Job Dilemma

Diagro

Diagro

Diagro

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Hey


I currently work in a school. I am a Snr IT Tech.

It takes me 45min to get to work on a 22Mile each way drive, some days this can be over 1hr15min if traffic is poo. (record was 3 hours).

A job has opened up at a local college 3.1miles away from home, pay is the same BUT I would be full time permanent. along with going from a Snr position to a normal IT Tech position. I would loose my Holidays as I'm currently term time only.

With fuel saving I would be £100 better off per month.

My main issue is that my wife is a teacher, so at the moment we get time off together. Talks of a baby in a year too.

The Holidays are a massive bonus of working term time as I get to spend that time with my wife and doing DIY, and if / when a baby is added to the mix I would have time off to spend with them both.

There are no progression routes in my current job, the positions above me are filled and I don't see them leaving any time soon. I dont know what progression would be like in a college.

So I'm leaning towards staying in my current role as it has the holidays. But I do hate the driving. The new position would be 1/3 the drive time, 10% of the fuel costs but working full time.


What would you do? Sorry for the odd post, im just writing down my thoughts.
 
tom_e said:
Same pay and I take it you'd be dropping down to a standard 28ish days holiday a year from your current more holidays than you know what to do with?

Sounds like a bad move to be honest, especially as you don't know if you'd be any better off progression wise.

Keep the old job, get a motorbike, kiss goodbye to getting stuck in traffic and learn to love your commute.

Edit: by same pay are you comparing the current job on a pro rata basis to the full time salary at the new place or are you talking actual take home cash?
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Take home pay, no other way to work it out :)

cheesyboy said:
No way I'd ditch those holidays for that.

If there was certainty of opportunity of (good) career progression, then maybe consider the move. Dropping from, what, 70 days holiday to about 30 is a huge loss, though.
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It would be a big loss indeed.

Would it be silly to send an application through but make a small point that the salary they are offering is too low? If they say.. raised it by 5k I would be more interested.
 
Interesting. Ok. I will talk to my wife and go from there.

IT just pays so little these days. And Education jobs expect the world from people.

They want an IT Tech who has Experience with AD and MAC OD... That's stuff that more senior staff are required to have at much higher pay scales...
 
cheesyboy said:
I'm not in IT, but i was under the impression that such roles in schools and colleges were usually something to take for a few years to get experience before moving on to a well-paid private sector role (?).

Can't imagine it's appropriate for a career unless the monstrous holidays suit your lifestyle (and why wouldn't they), whilst at the same time the lower pay doesn't impact too significantly.
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Well yea, that's what i thought when I joined. But unfortunately all I have done here is stuff I could do before. Not really learnt much as the other IT staff keep what they do close to them, not much scope for learning. and if you take into account all the experience that jobs in industry want... its impossible to see how it helps.
 
Zefan said:
There is - you work out how much you're being paid on a time in work basis. Per day/per hour. It might be interesting to do that.
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will do that now

Currently If you take into account i only work 39 weeks of the year.

It works out at £381 per week (of actual work)

If i moved it would be £312 Per week of actual work.

So for them to match my actual current "work" pay they need to increase the monthly take home After tax by £276. wow... yea no way would they do that lol


* the numbers above are not real. (within 10-20%)
 
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Well I have put an Application in anyway, Will be worth it for the Interview experience if nothing else.

I have also decided to do a Masters in Intelligent Systems over the next few years.
 
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