So I currently split time between two IT tier 1 support roles. One job is two days a week at a food manufacturer and I hate that place, but the place I'm at three days a week is a local MSP (managed service provider) about 5 minutes from my house that I love working at. I started at the MSP about a little over a year ago as an intern making $10 an hour. Around February I was offered a non related IT job for $14.00hr. Only working about 20hrs a week at the MSP I used that offer to ask for full time work at the MSP. The MSP didn't give me full time but they did match the pay and got me another part time job at the food manufacturer for the same pay. So currently I work about 42hrs a week between the two places making 14hr at both.
I've been dying to work at a single place for a couple months now, I'm tired of having to split my time between two places. I really love the work I get to do at the MSP and I enjoy the people I work with so I would love to get full time employment there. I just feel like I haven't been offered such things because I haven't really asked them for it since February. So Monday I got said I've had enough of working at two places and started submitting my resume to a few jobs in my area. Less then 8 hours later I got a call from another job I submitted my resume to telling me they would like to schedule an interview next week. This job is pretty much covers the same duties that I do now but is offering between $20-22/hr compared to the $14hr i make now. If they offer me the job should I use that as leverage to try to get my MSP job to match their offer? Or is it a bad idea to try to use another job offer to leverage better pay twice in the same year? I'm prepared to take the new job if needed, but I would really love to get hired full time at the MSP as I enjoy how much I get to do there, the people I work with and how much I learn on a regular basis. Any advice is greatly appreciated, thanks!
Edit: I should have mentioned that my in the past my supervisor did mention to me that if I ever received other job offers to inform them so they can evaluate the offer and see what they can do for me regarding possibly matching such an offer. Not sure if this is common practice or not but I figured I should include that detail. Also the new job would be about a 35min-45min drive one way compared to my current job which is about 4 minutes from my house.
TLDR; Possibly getting offered an IT job with better pay. I really like my current job but could really use the increased pay. Should I use this as leverage to get full time work and better pay at my current job?
Submitted September 28, 2018 at 09:49AM by Riley_Cubs https://ift.tt/2xZWP2b
