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Depends on your age and where your at. If you are young with few commitments it's probably worth it. You're unlikely to get such a jump again. How long in time is the commute?
 
OspreyO said:
Depends on your age and where your at. If you are young with few commitments it's probably worth it. You're unlikely to get such a jump again. How long in time is the commute?
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32, married, project house with no kids (yet).

The salary jump is what's really pushing it for me and that I've been in my current place 10 years now and there's nothing new to learn, plus most of my team left recently due to catastrophic management **** ups. The commute time is just under an hour on a good day but could quite easily become 1.5h-2h when accidents happen.
 
That's a long ish commute. Can you do an early/late shift to avoid traffic/accidents. What does your partner think. It's not ideal from quality of life pov. But the it's a 100% worth it for career.
 
Trifid said:
Can you take the train? At least then you can switch off while travelling. Otherwise I'd be looking to stagger the shifts to avoid the worst of the traffic.
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Looking at maps it's a bit under 3h to get the train, so no :D

Not sure they're too dependable these days either, or cheaper than the £20 per day petrol bill.
 
I went from software development WFH (well, ~1 day a week but variable) to full time managing a test lab. Same company, but switched areas. Also have a project house and ultimately I'm too tired to do much evenings and some weekends.

I was very sold on never commuting again after covid and resented taking this role - tried to negotiate a pay increase that could mean I'd pay for trades instead of DIY but got turned down.

I'm overall happy because I needed a change in role, but definitely the full time on prem is knackering me and I won't stick with it. I value my home life too much now.
 
LuckyBenski said:
I went from software development WFH (well, ~1 day a week but variable) to full time managing a test lab. Same company, but switched areas. Also have a project house and ultimately I'm too tired to do much evenings and some weekends.

I was very sold on never commuting again after covid and resented taking this role - tried to negotiate a pay increase that could mean I'd pay for trades instead of DIY but got turned down.

I'm overall happy because I needed a change in role, but definitely the full time on prem is knackering me and I won't stick with it. I value my home life too much now.
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Yeah that's what I'm a little worried about though I'm kinda lucky that it's a hybrid role and I'll still be WFH for 2 days.

Either way, think I should probably accept and just crack on with it, it's too big a pay increase to pass, especially since it's a decent company too.
 
Funky-Melon said:
Yeah that's what I'm a little worried about though I'm kinda lucky that it's a hybrid role and I'll still be WFH for 2 days.

Either way, think I should probably accept and just crack on with it, it's too big a pay increase to pass, especially since it's a decent company too.
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At your age I would do it.
 
@Funky-Melon if you only need to be in the office 3 days a week, depending on your office hours perhaps consider staying in cheap B&B accommodation 2 nights a week? You’ll only be missing two evenings and will be saving maybe 4-5 hours of commuting a week.

*****

I’m not quite sure where my career will move on to from here… but I’m pleased to say that my current role is easily the best I’ve ever had - it’s hard in all the right ways, good responsibility / accountability, good ‘close team’ colleagues, 100% work from home, good pay and little admin. Some individuals are hard work and things can be tedious, plus very under-resourced, but that’s always the way in any job.

Probably jinxing it… :o
 
OspreyO said:
At your age I would do it.
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I've accepted now. Sometimes you just need to **** it and make the change. Hopefully it's for the better.

Current place has lots of nice people, absolutely terrible owner and higher management though, very toxic and the work is a complete mess of people/managers not having a clue how to do anything. The only upside of the place is that it's a 5 min commute and almost always WFH, so this new role will be quite a change.
 
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On another note, for those not aware I work for VMware and we have the whole Broadcom takeover/China thing going on at the moment. It's a right mess, very little information going around and naturally everyone is worried about their jobs. I think I should be fine if it does happen, I'm on one of our largest accounts and for whatever reason I'm well respected. But with that said, Broadcom make the decisions and they'll do it from a spreadsheet or similar and will focus purely on numbers. Whether the takeover happens or not it's going to be a messy ride, our share value will plummet if the acquisition doesn't close, there will be mass redundancies, and I expect all C level people will be forced to resign by the board plus. At least TUPE should protect me somewhat no matter the outcome.
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How are things going over at VMware? It looks like Broadcom have gone in with a massive wrecking ball. I see this morning they've ended perpetual licensing and are forcing all customers to adopt a subscription model instead - I wonder how many are happy to do that.
 
Semple said:
How are things going over at VMware? It looks like Broadcom have gone in with a massive wrecking ball. I see this morning they've ended perpetual licensing and are forcing all customers to adopt a subscription model instead - I wonder how many are happy to do that.
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Plus the getting rid of EUC and Carbon Black (although the last one not really surprising) - sad state of affairs on the EUC one for me, I was a big fan of Horizon back in the day when it was View. Subscription model has been on the cards for ages though, BC have just sped that up.
 
Our leadership are all sociopaths - I'm now convinced of it. Dozens of senior people are really not happy - and the way they treat people is horrendous. They've completely lost control of spend, and blaming everyone but themselves... They use the "We" as basically "you lot" when talking to the business. They need a slap the lot of them.
 
Semple said:
How are things going over at VMware? It looks like Broadcom have gone in with a massive wrecking ball. I see this morning they've ended perpetual licensing and are forcing all customers to adopt a subscription model instead - I wonder how many are happy to do that.
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For me personally, nothing really has changed (yet!) except I use some different apps/systems for things like travel, email, files etc.

The end of perpetual licensing was coming under VMware anyway and it was targeted for next year. That's not a Broadcom thing, they've just brought it in a little sooner. What they have done however is massively simplified the licensing model and number of SKUs.
 
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Can you get in trouble for emailing your personal email from your work email?
Sometimes if i'm struggling with Excel/DAX code i'll make up a fictional data set and email it to my personal email so I can have a look at in the evening/weekend.
I mentioned this on reddit on someone suggested that i delete every single post i've ever made on a forum relating to said issues as it may be a data breach.

Am i missing something?
 
Bassmansam said:
Can you get in trouble for emailing your personal email from your work email?
Sometimes if i'm struggling with Excel/DAX code i'll make up a fictional data set and email it to my personal email so I can have a look at in the evening/weekend.
I mentioned this on reddit on someone suggested that i delete every single post i've ever made on a forum relating to said issues as it may be a data breach.

Am i missing something?
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Check your work policy, but you shouldn't really be emailing any confidential work data to your personal email.
 
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