Hello all and one, quick blurb so you dont get bored with the start of this.
Graduated in july 09 2.2 Beng Hons Product Design and manufacture (loughborough). pretty much been bumming it at home since then,with temp work in between. Applied for a few grad schemes > rejected. Recently applied for a product administrator role at a small Custom Door manufacturer in Hitchin Herts(~20 miles above london). Had an interview today went really well got offered a job on the spot, heres the snag tho, still live at home with my parents in East Sussex which is 90 miles away.
I said to them deciding factor is whether or not i can find somewhere to live and easily relocate on the salary given £17000. Got till about wed/thurs to give them a decision, and then some more time after that if i say yes to sort out a place to live. The reason im interested in this job is that they are a very niche company who have expanded last year to new premises, and are again in 2011 to new bigger premises, so quite a successful small company. When i was speaking to the interviewers(2), one of them had tripled his pay after 3 / half years working there, and the other one had doubled his pay after 1 year (30k).
The thing is im struggling to make my expenses work (with a 1 bed flat) without literally having 20 quid left over each week with what to save making things very tight if car breaks down etc..
Expenses/month as follows ( some of these are speculative ie gas/electricity
Car Insurance £115
Mobile Phone £35
Credit Card £ 11
Rent (lowest) £450
Council Tax £~100
Leccy £30
Gas £30
Bt L.L £11
Internetz £20
tv licence £12
food £160
Total £974 Wage = £1122
Left over £37/week for anything like petrol/beer/chewing gum crap like that
Could scrap car insurance if i found somewhere closes enough to walk/cycle.
Leccy and gas as estimates, if not paying gas then could substitute that for water? Council Tax is an unknown at the moment, need to phone up and see how much circa £450 month C.T would be in Hitchin. Problem is aswell that most of the cheap places are unfurnished and i really have no money to get me started and don't know what the fudge to do.
I have a really good feeling about this job, the workforce is under 30 apart from the director, the company is expanding its business all the time getting new contracts = more money and the pay will get better if i work hard once the pay review comes in 6 months time.
What would you guys/girls do in a similar position , im sure many of your have had much experience whilst being in a similar position at some point in your life. This is the first job I have applied for that i haven't been rejected even before the interview stage!
Graduated in july 09 2.2 Beng Hons Product Design and manufacture (loughborough). pretty much been bumming it at home since then,with temp work in between. Applied for a few grad schemes > rejected. Recently applied for a product administrator role at a small Custom Door manufacturer in Hitchin Herts(~20 miles above london). Had an interview today went really well got offered a job on the spot, heres the snag tho, still live at home with my parents in East Sussex which is 90 miles away.
I said to them deciding factor is whether or not i can find somewhere to live and easily relocate on the salary given £17000. Got till about wed/thurs to give them a decision, and then some more time after that if i say yes to sort out a place to live. The reason im interested in this job is that they are a very niche company who have expanded last year to new premises, and are again in 2011 to new bigger premises, so quite a successful small company. When i was speaking to the interviewers(2), one of them had tripled his pay after 3 / half years working there, and the other one had doubled his pay after 1 year (30k).
The thing is im struggling to make my expenses work (with a 1 bed flat) without literally having 20 quid left over each week with what to save making things very tight if car breaks down etc..
Expenses/month as follows ( some of these are speculative ie gas/electricity
Car Insurance £115
Mobile Phone £35
Credit Card £ 11
Rent (lowest) £450
Council Tax £~100
Leccy £30
Gas £30
Bt L.L £11
Internetz £20
tv licence £12
food £160
Total £974 Wage = £1122
Left over £37/week for anything like petrol/beer/chewing gum crap like that
Could scrap car insurance if i found somewhere closes enough to walk/cycle.
Leccy and gas as estimates, if not paying gas then could substitute that for water? Council Tax is an unknown at the moment, need to phone up and see how much circa £450 month C.T would be in Hitchin. Problem is aswell that most of the cheap places are unfurnished and i really have no money to get me started and don't know what the fudge to do.
I have a really good feeling about this job, the workforce is under 30 apart from the director, the company is expanding its business all the time getting new contracts = more money and the pay will get better if i work hard once the pay review comes in 6 months time.
What would you guys/girls do in a similar position , im sure many of your have had much experience whilst being in a similar position at some point in your life. This is the first job I have applied for that i haven't been rejected even before the interview stage!
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