My daughter has had a couple of crossroads with her job where she's thought about trying something else, but always stayed put 'cos she's the major bread winner, comfortable job, lack of confidence, afraid of change or failure etc. She's been there 20 years. She can't go any higher where she is and any moves sideways have resulted in the job being based interstate in their head office. In fact, the writing is on the wall that the company is moving towards basing everything in HO and closing down the branch she works in.
In a fit of boredom & frustration a couple of weeks ago she put out feelers to an ex rep who works for an opposition company and said if anything comes up - keep her in mind. Well the boss of that company rang her while on holidays last week and has something for her. Now she's in a bit of a panic. She's excited that there's something else out there for her, excited that it happened so quickly and so on. She's confident enough now to go elsewhere and knows she has to especially with probable closure of where she is within the next 12-24 months (by my reckoning as I have worked there temping recently and recognise the signs).
So, the question is - does she take the job and run and miss out on the redundancy package worth between 80-100k or get that first then get another job assuming there's one around for her then. Who knows what the job climate will be like later, but it's a lot of money to turn her back on.
In a fit of boredom & frustration a couple of weeks ago she put out feelers to an ex rep who works for an opposition company and said if anything comes up - keep her in mind. Well the boss of that company rang her while on holidays last week and has something for her. Now she's in a bit of a panic. She's excited that there's something else out there for her, excited that it happened so quickly and so on. She's confident enough now to go elsewhere and knows she has to especially with probable closure of where she is within the next 12-24 months (by my reckoning as I have worked there temping recently and recognise the signs).
So, the question is - does she take the job and run and miss out on the redundancy package worth between 80-100k or get that first then get another job assuming there's one around for her then. Who knows what the job climate will be like later, but it's a lot of money to turn her back on.