of working hours sometimes but hopefully this won't be a long-term situation. Because its a new venture and you're going to be leader, once more established, there might be a chance further down the line to pick your own hours/organise the rota.

@Eggygirl yes. We’ve done years of not really seeing each other, literally minutes of him hopping out of bed to go to work, as I hop into bed having come from work! Haven’t had a holiday together for three years. It was a nice idea to try and actually have a day or two together.
I hope job 2 will be flexible enough that maybe one thurs/Fri a month off can be arranged. I’ve no problem in working any other hours or every weekend.

You know it has to be 2. You hate everything about 1.

You shouldn’t be ‘head’ anything for £10 per hour.

but job one is full of negatives if you read your post back.

@Morechocmorechoc @PumpkinSpiceLatay Both true and good points. Substantial pay rise after a months probation if passed for job 2 - which is reasonable in my view. But tbh a lot of cleaning supervisor jobs locally, are pennies above whatever the rest of the team are being paid, and area supervisors make 50p per hour more than the supervisors. I totally agree they shouldn’t be, but that’s the way it is.

Job 2 it is, notice emailed to the agency. At least I can say I tried both!

Well you have your answer so I'll just say congratulations. It sounds like it has potential even if to jsut be a stepping stone to some better a bit later on.

A pay rise after a month’s probation sounds weird, and pointless.

Would you consider domestic cleaning, OP, either for an agency or on a self-employer basis? Money is much better and you can set your own hours a lot of the time.

If you’re reliable, trustworthy, and hardworking, you’ll get snapped up.

@whadda i haven’t considered domestic cleaning as it never had the same appeal as cleaning big buildings/spaces (weird I now realise). I really don’t want to be self employed.

@Hillrunning thank you.