I started my current job nearly a year ago. I like it, I like the people and I am doing well but I don't have a passion for the subject. I work in the not for profit sector. I have a 2 year contract, so a year to run, but I think that it is more likely than not that it will become permanent. It has been an excellent career move. I have manager status but am not part of the management team although I would like to be. I work 16 hours a week and would like to increase it but there is not currently an option to do so.
I have just seen another job advertised which sounds interesting. It would be part of the management team, it is 20 hours a week and I would bring home more than £500 a month net more than I do now for 4 hours extra per week. Looking at the job spec, I fit all the criteria. However, it is a 1 year fixed term contract. It doesn't say that it is a maternity cover and I don't know how the role is funded. If it is a maternity cover I wouldn't apply but I think that they would have to specify if it was.
I guess my reservation is whether, in this Market it is worth applying for a role on a fixed term contract when I have a job I like which may well be made permanent, although I don't think I would necessarily want to stay much longer but taking on a fixed term contract would mean potentially job hunting again in 6 months time.