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+1 to job, better job yields better girlfriend in the end
Job offer of my dreams, or is it?
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[TW]Fox;18126975 said:
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Take the job offer and move the relationship to a long distance one.
How often do you see your girlfriend during the week if you're working anyway ? maybe one or two nights a week ? Just spend every weekend with her instead.
Alternate, she comes to you one weekend, another you go to her.
Even if the job doesnt provide long term prospects, it gets you some key things.
1) its going to teach you some skills you can take with you like welding
2) its going to be experience you can put on your CV. This means if they do fold geting another similar job is going to be a lot easier
3) if they do fold, you've got the perfect excuse for why you left you previous job. People will take pity on you and you get the sympathy vote.
Its always a pain trying to think of a reason to tell your interviewer why you want to leave your current job as "because my boss is an ****hole and i can't stand him" won't get you very far, so you have to make some lovey dovey crap up about wanting a better future etc..
But if the company you're working for goes under, you have none of that.
Go for it.
If call centre work bores you to tears and nuts, bolts and welding things together are things that inspire you.
WTF ARE YOU WAITING FOR.
you just said the girlfriend wants to change direction also.
Up sticks, the pair of you and get down there and sort your new life out.
WTF ARE YOU WAITING FOR.
you just said the girlfriend wants to change direction also.
Up sticks, the pair of you and get down there and sort your new life out.
i just been offered a job as a welder/mechanic.
Omg man, that will never happen again!!!!111
You guys are talking like this guy has just been offered to be a lawyer or a nasa scientist.
Anyway, in my opinion, if it's what you love, then you should go for it. I have been living with my gf for the past 2.5 years but prior to that we lived quite far away from each other and we surivived fine, surely you can see your gf on weekends, talk on facebook, talk on the phone or perhaps if she has nothing there and things kick off with your new job she can come and move with you. Or you can just dump her if it's nothing serious but I would give her a chance if I loved her.
Omg man, that will never happen again!!!!111
You guys are talking like this guy has just been offered to be a lawyer or a nasa scientist.
Anyway, in my opinion, if it's what you love, then you should go for it. I have been living with my gf for the past 2.5 years but prior to that we lived quite far away from each other and we surivived fine, surely you can see your gf on weekends, talk on facebook, talk on the phone or perhaps if she has nothing there and things kick off with your new job she can come and move with you. Or you can just dump her if it's nothing serious but I would give her a chance if I loved her.
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ive reached a point now in my life where money isnt the most important thing, ive chased the fast paced decent money sales jobs, thinking money would make me happy and being honest it didnt, it just made me into a idiot, theres plenty of sales jobs around here with commision on top, infact im doing one now!
What sort of money do you think im worth then?
Tried looking around and found nothing, there a few small tuning companys around here, ive asked all them and either got told im to old to be an apprentice or i didnt have enough experience working in a garage to get an interview.
Suppose i could do the extra stuff to help out, for example im designing and building a full diffuser setup for someones racecar for another company should be going down there in a couple of weeks to build it for him, that will be a bit of money, then if that goes well ive got another one to do.
maybe it sounds like im defending the job slightly, but there will be other things, like going to the race tracks at weekends supporting the racecars etc
also ill be racing aswell, got 7 rounds of time attack to do this year, with that help it should offset the cost id spend on it working in stoke anyway.
When i get back next week ill talk to my gf about it, but maybe i should say, im gonna try it for a while and to bare with me, she can never move down here but when i start earning enough i can come back at weekends
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After reading over everything again, If I was in your position I would go for it tbh!
As you say, when will you get an opportunity like this again?
At the end of the day, everything goes **** up, you could always just move back in with parents until you get yourself back on your feet?
As you say, when will you get an opportunity like this again?
At the end of the day, everything goes **** up, you could always just move back in with parents until you get yourself back on your feet?
I'm almost certain that this job is advertised/mentioned over on the Pistonheads forum. The guy offering it seemed to be pretty much set on wanting a 16-18 year old for funding reasons - Does he still intend of putting you on a course to get some qualifications to your name?
It really is the type of opportunity I'd have given various body parts up for at 16/17/18, but at 26 you've really got to be thinking long and hard about it. To be honest even I'd be weary about it if the offer came up, and I'm not even 20 yet...
It's not even necessarily the money issue. You're going to work hard, end up doing all of the dog's body work and get generally speaking zero appreciation for it.And then there is the vital thing that even I underestimated when going into the trade - When you do something you are passionate about day in, day out it begins to lose it's magic after a while. It is sad but it is true.
Maybe it is different in smaller places, but out of 20 odd guys on the shop floor at my place I'd genuinely struggle to find 3/4 of us who are still genuinely passionate about cars. To everyone else it is nothing more than a job. I think that says a lot.
It really is the type of opportunity I'd have given various body parts up for at 16/17/18, but at 26 you've really got to be thinking long and hard about it. To be honest even I'd be weary about it if the offer came up, and I'm not even 20 yet...
It's not even necessarily the money issue. You're going to work hard, end up doing all of the dog's body work and get generally speaking zero appreciation for it.And then there is the vital thing that even I underestimated when going into the trade - When you do something you are passionate about day in, day out it begins to lose it's magic after a while. It is sad but it is true.
Maybe it is different in smaller places, but out of 20 odd guys on the shop floor at my place I'd genuinely struggle to find 3/4 of us who are still genuinely passionate about cars. To everyone else it is nothing more than a job. I think that says a lot.
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Do it
Wholeheartedly agree with that, 6 years in and I'm sick of it.
I left my last "job of passion" after 7 years due to being fed up with it as well.. Hmm I think it's what they call the 7 year itch or something
I would reiterate the comment about courses too, if he is willing to put you through a few then great, use him for this as he will definitely be using you as cheap labour without a doubt. If all he wants to do is have you doing all the crap work for no money without returning you any favours then it would be a case of jog on!
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as you say he thinks the guy he has now is useless
so he offers you the job, but he doesnt want to pay anymore than he is paying now
i think your going to have a hard time getting anymore money out of him later
he will just look for someone to replace you and pay the same
so he offers you the job, but he doesnt want to pay anymore than he is paying now
i think your going to have a hard time getting anymore money out of him later
he will just look for someone to replace you and pay the same
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I think there is two different ways to view apprentices. A young person who you intend to train up to be a valuable and productive member of your staff, or cheap labour.
I increasingly feel like many employers think of apprentices as the later and I think it is a real shame. A good apprentice is a very keen and passionate young person, but if you get such an employer the general lack of appreciation/'respect' eventually gets on ones **** after a while and drains that passion. Especially when said apprentice understands and recognises that he'd genuinely make more money stacking selves at Tesco. Arguably have better career prospects too...
It's not about money making you happy it's about not hating the job that you're doing because it's only paying you enough to eat bread and water.
Anyone is worth more than minimum wage, I would be insulted to be offered that for a skilled technical job and it shows quite frankly what a dodgy place it likely is, that along with the unprofessionalism of dissing staff members.
Sorry mate, but...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*breathe*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
He's going in as an apprentice. Hilariously low pay is an integral part of the job description. I am not joking here, if you get paid national minimum wage you are considered well paid. I know as I'm one of the lucky few who makes national minimum wage and when comparing take home pay with other apprentices in the trade the response I get, without question or exception, is "You get paid HOW MUCH?"
.I spoke with a bloke who genuinely claims to earn £2.50 an hour. £2.50. And this isn't a backstreet garage either, this is a franchised service centre.
Some people might question how this is possible, but as far as I'm aware there isn't an underlying minimum wage for apprentices? There are guidelines, but nothing set in stone.
hes not really an apprentice though is he... not if he knows enough to make his own 200mph car and can already do all the work that he will be doing
/trolling
He's going in as an apprentice. Hilariously low pay is an integral part of the job description. I am not joking here, if you get paid national minimum wage you are considered well paid. I know as I'm one of the lucky few who makes national minimum wage and when comparing take home pay with other apprentices in the trade the response I get, without question or exception, is "You get paid HOW MUCH?"
I spoke with a bloke who genuinely claims to earn £2.50 an hour. £2.50. And this isn't a backstreet garage either, this is a franchised service centre.
Some people might question how this is possible, but as far as I'm aware there isn't an underlying minimum wage for apprentices? There are guidelines, but nothing set in stone.
If you hadn't noticed he's not a teenager with no experience, he has a lot of experience and the manager is clearly just looking for slave labour.
My folks run their own business, just a small office, and as part as some government youth employment/training thing they are allowed to hire someone on the scheme and pay them as little as £90 odd a week if they wanted.
Seems crazy, think there's some element of learning involved though, in their case I think it was some sort of release to college now and again.