Can’t decide on new job or not?

[thebluehen]

Been offered a new job. I currently work 4 jobs. My “main” job is as a finance manager 2.5 days per week and is fully remote and quite well paid.

The other jobs are local but not well paid. Although I value the remote job, I live alone and miss human interaction sometimes although I have a good social life.

new job is 3.5 days a week, better pay and I can keep 1 day working locally in one of the other jobs.

it will simplify my life.

However, it involves one day a week in the office which is 90 minutes commute away. I have a dog that will need someone to come in and let him out at least once, possibly twice. He’s very elderly and can’t go to doggy daycare, he wouldn’t cope.

New job says office work is one day a week at the moment but “this might change”.

Two office days is going to be expensive and make me financially worse off than I am now with my current set up.

I do really value the flexibility I have now and I am scared of giving that up as not sure I’d find it again! New job is a step up career wise though.

Thoughts please.

It sounds like you need to go back to the job offer and say I can only do one day per week in the office and would need that in my contract. I may be able to increase that in a few years time but not before then.

Even if one day per week was contractual they could still change it if they wanted.

Personally I don't think I'd risk it for a three hour journey. It's too far. I'm not sure I'd be happy with that even one day per week.

People do that commute from here all the time BUT I don’t want it everyday or more than once a week. You are right about the contractual change and there’s nothing to say my current remote job wouldn’t change in the future too and that office is 2.5hrs commute away. It will make it a 12.5hr day which is long but just sat on a train with only one change.

The rest of the week is flexible.

I think I’m going to have to chance it, they won’t change the contract wording.