I interviewed for a job yesterday, and I can't decide if I want to take it or not. Should get a phone call today offering or not.
Current situation is I work 2 jobs, both in the Charity sector.
Job 1- 30 hours a week. Band C. (£25k pro rata) I like the people, but I am a bit of an outsider. Most of the staff are in their 20s and I'm 55. I work in an admin/HR role, and I am spread very thin. I am the only one doing HR for 55 staff, which is a stretch on 30 hours a week as it is, but I also do room bookings, H&S, checking fire alarms, purchasing things for the office, managing the cleaners, meter readings across multiple sites, I answer the main phone line and admin the phone system, and general sorter outer of any problem that doesn't fit anywhere else. I've been here just over 2 years. 15 min drive from home.
Job 2 - 10 hours a week. General office admin (no HR) - room bookings, invoices, a little bit of meet and greet, answering the phone, organising building maintenance, managing volunteers, packing up online orders and back and forth to the post office, meeting minutes, so a bit of everything. Also lovely people, struggling in an old building and NO money. They can barely afford me at £13 per hour. I've been here three years, 5 min drive from my house (I could walk). They overstep the mark a bit eg they whatsapp me at all hours to sort things out, I have done a lot of extras for them. Working there is a bit like wading through treacle, they are very set in their ways, nothing ever gets done.
I interviewed yesterday for another third sector job, Band D. Pure HR, part of a HR team, so they do it properly, rather than just me firefighting like in job1. £28k - 35 hours a week. I think I will take home about the same as Job 1&2 combined. 45 mins drive away but can work from home 2 days per week. They have a smaller office closer to me (20 mins) but the role is based at the main office.
I just can't decide what to do if I am offered it? (Might not be and the decision is taken away)
Reasons to take it:
Feels like a proper career move.
There are niggles in current jobs that frustrate me.
I don't like doing H&S
Less hours overall per week for same(ish) money
Reasons not to take it:
Longer commute (but I don't mind driving)
Leaving a secure position for another 6 month probation scares me a bit.
Jump into the unknown, I have a nice comfortable routine with current jobs. I've been through a very messy divorce and was enjoying being settled.
Other info - I am 55 and live alone. I will have to work full time until I am 68 - expansive divorce and not much in the way of pension. 3 adult DDs - all living with partners away, I don't want to move house again to nearer potential new job. I moved in 2018, and then twice in 2023 due to exH being an arse and taking the family home in divorce.
If you got to the end of that, thanks! Tell me what to do, I feel like Julia in Motherland when Liz is repeating "Take it then", "Don't take it then", "Take it then" - "Hang on, which one are we on?"