Yay new job :)

Hades

Hades

Hades

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Sitting here at home quietly celebrating a new job with a bottle of wine or three :)

I'm not going to say who it's for (no reason to hide it but I just feel I shouldn't shout it out). It's IT in the banking sector which should narrow it down a bit :)

A few years ago I took a chance and left a company I'd been working with for over 20 years. It was a bit of a risk and after 20 years a very scary decision. But I just felt I'd had as much experience there as I could get from that company, it was a risk worth taking, and a good opportunity had opened up at a competitor. I went for it with a little nervousness.

Then the world economy collapsed and I questioned whether I had taken the right decision in leaving somewhere very safe for somewhere that was now very risky... but I survived in the new company while some around me didn't.

Recently I've been looking around again and this week I was offered, and accepted, a fantastic opportunity, and a very nice wage increase again with another competitor. While I'm under no illusion that I'm going to have to work hard for the money (I like to think I've always worked hard anyway), it just shows that taking that risk a few years ago has finally paid off. I don't plan to move again anytime soon but we will see how it goes.

Good luck to anyone else facing a similar decision. Maybe I was lucky but it seems that fortune does indeed favour the brave :)
 
Well done!

Which bank Hades?

I only ask as I have some friends in that market. If you don't want to say then fair enough, I understand. :)
 
Morba said:
Why so secretive?
Lloyds / rbs?
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No real reason. Just don't feel it's appropriate to shout it out. Some companies can be funny about any information disclosed :)

Lloyds was the company I worked at for 20 years and was a very good employer. I'd recommend them. Never worked at RBS.
 
Big congrats dude. I would love to change jobs but 1) just had a kid and 2) no alternative jobs around where i live ( in IT). Jobs are further out and wife doesnt want to move.
 
allday247 said:
Big congrats dude. I would love to change jobs but 1) just had a kid and 2) no alternative jobs around where i live ( in IT). Jobs are further out and wife doesnt want to move.
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I had a 4 year old and a 1 year old when I left the job I'd had for 20 years. I suppose part of the reason for taking that risk was because I had more responsibility and wanted or needed to improve my position.

It really depends what role you do and which area you live in but I've found the best way is getting to know a good agent and discussing what you really want. There are many agents and most of them are blatently looking for you to move so they can make a commission. But there are some good ones out there too. Good luck with any future decisions.
 
PapaLazaru said:
Got message. Fair play, not anyone I know working there. Did work for the first one a while back, but not in IT.

Good organisation by all accounts. :)
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Yes I'd work for them again and have a high opinion of them. Always leave a place on good terms as the industry is smaller than you think. I still meet my ex-manager for a beer once a month :)
 
Morba said:
You will never tell anyone publically where you work? Lol.
Odd :p
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I've just resigned from my current employer and while I have an offer letter, I have not yet started with my new employer. I'm kind of in limbo and see no reason to jeapodise anything. I'm not under any tin-foil-hat illusion that this post would either be noticed by them or that they would care anyway. But equally there is no reason for me to mention it.

I will not be mentioning the name in a public forum. Feel free to question that and also read something odd into it by all means. But I'm not going to.

Neverheless... weyhey \o/




In fact I'd go as far as to say...
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Congratulations! I'm guessing you work in the city, put in a word for me if they offer grad schemes :p Nahhh seriously best of luck in your new job buddy.
 
Hades said:
I've just resigned from my current employer and while I have an offer letter, I have not yet started with my new employer. I'm kind of in limbo and see no reason to jeapodise anything. I'm not under any tin-foil-hat illusion that this post would either be noticed by them or that they would care anyway. But equally there is no reason for me to mention it.

I will not be mentioning the name in a public forum. Feel free to question that and also read something odd into it by all means. But I'm not going to.

Neverheless... weyhey \o/




In fact I'd go as far as to say...
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Yeah that makes sense really, thinking about it :)
 
Congratulations!

IT + Banking is a big old brush, Merchant? Investment? Retail? Private Equity? HNW? Hardware? Software? Networks? Management?

:)
 
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