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  • 02-06-2004 6:00pm
    #1
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭


    What is more important in the long run - or even the medium term, 2-3 years - salary or enjoying your job/not being too stressed and being able to have a laugh at work? Working with people your own age or mainly older, more professional types? Any thoughts? Having a very tough time at the minute making a decision between two job offers - you wait for just one for so long, then both come along at once!


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  • #2
    skipn_easy
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    I'd say it depends what you want ... will lots of money make you happy, or will having a laugh at work with your colleagues make you happier even if you don't get to buy stuff.

    I had a very similar decision to make recently and it was really hard. You can't really make a wrong decision though, at the worst if after a while you decide you made the wrong choice you can always go after the other one (maybe not the same place).

    I definitely think the job is more important, since its what I'm going to be doing every day for the foreseeable future it has to be something that I enjoy.


  • #3
    WhiteWashMan
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    Originally posted by ionapaul
    What is more important in the long run - or even the medium term, 2-3 years - salary or enjoying your job/not being too stressed and being able to have a laugh at work? Working with people your own age or mainly older, more professional types? Any thoughts? Having a very tough time at the minute making a decision between two job offers - you wait for just one for so long, then both come along at once!

    whats important to you?

    whats your career plan, and how do these thigns fit into it?


  • #4
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    Thanks for the replies - had a good long think about it last night, discussed it out loud with my family. Despite my misgivings I will take the better paying job, as I have had a year of complete stagnation as far as my C.V. goes (unemployed or part-time work following a number of years gaining great experience in the States right out of college). the better paying job will teach me a lot more in the short-term and certainly look better on the C.V.

    I haven't much idea of what I would like to do for the next 30+ years, only know I would like to deal with people, perferrably an existing accounts manager or high-level customer service rather than a sales man, which is the path I will be on with this new job. However I hope that I can parlay good sales experience (higher-level stuff dealing with company executives rather than joe soap) into customer care/account management/client service roles in the future, should I dislike sales.

    P.S. Should mention that I am not overly worried about not having a defined career plan at the moment, or even knowing what I will be doing in five, ten or twenty years from now! I know I will be successful and happy whatever I end up choosing.


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