So I'm currently looking for a new role and have been for around 6 months.
I have recently had 2 interviews and both seemed to go well. I am now awaiting feedback and have therefore been pondering the various possible outcomes.
I know that it's not really relevant unless someone offers me a role, but I can't stop thinking about which job makes more sense.
I currently work in a very secure job. Business is growing and has not been impacted at all by the pandemic. But I hate what I do, I need to get out for my mental health and to feel worth something again.
One of the jobs I've interviewed for is 40 mins away but offers hybrid working. I want to be closer to home not further away and although I'd rather be in an office a few days a week (I don't want to work in my kitchen all the time) if I was 40+ mins away id probably work from home as much as I could.
It's a completely new sector which I am very unfamiliar with as it is quite specialist. I'm not sure how my skills transfer but I'm bright so I'm sure I'd pick it up in the end with help. However it's difficult to know exactly what I'd be doing as everything is unfamiliar. Business seems to be growing and salary is 20% more than what I currently earn. I felt very on the fence in the first interview though and didn't come away desperately wanting the role. 2nd interview felt better and made me more comfortable, but again I wasn't thinking "I really really want this job". I felt nervous that I'd take it and it would be the wrong move, but at least I'd be paid more.
The second interview felt amazing. I had a great gut feeling. Its about 5 mins from home so works with being a mum to 2 little ones, and although it's a different sector, it's not specialist so skills and experience easily transfer so in understand more of what the role is. There seemed to be scope to move teams to grow and learn.
The issue would be that it's within the travel industry so I worry it would be a huge risk by putting myself into a dangerous position in an industry that I know will pick up eventually, but I don't know when.