Living in the Boston area as a single with no kids (yes, one of many things I hope to change soon) at the hopefully ripe age of 29...
So I’ve just been offered a 43% raise at a different healthcare company. I’ve been with my current company for almost five years. It’s been a nice run, things haven’t been as great of late (bit of an awkward workplace romance that’s ended with me sometimes struggling to see that person everyday, but that’s neither here nor there)
That said, a 43% raise to go from $63K to $90K is something you do 10 times out of 9, right?
I’ll get all qualifiers out of the way:
-Benefits are a wash. More specifically, free health insurance with both companies.
-PTO appears to be about a wash. It’ll come down to manager specific on getting days/time, but I suspect you have good and bad managers within both companies.
-I really don’t think there’s going to be a major upswing in the hours worked. I’m not suddenly going to be working investment banker hours, in other words.
Now for the bittersweet aspects of it...
-This company is considerably less prestigious in name than the other. It’s still well established, not some fly by night outfit by any means, but also doesn’t carry the same recognition.
-With that comes the fact that I’ll be giving up a lot of the corporate goodies I’d taken for granted. Free coffee/water, no more! State of the art cafeteria and elevators and building? Lol. This will be a major culture shock for me working in a place where the roof is coming down (okay hyperbole). Think of a facility where it’s like a high school in a less fortunate area (like my Alma mater...) and that’s what we’re looking at here. Picture one of those buildings they have on the show “Silicon Valley” and you have my current employer.
-Currently, I have one day work from home every week, which is a luxury that’ll be hard to say goodbye to. This new job DOES have remote work capabilities, but they said “it depends on the person” and “usually not right away with new employees”
So, I say all of this to say, assuming no match, I take this one, right? I’m just being a baby when it comes to my comforts in my status quo that I got so used to, right?
And a 43% Match from my current employers is probably unrealistic, right? While I’ve been with the company for 5 years almost, I’ve only been in this individual role for about a year, which leads me to my next question that they shouldn’t be too vindictive about me accepting a new role...particularly when I explain that I didn’t seek it out and I make it clear that this is a business decision?
Welcome all thoughts and ideas on this one!
Submitted March 03, 2018 at 06:21PM by quanbray11 http://ift.tt/2F7T5hx
