Job Dilema

[Macs]

I have been offered a job at a very well known chemical plant. It pays twice hourly then my current company pays ( it will equal about the same a year but i will be working only 40 hrs instead of 60 - 100 hrs). It has a great 401k plan ( 7% match plus profit sharing) and plenty of room for advancement. The only downfall is, it is about an hour drive away.

My current job is within 5 minutes from my house. I get a company truck, expense accounts, cell phone and health insurance for my entire family ( there is 4 of us). I have been with them 10 years. They have paid for my degree and treated me like part of the family. They have advanced me from holding a stop sign ( i guess i was cheaper then actually mounting one ) to basically running 1/2 of the company.

I am having major loyalty issues. My current company has been great to me. But if i stay with them there is no room to move up and make more. I will be stuck working alot of hours and not spending time with my family. The new job i will have tons of room for advancement ( i am basically starting out at the bottom of management ) and even more time to spend with the kiddos. I am having a dilema. What do yall think.

[edog]

I will pick whats behind door #1.

Your new job will require 50 hours of your time a week.At this point your only 10 hours from your other hours a week job of 60 hours.

[ATC-Eric]

I would go for the new job. The current company has been good to you, but its time you are good to yourself, and family.

60-100 hrs per week is ridiculouis, where is the time to spend with family, and toys?

If you can make the same, and work 20-50% less, I would go for it. Like you said, there is much room for advancement. Once youve been there for a bit, who knows what you'll be making, or doing.

The drive SUCKS, but you would still be home more for the same wages.

Good luck, once again this is just what I would do.

[Macs]

Thanks, that the way i am leaning. My concious is eating away at me though.

edog - 60 hours is on a slow week. I havnt had a day off since new years and i have worked 14.5hrs everyday. also the new job is a 4-10 work schedule so that would make it 48 hrs.

[edog]

Dude it's time for a change.

[Howdy]

Talk to your current employer about this before you make any changes. Don't mention the company your looking at going to. I did this with a company I worked with before and they totally understood my position. We worked out a agreement and I worked for them for another 3-4 years. I only moved for family / Health reasons.
Howdy

[Orangecnty250r]

Talk to your current employer about this before you make any changes. Don't mention the company your looking at going to. I did this with a company I worked with before and they totally understood my position. We worked out a agreement and I worked for them for another 3-4 years. I only moved for family / Health reasons.
Howdy

I was thinking the same thing before I read this.....if you are leaving what do you have to lose...the loyalty has to really work both ways or it IS time to move on.

[Dirtcrasher]

To me, a good rule is to start looking when you become too comfortable with your job. I always need a challenge and I always need to make more money. I'm at almost 5 years with my employer and it's getting near time to leave. He isn't going to pay me much more and these days you need to be making 30$ an hour and up to live comfortably.

It's nice to know the same people and settle in but once the money stops, it's time to go. When I start a new job I dive right in. I don't hang around and learn, I just start doing it. But when your maxed out then thats it...

I too work 4 - 12 hour days and it is da bomb!!

[smokinwrench]

In December I switched jobs from a job that was unset hours and worked 60 plus hours per week all the time.

I now drive to a job that is almost an hour away but only work 4 10 hour days. New job is great it did stink the first few weeks until I got to know the guys at the new job. I say wiegh all your options and seriously look at the new job. From what your saying the pay will only go higher. Also make sure they are gonna be a good place to work at, best pay in the world isn't worth being treated like crap all the time.

[Russell 350X]

Sounds like the new job is a better step than staying where you are at now. Just my .02

[Rustytinhorn]

Pray about it. He knows.

[Macs]

Thanks for all the info. I spent all day yesterday talking to people that work there. It seems to be great. I checked on there turnover rate. It seems no one leaves unless they retire. o it must be good. I will be a $28 an hr pay increase. So, i think i am going to go for it.

PS: My company couldnt offer me anything close to this. It is a small company. If they matched it i would be making more than the president of my company.

[Macs]

another thing i want to ad. The only real change from what i am doing now ( beside working alot less ). Right now i am a service provider to the customer. If i take this job i will be the customer overseeing the service provider. So i will just be on the other end of things.

[nate b]

$28/ hr increase over what you make now? If thats the case, I would have thought about it for maybe a half a second. I hope you were only making 2bucks an hour before, otherwise thats just sickening.

[xman23]

haha def go for it man, half hour ride isnt anything big, I live in a small town and half the town drives at least half hour to there job, the extra cash and time soent with your family is well worth it.