Before I start, I'm not sure what i'm exactly asking and the final line is only i can make this decision but i need to get it off my chest.
Today I went for an interview with a large international engineering company here in Prague, it consisted in a number of interviews ranging from casual chats to being asked to point out certain things on technical drawings and the most nerve wracking was one in front of a panel of three senior engineers in the company.
By the end I was basically asked a number of questions and given some serious hints that I'd be offered the job of a designer in the turbine housing design team, I'd be involved in using FEA to analyse new designs of turbine housings for turbos (the hot side if you weren't sure
).
To be honest it's an ideal job for me as a graduate to get on the first rung of the ladder.
The problem is that it's in another city about 2.5 hours away by train, I've become quite settled in Prague living with my girlfriend who is at university here so can't move, we've got a flat together and everything is fine. The train fares if i bought them on a day to day basis would work out at about half of my wages, the other half taken up by rent, I'd only be left with the equivalent of about £20 - £50 per month after that. A big sacrifice and a challenging state of affairs in anyone's book and 5 hours commuting per day doesn't exactly fill me with glee.
The only other option that i can think of is to move out of our current flat into a smaller one in Prague which could roughly half our rent and then rent a bedsit or flat share in the other city, spend monday-friday living in the other city then come back at weekends. It's certainly the mosy pocket friendly option but would involve spending time away from my g/f and all the hassles of finding 2 new flats, moving all our stuff and possibly losing our deposit on the flat we're in now as we haven't been here longer than the minimum period stated in the tennancy agreement. My g/f has also said that she doesn't like the idea of me being away during the week and wouldn't want me to move away because she'll miss me, but has said she understands that the job is something I really want to do to get my career started.
Money wise i'd be on the same wage as i am now but i'd also get a relocation package consisting of two month wages up front. I'd get 5 weeks holiday a year instead of the 4 have now and I'll get the company pension and health insurance package too, neither of which i have now. The prospects to climb the ladder are also virtually unlimited being a multinational where as my current job is quite limited in that respect being quite a small company. So there's no doubt it'd be a better job in the long run.
Like I said I haven't even been offered the job but they'll contact me next week and i'll have to decide almost immediately as the senior engineer said that i may be required to start as little as 10 days after being offered the job, which also makes me wonder about my current job as i'm covering for a couple of people who are on holiday, if I leave with almost no notice i'll be leaving them up **** creek as there is nobody who could immediately take over my job.
All of which is playing on my mind and I only have a week to deciede
I may be crazy given all the benefits but the negatives are really laying heavilly on my mind 
So there we have it, thanks for sticking with me this far as i'm sure there's loads of grammatical mistakes in there and things are in a bit of a random order but i just wrote it down as it leaked out of my head.
Today I went for an interview with a large international engineering company here in Prague, it consisted in a number of interviews ranging from casual chats to being asked to point out certain things on technical drawings and the most nerve wracking was one in front of a panel of three senior engineers in the company.
By the end I was basically asked a number of questions and given some serious hints that I'd be offered the job of a designer in the turbine housing design team, I'd be involved in using FEA to analyse new designs of turbine housings for turbos (the hot side if you weren't sure
).To be honest it's an ideal job for me as a graduate to get on the first rung of the ladder.
The problem is that it's in another city about 2.5 hours away by train, I've become quite settled in Prague living with my girlfriend who is at university here so can't move, we've got a flat together and everything is fine. The train fares if i bought them on a day to day basis would work out at about half of my wages, the other half taken up by rent, I'd only be left with the equivalent of about £20 - £50 per month after that. A big sacrifice and a challenging state of affairs in anyone's book and 5 hours commuting per day doesn't exactly fill me with glee.
The only other option that i can think of is to move out of our current flat into a smaller one in Prague which could roughly half our rent and then rent a bedsit or flat share in the other city, spend monday-friday living in the other city then come back at weekends. It's certainly the mosy pocket friendly option but would involve spending time away from my g/f and all the hassles of finding 2 new flats, moving all our stuff and possibly losing our deposit on the flat we're in now as we haven't been here longer than the minimum period stated in the tennancy agreement. My g/f has also said that she doesn't like the idea of me being away during the week and wouldn't want me to move away because she'll miss me, but has said she understands that the job is something I really want to do to get my career started.
Money wise i'd be on the same wage as i am now but i'd also get a relocation package consisting of two month wages up front. I'd get 5 weeks holiday a year instead of the 4 have now and I'll get the company pension and health insurance package too, neither of which i have now. The prospects to climb the ladder are also virtually unlimited being a multinational where as my current job is quite limited in that respect being quite a small company. So there's no doubt it'd be a better job in the long run.
Like I said I haven't even been offered the job but they'll contact me next week and i'll have to decide almost immediately as the senior engineer said that i may be required to start as little as 10 days after being offered the job, which also makes me wonder about my current job as i'm covering for a couple of people who are on holiday, if I leave with almost no notice i'll be leaving them up **** creek as there is nobody who could immediately take over my job.
All of which is playing on my mind and I only have a week to deciede
I may be crazy given all the benefits but the negatives are really laying heavilly on my mind So there we have it, thanks for sticking with me this far as i'm sure there's loads of grammatical mistakes in there and things are in a bit of a random order but i just wrote it down as it leaked out of my head.
