Re: Advice appreciated! Employment question...
If my math is right, you will be making only $700 less/month when you figure in the daycare savings. If you can just find a few hrs per week you will make that up quick at the new job.
1 part time job can help make you a portion of the $700. I know someone who does drop in daycare 1 day a week. In that one day she can make up to $250, charging $5.00 per hr per kid. She lives near a shopping mall and word of mouth keeps her busy!
I think you should take the new job. If you really like your job and do it well, they will find you a 40 hr position or a promotion with a pay raise.
A young couple in town told us a story one time at their new house warming party. After college they both worked and were married soon after school ended. With nothing tying them down they decided to let work take them wherever. He worked as a salesman and after being dissatisfied that he could not get a pay raise (non commission job) he decided to go elsewhere. When the 1st company found out they offered him a very nice pay raise. Well he let them battle it out and eventually went to the 2nd company for over twice his original pay from company 1.
Meanwhile she began to work for a bank even though she had a degree and wanted to do pharmaceutical sales. She actually liked the work and offered to relocate to any new branch opening as long as she was given a pay raise or a promotion. When she decided to quit 4 years later she was head of business loans for 5 local branches and making 60k/yr.
Wait, it gets worse! They found a house they loved and made an unbelievably lowball offer. The house was 3600 sq ft and was just being finished and listed at $309k. After sitting on the house for almost a yr, the builder called him up and asked if he was still interested in buying the house at his original offer. Scott counter-offered and asked for a couple smaller things and bought the house for $251k. That was almost 6 yrs ago. The smaller house next door is listed at $395k.
They make me sick...lol
Moral of the story...do what makes you happy and all will fall in place! And if not, please do not blame me.
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