Got interview offer. Dosh too low. What would you do?

[trentlad]

I'm not sure about that.

I've always worried that if I took on a crappy job with the intention to continue searching, then I'd never find the time. After a full days work the last thing I'd want to do is start job hunting instead of wind down. Especially if you have a long drive home or only get about 3 hours at home before you go to bed.

My previous job had me up at 5:45am and home by 7:00pm. I felt like I had no time at home on weekdays and I'd push all my jobs to the weekends, so the weekends were just hell. Not fun at all.

 

[PMKeates]

All well and good after the fact, but at the time it doesn't look good. You'd usually be expected to sort a job out with a late start date, then quit and just slack until the new job started.

I guess it's horses for courses. I didn't feel or have the need to immediately start looking for work.

Well, I would. No disrespect intended.

Fair enough, but I think you should reassess the way you perceive it. I can't think of many good reasons to hold a short break from working against a candidate. If they were in a position where they didn't have to work, why penalise them for it?

I'm soon to take a new position (assuming no catastrophe) after the few month break I am currently on, and the question of what I've been doing in this period has not even arisen in general conversation, let alone during assessment.

Either way, quibbling over 5g when you're at that pay scale is just mental

It's 10%. That's the equivalent of a pretty decent pay rise, and quite a lot to just discount.

 

[britboy4321]

Im inclined to agree with this as over the last 6 months I've read some rather odd things in his threads which don't really make sense now when thinking back. Also asking for simply salary advice when your at that payscale anyway is utterly retarded in my opinion.

So the more you earn, the more retarded it is to question a percentage based income pay drop? Riiigggght.

(Hey guess what dude, doctors earn 6 figures and they have huge great expensive annual meetings to discuss each year's rise and whether it's acceptable or action is needed (and they moan on about single percentage points). So following super-James logic that must make doctors ultra-retards with their simple salary advice meetings. Lol?). I will never understand how someone has got old and wise enough to use the internet, but not old and wise enough to realise that at all levels people take advice about salary ..

I will never underestimate the daftness of t'net. It's legendary, and kinda fun. Especially from the young 'uns!

 

[bobert50]

The answer is surely whichever one YOU want to do? after all...you know your circumstances better than anyone else.

I've been thinking of taking a crap....but i'm unsure of what time of day is best....a/b/c/d ...

 

[britboy4321]

The answer is surely whichever one YOU want to do? after all...you know your circumstances better than anyone else.

I've been thinking of taking a crap....but i'm unsure of what time of day is best....a/b/c/d ...

Clearly 'B' - during work time, when you're being paid .

 

[meghatronic]

er .. 5 grand. Whats the difference between 45K and 40 eh? What about 40 and 35? There's got to be a line in the sand somewhere .. really I'd hope for 60 or 70 as I am in the city. 50 is my line in the sand - the very bottom of the bottom for someone with my experience in my geographical location (remember 'average reader' I'm probably almost twice your age with 15 years experience under my belt, so I'm not showing off -- any professional of my age should be commanding 50K)..

Well, £45k for a few months is better than £0k. That was my point

Fair enough, but I think you should reassess the way you perceive it. I can't think of many good reasons to hold a short break from working against a candidate. If they were in a position where they didn't have to work, why penalise them for it?

It's the way you sold it to be honest. Taking time off to travel (whilst a jolly) looks infinitely better than "catching up with friends" or reading. I do those things outside working hours. Maybe I'm being overly harsh, but I'm sure there is a more conservative way to describe your time off.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

So the more you earn, the more retarded it is to question a percentage based income pay drop? Riiigggght.

(Hey guess what dude, doctors earn 6 figures and they have huge great expensive annual meetings to discuss each year's rise and whether it's acceptable or action is needed (and they moan on about single percentage points). So following super-James logic that must make doctors ultra-retards with their simple salary advice meetings. Lol?). I will never understand how someone has got old and wise enough to use the internet, but not old and wise enough to realise that at all levels people take advice about salary ..

I will never underestimate the daftness of t'net. It's legendary, and kinda fun. Especially from the young 'uns!

Gosh, you do bang on about how you're halfway through your career and young uns and you being so much more progressed in life. I think you forget that you're not alone in this and that many of the forum members earn at least as much and in many cases far, far more than you currently do whilst not being so condescending and arrogant about it.

Your threads do not strike me as someone who can (or should) demand the salaries you discuss and it beggars belief that you would stoop to a computer forum to ask for advice on a 50 grand salary. Seriously, what kind of skills do you have where you cannot rationalise this yourself or at least with your peers and, you know, people you actually deal with in real life? It's staggering.

I firmly believe that some of what you say is true. I even more firmly believe that most of it - the good stuff, the salaries, the progression - is not. I'm not trolling you, this is my opinion.

e : which doctors do you know earning 6 figures? Please tell me more about your vast understanding of clinical salaries

 

[britboy4321]

I firmly believe that some of what you say is true. I even more firmly believe that most of it - the good stuff, the salaries, the progression - is not. I'm not trolling you, this is my opinion.

I was saying about being mid-career to explicitly emphasize I wasn't showing off, as 50K would be brilliant for say a graduate. Come on magnolia - do you think if someone was showing off and lying after 15 years in any industry he'd come out with a figure of 50K? You think 50K is an outrageous lie I've made up about salary? After 15 years in the city in the private sector? Lol?

If I *DID* want to lie I'd actually say I could do/got offered this job

http://www.jobserve.com/Murex-Project-Manager-City-Of-London-Contract-W7DC0FA2099BEB396.jsjob at £200,000 a year. THAT is good. 50K is bog-standard/low for what I do in the city (or just about any IT job whatsoever apart from desktop support)- and I've said 15 times ANYONE COULD DO IT I'M NOT PARTICULARLY GOOD. Doesn't sound like showing off/lying to me fella!.

Who'd lie about earning 50K in the city? Nice looking blonde PA's after 12 months will be on 40K in the city. Answer me this truthfully .. by the time you're in your 40s, will you expect to be on 50K (today's money)? I blimin' hope so! That's a low/standard middle class family income, that's all ..

In short, you need to chill out, and only be jealous of things worth being jealous of. 50K at midlife is not that amazing fella' in fact it's not even good .. relax!

 

[britboy4321]

e : which doctors do you know earning 6 figures? Please tell me more about your vast understanding of clinical salaries

Average salary £109,974


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-surplus--consultants-pay-soars-25-cent.html

Anything else I can help you out with?

 

[PardonTheWait]

I think maybe people might get irked because you, as a lah-de-dah city type, come on here and moan about taking a job that offers, in your eyes, a relative pittance, and as a normal person, it can get up your nose when you're struggling to find any job at all, or worried about money in your £16k a year job, or whatever, and someone comes on crying like a little girl that they've just got offered a job with a £45k pay packet and they're not sure it's enough. It may strike a lot of people that this thread is more about how much it pays, not how little, despite your protestations.

We're not all city types, and we're not all confident that we can cruise our way up to £50k.

Especially by having 'ant wars' and hilariously trapping Indian workers in desk mazes.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

I'm not yet 40 and earn a great deal more than the number you're talking about in this thread. This is partly why I find it so bizarre that you're seeking advice for a good but not great salary on a computer forum where very few of the members are in your line of work. What do you expect to achieve?

Many of your posts are money related, which is fine, but there's often an apparent bragging element to it. You're right, 50k isn't extraordinary for your stage of life but your posts make it appear that it is.

I'm not jealous - I have absolutely no reason to be - I just find many of your posts to not ring true.

 

[britboy4321]

I think maybe people might get irked because you, as a lah-de-dah city type, come on here and moan about taking a job that offers, in your eyes, a relative pittance, and as a normal person, it can get up your nose when you're struggling to find any job at all, or worried about money in your £16k a year job, or whatever, and someone comes on crying like a little girl that they've just got offered a job with a £45k pay packet and they're not sure it's enough. It may strike a lot of people that this thread is more about how much it pays, not how little, despite your protestations.

We're not all city types, and we're not all confident that we can cruise our way up to £50k.

Especially by having 'ant wars' and hilariously trapping Indian workers in desk mazes.

Indeed thats explicitly why I didn't mention the salary in the OP. Then people badgered and badgered me into it. Then they all lay into me!

I hope the 'I'm having my house repossessed' thread gets the same treatment! (As in, I don't believe you ever had a house you lying toerag!!)

 

[PardonTheWait]

You talk about money, your work and salary incessantly. Don't blame other people.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Average salary £109,974


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-surplus--consultants-pay-soars-25-cent.html

Anything else I can help you out with?

I misunderstood. I thought your example was referencing GPs and Consultants who you actually knew and can corroborate their salary being in 6 figures. Instead it was a guess which you've then backed up with (ho ho!) a Daily Mail article which specifically talks about averages. I'll leave you to work out why taking the average of a massively disparate pay scale structure makes great headlines but poor reporting.

Also, thanks for fixing the broken link which lead, I think, to a different article. What was it, out of interest?

 

[britboy4321]

You talk about money, your work and salary incessantly. Don't blame other people.

Ironically I currently don't have any work .. :/

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Indeed thats explicitly why I didn't mention the salary in the OP. Then people badgered and badgered me into it. Then they all lay into me!

I hope the 'I'm having my house repossessed' thread gets the same treatment! (As in, I don't believe you ever had a house you lying toerag!!)

Look, you're Loadsamoney but without the class.

Or the money, I expect.

 

[britboy4321]

I misunderstood. I thought your example was referencing GPs and Consultants who you actually knew and can corroborate their salary being in 6 figures. Instead it was a guess which you've then backed up with (ho ho!) a Daily Mail article which specifically talks about averages. I'll leave you to work out why taking the average of a massively disparate pay scale structure makes great headlines but poor reporting.

Also, thanks for fixing the broken link which lead, I think, to a different article. What was it, out of interest?

Different article saying same thing basically except moaning on about GPs salary also being mental high 6 figures.

I also originally said 'average salary 6 figures' in the post you contended, then you said 'prove it', then I did, then you said 'well .. er .. average is a naff way of looking at it'. Doh!

I put all my money into the mortgage (and stupid business idea that failed - see dragons den! ) so when I put my cash card into the wall it probably says less on the balance than when you do yours.

Finally, believe it or not, as far as I remember - I haven't actually lied about anything! Can you imagine!

 

[Lakeland]

4 - but you're assuming you'll get it

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Different article saying same thing basically except moaning on about GPs salary also being mental high 6 figures.

I also originally said 'average salary 6 figures' in the post you contended, then you said 'prove it', then I did, then you said 'well .. er .. average is a naff way of looking at it'. Doh!

It doesn't prove anything other than the fact that you don't know any GPs or Consultants and you have even less idea what they are actually paid.

I put all my money into the mortgage (and stupid business idea that failed - see dragons den! ) so when I put my cash card into the wall it probably says less on the balance than when you do yours.

Perhaps but that's not the only reason.

Finally, believe it or not, as far as I remember - I haven't actually lied about anything! Can you imagine!

Ok man, I'm not going to call you a liar. Your posting style is interesting and doesn't often match up with your claims. I'll leave it there.

Good luck in whatever you choose to do should you be offered the role for the 45k or whatever. I mean that genuinely.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

4) Get job. Take job at rubbish wage. Keep job hunting, if you get a job 6 weeks later on decent wage 'er .. thanks for the job, I'm outta here fools!' otherwise reluctantly take home the little amount you get (!!)