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

James J said:
Atleast quote me correctly instead of just trying to make it look different. I said "instead think about not taking a job because you can live off your "savings" yet having a job, even at a lower wage would stop you draining your savings account further and fill the gap in your CV, attracting more employment."

Difficult to understand I'm guessing...
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It's not as simple as that

1) Notice period, can't got for jobs requiring immediate start any more (like most IT contracting jobs)
2) Rubbish job hurts all professional CVs ('you did WHAT?'? WHERE?)
3) If rubbish job salary lower than spending, savings still screwed just slower - it wouldn't 'stop me draining savings' ..
4) Interviews only want to talk about most recent job. If that's rubbish, goodbye decent career.
5) The gap in CV is easily accounted for elsewhere (Sabbatical, travelling, looking after sick relative, doing self-study, anything)
6) If I take the job, the next interview they'll think I'm a quitter for wanting to leave 'rubbish job' after a few weeks without giving it a decent try ...
7) In fact they'll think that's unreasonable, and I'll do the same unreasonableness to them - so not bother with me .. but even if they do ..
8) The new job will want a reference from rubbish job, so the game will be up as far as they're concerned and even rubbish job folk will hate me..
9) And rubbish job will dump me or I'll have no hope of ever getting anywhere within it, as they know I want out ..
10) So I've been fired from rubbish job or hated there, have a corrupted CV, my most recent employer hates me, gives bad references, my latest job was rubbish, and I'm back onto churning through my savings but now not really taken seriously again from 'decent job' companies ...

Is that the 'common sense' plan you speak of? Wow - it's flawless!

:) don't worry James me old mucka' I'm just messing with ya!
 
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So now you've just given yourself 10 reasons why you shouldn't pursue the job you made the thread about. Also known as using your common sense lol.
 
James J said:
So now you've just given yourself 10 reasons why you shouldn't pursue the job you made the thread about. Also known as using your common sense lol.
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I was, for a while, flip-flopping about what to do .. hence the thread.

The above 10 reasons was just showing it's not as common sense a question as you thought, when you called me 'utterly retarded' for not seeing taking the job as obvious - remember?
 
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britboy4321 said:
I was, for a while, flip-flopping about what to do .. hence the thread.

The above 10 reasons was just showing it's not as common sense a question as you thought, when you called me 'utterly retarded' for not seeing taking the job as obvious - remember?
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Woah there, get the reins sorted on that horse before you fall off it. I said what you was asking was utterly retarded, not you. Trying to make it look like a personal attack is laughable at best. Still you got your answer in the end, congratulations.
 
britboy4321 said:
2) Rubbish job hurts all professional CVs ('you did WHAT?'? WHERE?)
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:confused:

Rubbish imo, I think people who aren't snobbish ****'s and are open to anything including a little bit of physical work here and there occasionally are far more desirable than a work shy geek who ( for example) goes ranting on OcUK that he has been asked to help in the warehouse and never gets his hands dirty.
 
snowdog said:
Rubbish imo, I think people who aren't snobbish ****'s and are open to anything including a little bit of physical work here and there occasionally are far more desirable than a work shy geek who ( for example) goes ranting on OcUK that he has been asked to help in the warehouse and never gets his hands dirty.
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I'm not so sure. There is often a strong demand for good, qualified professionals. If you have a period of time on your CV where you worked in Burger King, people who are debating whether to make you an employment offer are going to wonder how or why you ended up there after a string of interesting positions. A break in history is, comparatively, far more understandable.
 
The OP is talking about a similar job but at a lower salary to which he expects from what I can gather. It's not a position completely beneath him. Other than that, I agree with you PMKeates.
 
[FnG]magnolia;17092080 said:
The OP is talking about a similar job but at a lower salary to which he expects from what I can gather. It's not a position completely beneath him. Other than that, I agree with you PMKeates.
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I had that in mind when I replied, but I haven't read through all the posts in enough detail to be sure that it's not a position that potentially looks "out of place". For example, I'm not sure that this wouldn't be a stint at Burger King after a career of roles in department stores. So, similar pay grades and levels of responsibility, but not really the sector that the OP specialises in. As I said, I haven't read all of the posts in enough detail to be sure that this isn't the case.
 
PMKeates said:
I'm not so sure. There is often a strong demand for good, qualified professionals. If you have a period of time on your CV where you worked in Burger King, people who are debating whether to make you an employment offer are going to wonder how or why you ended up there after a string of interesting positions. A break in history is, comparatively, far more understandable.
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Yet...Given the current economic climate it is kind of justified no? I worked at wickes for 4 months lugging all the deliverys to peoples houses, now i'm back in IT.
 
PMKeates said:
Maybe, but would you have done it if you had sufficient savings so as to not have to?
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Not really, because it's happened to me before, and all people have asked me during interviews is 'why haven't you worked for six months then' ?

Me: 'Oh I had loads of savings so thought sod it' (That was an example by the way :p)

I was made redundant in 2008, had to leave another job in 2009 due to tinnitus, then the last employer in 2010 sold his business...So i've had a fair wack of experience in that department sadly :(

I'd much rather have some form of filler inbetween the gap....hell, I volunteered at my mums charity shop a fair bit just to say that i'd been doing something at least.
 
[FnG]magnolia;17086279 said:
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?
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I know a couple, one's a bog standard GP on around £75k, the other is > 100K but they run the actual practice.
 
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