Need some career advice

celliott

celliott

celliott

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Hi all

Looking for a bit of job advice.

I’m 24 and been with the same company since I left college at 18, have slowly worked my way up and I’m now a technical product manager with a pretty nice wedge for my age.

On the flip side, I’m bored and get little recognition for the effort I put in as it's a sales based company. The job is also changing over time in that I’m spending more time repairing their products and training people than doing IT. I’ve been doing some IT consultancy self-employed for as long as I’ve been there - My employer knows this, and gave me a raise last year as I was ready to walk.

Now I’m wondering what to do again. They say you work to live (Not live to work) and I’m pretty comfy as things are, but at the same time I can’t help but feel I could do so much more elsewhere. Especially as several of my mates have been through Uni in the meantime and doing far more interesting things!

So TLDR version:

Current Job = Decent pay, secure job, good people, 2 miles from home, boring but easy

New Job = Equal or less pay, further travel, have to start from bottom, better long-term prospects

What would you do? Stay, or move on

Thanks!
 
What do you actually do? What do you want to do? You can ask for advice, by all means, but you need to give a little more information to start us off, you've been incredibly vague.

You're 24 - is staying in your current job for another 40 years at "decent" pay an option? If not, then you're going to move on at some point, and you're bored now... so why wouldn't you move now? But you don't sound at all keen about the "new job" idea, where you seem to think you'll start "from the bottom" - if you have experience, why does moving jobs mean starting from the bottom? Are you thinking of a major career switch? And what about your self employed work - is that feasible full time / long term?

You sound like you're bored of your current job and in need of a new challenge; in your shoes I'd be moving on. But without knowing what you do, what your options are, what your goals are, etc...
 
I'd stay put as despite saying you get 'little recognition' you are getting the most important recognition which is cash in the sky rocket. I'd take that over a pat on the back yet feel like I'm being mugged off on salary (which is the position I was in until very recently).
 
Stay where you are.

Sounds like a nice job, good money, nice people, close to home and easy.

Ask your boss to go on a decent course if your bored, something that will add benefit to your CV and him as a employer (quality stuff goes down well) explain how you feel. They may thing to give you a try at something else or more responsibility.

Trust me in this the grass may look greener on the other side, but cats still **** on it.
 
No one bettered themselves by sitting on their arse all day, bored and running at 50% capacity. Stay at your current job until you get one which challenges you, pays more, and improves your skills and knowledge. Rinse, repeat.
 
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