Spiky Bugger
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The Background:
So, you were out of work and a business hired you part-time and, in no time, you proved your worth and you got promoted to a nice, full-time job that pays well, has insurance, but no retirement plan. (And saving enough to retire someday is rough.)
You are very busy, but not particularly challenged. You'd like to head home around 5 pm, but the powers that be are night owls, barely get in before 10 or 11, and schedule meetings that START at 5 pm. You often, but randomly, work evenings and weekends, making planning your life a bit difficult. If someone who works for you has a family emergency or calls in sick, you have to go to work. (And one of those someones does that a lot.)
And there's this other job. It will have weird hours, but REGULARLY SCHEDULED weird hours. That is, for a few months you might work from 6 am to 2:30 pm and then there may, or may not, be a shift change and you would work from 10 pm until 6:30 am. This job pays a lot less to start...but, over time has automatic pay raises. And it has a retirement plan.
The Problem:
Your contact at the new job has indicated that the next round of hiring will likely take place on or about March 1st. And since you are suddenly being asked for all those pre-employment things to prove you have the right to work here, there's a fair chance you will be invited to join that March 1st group. Except...at the job you have now, the major money-making deal of the year...the one that involves major planning, and someone who really, really knows what they are doing and big BIG name entertainment people and all that crap will be happening in mid-to-late April. And if you walk out on March 1st...even giving notice mid February...you are leaving people hanging.
The Question:
Do you take the job that will better protect your future...and leave the current employer hanging. Or do you get your current company through this big deal and hope you get into the next round of hiring at the job with (eventually) higher pay and benefits? (And hope it isn't a year from now, presenting a rerun of this problem.)
And why?
So, you were out of work and a business hired you part-time and, in no time, you proved your worth and you got promoted to a nice, full-time job that pays well, has insurance, but no retirement plan. (And saving enough to retire someday is rough.)
You are very busy, but not particularly challenged. You'd like to head home around 5 pm, but the powers that be are night owls, barely get in before 10 or 11, and schedule meetings that START at 5 pm. You often, but randomly, work evenings and weekends, making planning your life a bit difficult. If someone who works for you has a family emergency or calls in sick, you have to go to work. (And one of those someones does that a lot.)
And there's this other job. It will have weird hours, but REGULARLY SCHEDULED weird hours. That is, for a few months you might work from 6 am to 2:30 pm and then there may, or may not, be a shift change and you would work from 10 pm until 6:30 am. This job pays a lot less to start...but, over time has automatic pay raises. And it has a retirement plan.
The Problem:
Your contact at the new job has indicated that the next round of hiring will likely take place on or about March 1st. And since you are suddenly being asked for all those pre-employment things to prove you have the right to work here, there's a fair chance you will be invited to join that March 1st group. Except...at the job you have now, the major money-making deal of the year...the one that involves major planning, and someone who really, really knows what they are doing and big BIG name entertainment people and all that crap will be happening in mid-to-late April. And if you walk out on March 1st...even giving notice mid February...you are leaving people hanging.
The Question:
Do you take the job that will better protect your future...and leave the current employer hanging. Or do you get your current company through this big deal and hope you get into the next round of hiring at the job with (eventually) higher pay and benefits? (And hope it isn't a year from now, presenting a rerun of this problem.)
And why?