Should I Change Job?

[zabbas_dad]

Evening Mooners,

I need some help. I have been in the same job for around 15 years and have pretty much enjoyed most of my time there. I am fairly high in the chain as it is an SME business and report directly to the MD.

Relationship with them is very good.

However I have been approached about applying for a job that is a little further away (additional 30 miles) but not much in it.

The big difference is the company is a big business, multi million pound turnover with offices all over the world.

New prospect advantages - higher salary (+16k), opportunity to progress even further

New prospect disadvantages - I am new, easy to drop should things not work (this is my biggest concern, not because I don’t back myself, I just know how the world works). I have mortgage, kids and main bread winner by some distance

Current job advantages - safe, secure job with a decent salary

Current job disadvantages - progression is minimal, am I a little bored and lacking motivation because I can do it with my eyes closed

Whilst my current job does come with a decent salary, I’m not sure how good it is as I have recently had some social conversations and people in jobs that ‘appear to me’ to be much easier, less responsibility etc are now coming quite closer to what I earn.

It’s not all about the money however it is important. I have just never worked for a big business before and it’s scary the thought of change. But I fully understand that you can’t and won’t progress until you do things that are a little scary and out of your comfort zone.

What do you think?

 

[Blue Mist]

One life.
Do it.

You may be sat in a pub, in your usual corner drinking half a mild thinking if only.
That could be in 30 years but it could also be in 2.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

You don't have a decision to make until you've applied and been offered the job even if you are being headhunted.

Go for it. The interview process might confirm that you are right to leave/or stay where you are.

 

[Scottyboi]

You don't have a decision to make until you've applied and been offered the job even if you are being headhunted.

Go for it. The interview process might confirm that you are right to leave/or stay where you are.

Good practice too incase you're abit rusty.

 

[uwerosler28]

You wouldn't believe the money multi million businesses throw at good performance, car allowance, pension contributions, bonuses ect. If its a secure role make the move or at least make the move towards doing so , there may be a counter offer from your current employer.

 

[1961_vintage]

Yes.

 

[Kompany Car]

Depends on if you have the stomach for it. Small companies, you're working for people who you can talk to, agree what's best for the business and move forwards.

Large multinationals, the only thing that counts above a certain level is the faceless shareholders, plus you have to be happy to play the political games, form allegiances and generally not give a fuck about anything other than margin and turnover.
Ive done well out of working for a very large company in a senior role, but I do sometimes feel like I've sold my soul to the devil.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

By Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Depends on if you have the stomach for it. Small companies, you're working for people who you can talk to, agree what's best for the business and move forwards.

Large multinationals, the only thing that counts above a certain level is the faceless shareholders, plus you have to be happy to play the political games, form allegiances and generally not give a fuck about anything other than margin and turnover.
Ive done well out of working for a very large company in a senior role, but I do sometimes feel like I've sold my sole to the devil.

Does he insist that you wear Prada shoes? :)

 

[Eebo]

Big companies have lots of politics, and it is often hard to understand why decisions are made and to feel valued or that you have any influence. In short, it can be be hard to feel that you make any difference.