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Nelek11-Jan-15 22:02
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I am in the middle of a job switch right now.

I have been almost 7 years in this company. I was not so good paid as in other places and it was very stressfull from time to time (industry automation = PLC, Robots and so on). But... the company has fully trusted me, I could manage my own time, I was allowed to handle with customers on my own (for important or very expensive matters I had to ask though), work clima was very good (all between 25 and 40 years old and with a nice team feeling), extra hours account without deadline (I even had 4 months vacations once, when my GF ended studies and we made a long asia tour).

During this 7 years a customer tried to headhunt me a couple of times. I would have earned 20% or 25% more, but I was there 4 years as extern and I didn't like the clima, the ingeneers were always overloaded, flat rate hours, vacations must be consumed in the year or get lost and more and more and more

I am now changing because I bought a house and got married, and my current job is 90 Km (one way) far from home. That means: I have set my highest priority to "Family".

I would say, if new job gives you better quality of life and it is important to you, then it is worth the risk. Being somewhere where your evolution has a top or you are underchallenged it is not so nice.

My father taught me to set an own deadline and start two lists everytime I had a very important decission to make. One with "pro's" and the other with "contra's" but always with facts trying to avoid the "what if's", fill them honestly during a time with every little aspect that comes to mind and then, when deadline comes, have a look to both lists and decide according to the lists.

It has helped me a lot.

It is difficult to tell you what you should do, this is something you have to decide on your own. The only thing I can advice (according to my own experience in the last months) is... take you time to decide, then (no matter which decission you take) do it being consequent with it and don't looking back.

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