Multiple good job offers, opinions?

George Hincapie said:
I wouldn't. Money is the reason I work, I don't have to be happy at work just well rewarded. I am supremely happy at home and that's enough for me.
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You must be a ball at work, and a good worker. Why would you not have a happy work life if it's an option, in addition to your happy home life?
 
Cheers for the advice guys, I appreciate all the feedback. Ultimately after tax the difference in wage is £140 per month. ( 3k difference in actual wage ). But I am currently comfortable and certainly not in need of extra money, but ultimately if my skills and job are worth an amount why should I be going for less...

Here I am still mulling over my choice, last time I had to make this choice of two bad positions as someone stated here. Now at least I have 2 good potential roles. I did state an amount and was offered 5k less than this, I presume there has been a breakdown in communication between the internal recruiter and the chap who made the offer.

What sounds more interesting, Monitoring Engineer or DevOps Engineer?
 
Choose the job with the most responsibility, flexibility and learning opportunities.

What matters, is the job you actually do and how much you learn in the process of doing it. Transferable skills beat any job title; titles for the most part, are usually irrelevant.

Understand what the real "role" involves and go from there...
 
I have never worked in the media industry and I am currently looking for a job in that industry as well other industry. I once went for an interview at a major editing house and was down to me and another guy and he got the job because at that point i didn't know storage. The job looked interesting, it was an internal IT role but to have exposure to all the av hardware. I would also work for a broadcasting company, i bet that would be interesting. I would stay away from retail and finance if possible. What I would like is a job in the mining industry or architect/engineer, doing internal IT. I bet that would be different.

I think smaller companies is far better though. Although big companies do have their own merits.
 
Abraham said:
You must be a ball at work, and a good worker. Why would you not have a happy work life if it's an option, in addition to your happy home life?
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You're missing the point. The question was be happy at work with half salary or unhappy on full salary. Work is just a means to an end, so it's of little consequence whether you are happy at work or not as long as the financial reward secures your personal life and you're happy in that.

I actually am happy at work, but there have been times when I haven't been. My family has always been there though and that's the motivation.
 
I went back to the BBC they absolutely cannot increase offer. They agree to review things in 6 months and it is due to budget reductions in the department why they reduced the amount for this role.
 
rIcK said:
When I say small, it is around 3 years old with 70 employees so not small small.

My gut is saying go with the smaller company, but I honestly never expected to be offered position at the BBC it caught me by surprise. Had you asked me around a year ago this wouldn't even have involved any thought ( I would have chosen the BBC ).
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do they have interesting projects for you to work on

will they give you some equity stake or stock options etc. ?
 
Work life balance will probably be better in the smaller company. You will have more chance of having an impact and being noticed. From my friends who have worked and do work in the BBC unless you're well established it's very corporate very stuffy and frustrating and bureaucratic.

I'd rather be part of a smaller company and enjoy life more.
 
George Hincapie said:
it's of little consequence whether you are happy at work or not
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Yea, no consequence at all. Because spending 8 hours a day every weekday for decades being totally miserable has no detrimental effect on your well-being at all as long as you've loads of money to spend when you go home

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Obviously everyone's tolerance for frustrating and annoyance at work increases in line with salary but come on, to say that happiness at work is of 'little' consequence is one of the most bizarre things I've read on here for a long time.

I suspect you wouldn't have said it if you were not, as you claim to be, happy at work. Being unhappy at work causes health and wellbeing issues that have the potential to render the salary irrelevant.
 
Freefaller said:
Work life balance will probably be better in the smaller company. You will have more chance of having an impact and being noticed. From my friends who have worked and do work in the BBC unless you're well established it's very corporate very stuffy and frustrating and bureaucratic.

I'd rather be part of a smaller company and enjoy life more.
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Exactly this.

I'm sure you'll be looked after much better at a smaller company and they'll be able to be flexible with you when required. You'll also be able to be more autonomous and grow your skill set in a much wider way rather than being pigeon holed into one role with the BBC.
 
Cheers for the opinions guys, think the smaller company makes the most sense here. Since I have gained experience I have never had any issues with getting interviews or even job offers so the fact I could put BBC on my CV ultimately wouldn't change things other than an initial "Oh thats cool" with some random HR member I believe.
 
[TW]Fox;28322917 said:
Yea, no consequence at all. Because spending 8 hours a day every weekday for decades being totally miserable has no detrimental effect on your well-being at all as long as you've loads of money to spend when you go home

:confused:

Obviously everyone's tolerance for frustrating and annoyance at work increases in line with salary but come on, to say that happiness at work is of 'little' consequence is one of the most bizarre things I've read on here for a long time.

I suspect you wouldn't have said it if you were not, as you claim to be, happy at work. Being unhappy at work causes health and wellbeing issues that have the potential to render the salary irrelevant.
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Shock as two different people on the Internet hold different opinions.
 
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How often could you get an interview for the BBC though?

Yes the salary is worse, but smaller businesses are a dime a dozen. You could always walk from the BBC if you didn't like it. You said yourself interviews are not uncommon, so I say why not give them a whirl!
 
You haven't mentioned the total package, how does the BBC pension offer compare? Are there any private helathcare or sharesave options for the smaller company? The tax breaks are good on pensions and worth considering.
 
The BBC pension is actually really generous. They pay at 1% above my own contribution till 7% then at 8% they pay in 10%.
 
Housey said:
You can't possibly know that. If the small company takes off he could be retired in 10 years. Depends on far too many factors to make such a judgement. Go with your gut feel.
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Spoken like a true small company man.

Obviously I don't 'know that' (that's a truism), but it's better to be a small fish in a big pond than the other way round.
 
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