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Pittapatta · 02/01/2022 16:57

I work in a job part-time. I've trained hard to do the job and want to continue to work in this profession but would ideally change sectors.

I started looking for a new job in the same profession but different sector. This might have meant sticking with my part time job and adding a day on. But long term I was planning to leave completely. However I have just been offered a promotion at work to make me a deputy manager and supervise staff. I hadn't planned to go into management but it's making me think. Where I work now is very child friendly and I have young children (one is pre-school).

So should I:

A: Stay in my current part time role but keep looking out to see if a great opportunity comes up elsewhere to change sectors. With the idea to see if I enjoy working in a different, more challenging sector and develop my skills clinically.
Or
B: Take promotion, work another day a week and move into a deputy manager position. This gives me experience of managing but I would probably feel obliged to stay in this sector for a few years if I just got a promotion.

I'm being vague here but it's a case of be a deputy-manager doing the profession I love but in a sector I don't see myself in long term or find something new that moves into different clinical work but who knows if that will work out!

And I have young childre to add into the mix...

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M4857493 · 02/01/2022 19:36

I would go for a bit of both! Take the promotion, see how you go, you'll get more skills and experience and that will broaden your horizons for other opportunities. There is no one reason you'd "need" to stay there a few years, go for it and keep looking.

DisforDarkChocolate · 02/01/2022 19:38

B, but you are under no obligation to stay any longer than you want or need to.

Pittapatta · 03/01/2022 11:28

I really like the manager and respect them and I would need to be trained to do the job. So I wouldn't feel comfortable moving on too quickly.

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Pittapatta · 03/01/2022 11:28

I'm such an indecisive person!

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M4857493 · 03/01/2022 11:42

OP no man would think like that and you don't need to think that far ahead! You're overthinking, take the role if you want it, you're not selling your soul, you don't owe anybody anything, they're your boss not your friend, they can replace you!

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