Leave a job your happy in?

******* hell that OP is difficult to translate! Is your role writing instructions for flat pack furniture?

I think you are doing 225 miles per day, 4 days a week, each day is a 5hr round trip commute?

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Zefan said:
Let me get this straight. New job is:

1) "A lot" closer than your frankly completely crazy 2.5hr each way commute (any closer is better, a lot sounds much much better)
2) Financially leapfrogs your prospects in your current place
3) You are purely results based rather than simply time in seat based (realistically, all jobs are somewhat results based...) does this mean no core hours at all or you still need to be in office even if your results are resulting?

My actual brother... Unless you see something truly special with your current place, or there are obvious red flags at the other place, it seems like a total no brainer.
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That commute alone would be having me looking elsewhere - time is a priceless commodity.
 
dlockers said:
Well done for clarifying seems you were right and OP was saying 5 hours a day :cry: :cry:
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I just feel for the OP. I couldn’t do that.

I did commute for almost 1.5 hrs for a contract job from Bedford to Uxbridge, but it was all train / underground and the day rate was good. Only did it for a year and stayed in a hotel one night a week.

Don’t think I could reasonably function knowing I had the drive either side of the day.
 
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It's 40PCM but you'd only pay ~20PCM as you'd be murdered by week 2.
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Sounds like a bargain. Wouldn't have to go back to work

I bet most people that do ~5/6 hours a day driving would rather crash there, not only saving money it's local, and working you come back at 6pm anyway so literally shower, eat then bed.
 
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ivrytwr3 said:
******* hell that OP is difficult to translate! Is your role writing instructions for flat pack furniture?

I think you are doing 225 miles per day, 4 days a week, each day is a 5hr round trip commute?

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That commute alone would be having me looking elsewhere - time is a priceless commodity.
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Lol

Zefan got it right about the commute.
 
Thanks for all your responses, a lot to think about.
If I hated my job it would be a no brainer, but I have had jobs that I hated which makes thinking of leaving my current job harder.
 
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bakes0310 said:
Thanks for all your responses, a lot to think about.
If I hated my job it would be a no brainer, but I have had jobs that I hated which makes thinking of leaving my current job harder.
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I know what you mean, I suppose it really depends on what you value most. Draw up a list of pros and cons and score them if possible, try to make the qualitative quantitative as much as possible.
 
I did a 90mins commute each way and not a cat in hells chance I'd go back to it.

If you love the job so much can I ask why moving closer isn't an option? If that's not I'd be looking at the closer jobs for sure - you simply can't put a price on time
 
Having a decent job in the middle of that commute must be the only thing keeping you going but even still. I was doing a 90 mins / 2 hours commute on bus/train for 6 months during the colder half of the year and not sure what got me through it, the occasional work-from-home days probably. The job was awful to boot though.

I took a reasonable "pay cut" (Wasn't really much of one when you factor not paying for trains anymore) for a local job that was 25 mins on the bus and didn't look back, it was a much better job too which helps.

Providing you aren't going into a terrible job (Don't ignore red flags during interview process) I think you'll find that extra time back in your life incredible.

That or like people say, move closer.
 
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I did 70 miles a day for 6 months. Luckily by month 3 I realised the job was a load of rubbish despite the pay and handed in my notice. 12 hour days followed by 1 hour either side. I was waking up at 3am just to get to work in time for a 5am start.

Original plan was to sell and move there but I soon realised what a mess I got myself in for!
 
I don't think I could put up with a commute that long. Ultimately while I get that it can be a risk moving jobs (in case you don't enjoy it) I think there is so much upside from the commute alone (even ignoring the salary uplift that it's worth taking the chance. And you might end up enjoying it more than your current job anyway.
 
hornetstinger said:
Sounds like a bargain. Wouldn't have to go back to work

I bet most people that do ~5/6 hours a day driving would rather crash there, not only saving money it's local, and working you come back at 6pm anyway so literally shower, eat then bed.
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Better off having a camper or even better a caravan. You can get 4 nights for less than £100 a week and most sites. Then spend 3 nights at home.

Using the OP's calculation 900 miles costs. £147 a week averaging 40mpg. Not to mention the 15 hours of your life a week you get back.

You have the initial cost of the caravan but that is an asset you can sell if things change.
 
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bakes0310 said:
Yes it is, i do 900 miles in total each week from Monday to Thursday. It takes me about 2 and half hours to get to work and about the same coming home, this is my commute every week.

New commute is a bit harder to work out but I won't be leaving my county of Somerset, it'll be a lot less.
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Take the new job, increased pay and reduced commute.
 
Here’s a thought… get the job offer for the new job, then re-negotiate your current job but be prepared to leave if the re-negotiation ain’t successful. You don’t want to be seen as the boy who cried wolf.

I would start by asking for a 4 day week doing the same number of hours, gives you an extra day off.

Maybe ask for one day a week working from home too.

Obviously expect a pay uplift and set targets and dates for promotions.

There’s no bonus for loyalty now a days… I; on the other hand hate, every job I’ve had, I would rather be rich and miserable for what I do than poor and miserable. I aim to fill up my pension pot, pay off my mortgage and have enough savings to quit working before retirement age. Then I may take a job where I can be pally with people doing something I enjoy.
 
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