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+1. I agree 100%. More stress (for 10% increase) will have negative effect on your personal life and health in the long run. That's an experience of decades, not just a comment.
If you have been offered a promotion and don't take it, you could effectively be telling your current employer you lack ambition.
Why not take the job and see how it goes. If it goes well and suits you, you could ask for a raise. If not you could still look for another job elsewhere. Plus having been promoted in your current job, shows any future employers you have the ability to move within the company.
Yeah, this. Your card will be marked if you don't play it right.
Talk to HR, make flattered/grateful noises, and using your saddest eyes explain why you don't believe you and the new position are a good match and that you'd sooner wait for a (realistic) promotion opportunity in another (specified) area (or areas) of the company.
When I look at positions I always look at what they can be leveraged into. I can suck it up for a year or two if I can turn the position into something better.
If I was going to work a job I didnt like, Id make sure I was being paid as much as possible
Hey, you might not get a chance to move forward again, but Im sure you can always move backwards.
Good feedback in this thread already.
However, it may also depend on the $ amount. A 10% increase on a $100k/yr salary may be worth the extra stress. However, a 10% increase on a $35k/yr salary may not quite justify the added stress and responsibility.
Also, is this a lateral type "job change" within the organization, or is this more of a promotion? You need to consider the long term impact of changing positions. Maybe this new position would get you experience and give you a better chance at a bigger promotion later on?
However, it may also depend on the $ amount. A 10% increase on a $100k/yr salary may be worth the extra stress. However, a 10% increase on a $35k/yr salary may not quite justify the added stress and responsibility.
Also, is this a lateral type "job change" within the organization, or is this more of a promotion? You need to consider the long term impact of changing positions. Maybe this new position would get you experience and give you a better chance at a bigger promotion later on?
if you dont take it youll be blacklisted
id take it, if it works out great and if it doesnt you can either leave with a promotion on your resume or you could probably demote yourself back to your old position which you dont even really like, so theres not much to lose.
id take it, if it works out great and if it doesnt you can either leave with a promotion on your resume or you could probably demote yourself back to your old position which you dont even really like, so theres not much to lose.
Heh, I take the opposite view. A 10% increase in a modest salary can easily double your discretionary spend; moving from earning $10k a month to $11k a month could go more or less unnoticed unless you're mortgaged and alimonied up to the eyeballs.
That's a good point. I did the math, and with a 10% increase on a $35k/yr salary, after knocking off 30% for taxes, you would end up bringing home about another $200/mo. Which, for someone on that type of income, could make a big difference. My car payment is $280/mo, so an extra $200/mo would make a big difference!