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In healthcare as a manager. I work 32 hours at the office but 1 day remotely. Making 52,000 yearly with crappy medical benefits. But have 28 days PTO. They have matching 401k. ($2500max ) Should I leave that for working 40 hours in office for 65,000 plus $700 quarterly bonuses? Crappy benefits here too! They have no matching 401k. 10 days PTO.

I’m confused due to the PTO! My husband makes enough for both of us and he told me to stay where I am since I’ve been there 23 years. I just know I am not going to get a huge raise anytime soon and they are just are so bad when it comes to raises. This other job does yearly raises!

Should I be using my personal car for customer meetings with no car allowance? I am a junior account manager. I get no work phone and paid .95cents / km for travelling to customers.

Read the background if you care, if not read the question section.

Background: 24m; BS in biological sciences, worked 3 years in hospitals and fell out of love with healthcare toward the end. Really loved numbers though. Got a job in a lab at my states environmental department (worked ~7 months), got a promotion to working on permits and doing audits (worked ~1 year), recently got another promotion making 55k as a contract manager and doing project management (worked ~8 months).

Question: what kind of MBA should I specialize in to get to a livable salary (~120-150k). 55k isn’t enough to support a family, and I recently had my first kid. I need to get my shit together. I don’t know if I should continue down contract management those salaries look to be around 100k or go into business analytics. Should I just become an actuary? any advise from people who have walked this path before and found success would be great. I’d specialize in healthcare management but I’m not finding jobs worth a damn (I may also not be looking up good search terms to find the right jobs).

My title pretty much covers it. I'm going to try to keep this short and sweet because I've been pacing back and forth thinking about this for the past few hours and have yet to eat lol

I've been with my team for about 5 years starting fresh out of college. I've had a lot of opportunities, and have really grown thanks to these people. I feel like there is a mutual appreciation between my team and I. Leaving feels almost like I'd be selling out.
Because I tend to jump into extracurricular roles within the company, my name was thrown out somewhere for a position that just opened up starting from 75k - 90k.

Right now, I do a lot more web/print/motion graphic/and even double as a production assistant from time to time. It IS corporate so not every job is ''fun''. There might be a fun corporate Tshirt that needs to be designed or something.
In this new role, I'd be mostly working in powerpoint creating presentations for the sales team, meeting with them and working with a lot of templates.

I spoke with the hiring manager to get more information and they told me that they really want me on the team and that the position is mine if I apply even though there are two potential prospects that they've already got.

I came in making barely 40k 5 years ago..
I feel like making a lateral financial decision is a smart move, but the work I'd be doing is so much more mundane. I'm struggling to make a confident call..
Should I choose to be more bored and have significant financial stability or less bored, with more fun sprinkled in while trying to strategically pay bills without pulling from my dwindling savings account lol

I didn't keep this short at all..

Thanks for reading. I appreciate you guys!

Edit/ Update: I dropped the bomb on my manager this evening. They are asking to talk about it, mentioning that there is more to it than just money. They fear that I don't know all of the dynamics involved in the decision.

Some background: I have experience in food service, customer service, mechanics, and Some construction (potholing). Went to a trade for Diesel Technology, tried college for a semester and was too expensive lol. Was a Diesel Mechanic Apprentice for two years, quit a few weeks ago. Felt my body hurting (back pain from lifting and weird positions, stress as well), drama in the workplace, hated some of the work, etc. About to start in HVAC with a friend of mine as an apprentice, but I don’t feel too excited about it anymore and feel unsure.

My main lookout is to be treated well by a company (pay, benefits, PTO, scheduling), but knowing the kind of work I want to do is difficult too. I know I’m young and can change fields easily but it feels like I’m losing time and being harsh on myself for it. Any suggestions or advice on how you figured it out, or found something that clicked with you?

I currently manage ecommerce platforms for my company as one of my duties, but I realized I am not knowledgeable enough about certain aspects of being an ecommerce manager (I do branding and marketing alongside it, as it is a small startup at the moment, and am very appreciative of the growth opportunities), and as the company is starting to grow, I wish to grow and improve my skillset as well.

I am very comfortable using the platforms themself (Amazon, Shopify, Shopee, etc.) but there are areas I struggle with within ecom, i.e. sales forecasting, optimizing PPC campaigns, and inventory planning (sales forecasting needing the most attention currently). Think any job listing requirements for ecommerce manager - what would be the best resources to learn from to be the perfect fit for such a role?

If anyone has any resources, tips on where to learn from, or courses they would recommend to improve in these areas, thank you!

As someone with little tech experience, what would be a good job I could do online at my leisure for say, 10-20 hours a week from my computer at home?

Throwaway account just because. Ok people of Reddit, help me out. I've never had a dream career. I played sports my entire life & was a D1 collegiate athlete on scholarship, getting a stipend to fund my housing, daily expenses, etc. I got my BA in marketing and will graduate with my MBA in a few months. This was my first semester not playing a sport as l'm out of eligibility. I have a few internships under my belt, but obviously no actual job experience because being a college athlete takes up a lot of time. I've been job hunting online for marketing jobs but in all honestly, I don't know what I want to do career wise. I run a social media account with a good amount of followers and make $1-2k per month from commission/partnerships/etc. The problem is that my dad is extremely overbearing when it comes to what I should do with my life, always has been. He thinks I need to have a life plan/career path lined up already and that it's crazy that I don't know what I want to do with my life at 23. He also continuously tells me what jobs I should be applying for/what I need to do/send this not that/talk to so and so/etc. I would be fine working a few small jobs here and there to pay rent while I figure out what I want to do, but for some reason he thinks that's a terrible idea. I just don't want to be miserable where I work. I'm frustrated and lost. Am I crazy? Any advice helps.

TLDR: 23 & 1 don't know what I want to do with my life career wise & my dad thinks I need to have a plan

When the perfect opportunity arrives but I’m not ready?

There is a really good opportunity that has come up which really aligns with my values and what I am currently interested in. It would be extremely valuable experience for me, I think it would give me a better idea of what I want to do with my life but I don’t want to apply because I feel like I’m not ready for a number of reasons.

The biggest reason is I am struggling health wise and right now I have the opportunity to build that back up whilst spending my time trying out any new things. This is possible because I’m not currently working right now and getting a full time job would mean that I won’t be able to focus on myself like I planned to for the next few months. I quit my last job not too long ago because it was not for me and I really wanted some time out/career break (fyi this new job role would be a complete career change)

Some other reasons include:

• don’t think I’d be a strong candidate right now so I want to spend more time to be more prepared for a role like this

Am I stupid not to apply? I know logically it makes sense to apply and I don’t think I’d regret applying but I also feel like I’d be making the right choice not to apply. I would love to apply for this new job in a couple of months time when I’m mentally prepared and feel like I have myself the opportunity to do what I wanted whilst I am not in full time work. One thing to note is that this role is for a new start up and I realise that now would be the best time to apply if I was ready

Would love some advice! I am stuck on what to do

I have been working for a prestigious company for two months now. The company has everything a modern IT specialist needs: a technology stack that is in demand in the labour market, remote work, the latest equipment, a friendly team, clearly defined work processes, and career development opportunities. But with each passing day, I was getting more and more depressed. I have a heavy workload, constant stress from adapting to remote work, constant fear (a feeling of complete isolation), and a premonition that I am about to be fired. It's also important that I was on the verge of total burnout from my previous job (I even lost my period!), mostly because I was combining university studies and work.

All these factors prompted me to call my old job and ask for my job back. My old employees were happy, but said I was making a big mistake. In general, all my friends were shouting that I was making a big mistake. The old company had lower salaries, low-level technology, strange performance evaluation metrics, heavy workload, management did not value people, the work was purely office-based with the possibility of remote work sometimes. I still enjoyed it, I had a lot of friends.

At the new job, they asked me to think about it until tomorrow because they liked me (but I have a feeling that their attitude towards me is already bad), and at the old job, everyone is already waiting. But am I doing the right thing? I'm afraid that depression will drag me down because of the remote work, but is it worth working for a worse company because of this? My brain screams “no” in my head, but I feel “yes” in my heart.

Hi Everyone!

I have been heavily looking for a job in UX research, design, product design, architect. I haven't had much luck since December. I would really like for some help on landing a job in my field. I've done everything I have been suggested to do and still nothing. I've started to look for job search strategist to help me, but they are so pricey and I can't afford to pay for them on a teacher salary. I currently work as a afterschool teacher to hold me over till I get a post grad job and I graduate next month so I am definitely getting anxious about everything.

I would love to get any kind of help!

I am a 31-year-old female, and I did my undergrad in civil engineering. I couldn't get a job after graduation, so I took any job I could to pay the bills and ended up working for a translation company. I planned to get back to finding an engineering job, but then COVID happened. I felt that I had stayed away from the engineering field for too long, and my chances of getting the job I wanted were slim, so I started my master's in structural engineering. I'm set to finish my master's next year, but I just feel so defeated and like I am too old and starting this career path much later than others.

I have a lot of passion for this field, and having worked in a different field with a good salary but zero job satisfaction gives me the push to want a career that I enjoy. I guess I am just looking for words of encouragement or some hard advice on this situation I find myself in. I'm not Korean, but I did my undergrad in Korea and ended up staying here after. However, I do want to move somewhere else because the work/life balance here is not great.

A big thank in avance to everyone who read this long help request.

I am in my late 20's and i've been stuck for a few years now trying to find what I want to do in my life.

I have already graduated and got my computer science degree. A year and a half before graduating I knew that I didn't wanted to get a job related to that (software and web development mainly) even though there were things I enjoyed (like web design) but at the same time I started to hate them. At the beggining I was really good at it until I wasn't (I guess I didn't put enough effort to it) and I felt really frustrated, I'm guessing that's probably the reason that made me hate every part of it.

Since then i've been looking for a career that I actually get to love or enjoy enough. Many have gotten my attention. First it was graphic design, then translator and interpreter, then photography. Currently I'm interested in data analytics and nutrition, and now considering web design or front-end development again, thinking maybe when I was studying I didn't like it because I just didn't give my best.

I have taken a lot of tests to find a career that suits my personality, insterest, etc. Most of those results say I am IRC or RIC or ICR on the holland code, or suggest me careers with one always present or at the top: computer science (or related). This has been really frustraiting for me because I've been looking for another one! But this tests suggest the one I already studied. Another kind of test says I am an INFJ (I know this is a personality test but still). Many people don't believe in this, I just have to say it's been pretty accurate, and the careers suggested (Nutrition, one that I'm interested in) for someone with this personality are completely different from the ones in the other tests.

I've been thinking (OVERTHINKING) about this a lot, I'm lost, I'm stressed, frustrated and I feel anxious. Right now I'm struggling to decide between Nutrition or any other career such as data analytics or web development.

I love languages but I think they could remain just as a hobby, just like photography.

I really like graphic design, I'm constantly using my computer and the time flies when designing any personal thing or for others. The truth is that not many people value this job. Maybe I could do something with it, I just don't think I would study this in a university. Maybe I could mix my interest for graphic design with the suggestions of all of this tests, front-end development, but I'm not sure given the past. This could only be possible if i get a job remotely because to get a job where I have to be present would mean to move to another city, the nearest to where I am from, and living there is a nightmare.

About Nutrition I really like to know about food, what it contains, how good it does to us or how could it harm our health. I like that I could provide the knowledge to help others. Listening to other people ideas about nutrition, eating, etc., I realize that we know almost nothing about it and how important it is. One way or another I would like to learn about Nutrition, I just don't know if I would like to make it a career. Choosing this would mean graduating in my early 30's.

I want a meaningful profession, something that is important, valued, it is important to me to feel that I'm doing something that matters, a job that gives the chance to have a life and not to feel tied up or suffocated. But how can I know which one will I actually feel the most satisfaction with? How can I choose just one having so many interests?

I appreciate any honest advice.

What are some careeers where you can work from anywhere in the world with a wifi connection and you can be self employed?

So I've been working in this company for more than a year, and since my day one, I never liked the vibes coming from one of the members of my team.

Being new, I always told myself that I should get used to some stuff, and maybe it's to be expected in the culture of my team. This person didn't cross any red line or anything, but let's just say that I avoid asking him questions as much as I can, avoid the topics he is working on and don't want to be involved in stuff together with him.

Now after one year, I can say that it's not just me. He is indeed unapproachable by the other coworkers in the company and he had a few arguments in different ones because of his way of communication. Let's say he is not really at fault every time and he has a point in some cases, but he doesn't give his feedback professionally and sticks to bad sarcasm and harsh critic on public channels through messages.

Once, there was an interview to recruit a senior for the team.. once he noticed that this senior is not up for the task and lacks knowledge, he just left the meeting... no feedback, no nothing...

It's a shame because our team is shrinking and the atmosphere used to be good, but with his quarrels and with the 'diplomatic' ones leaving the team, I feel some stress knowing that I will be stuck with someone with such behavior. Other people in the company stopped using the public channel for questions and support and reaching out to me privately as well as the other polite persons in the team, because they are afraid they will get discouraging answers.

I'm also more comfortable with asking other people rather than him.

I wonder how I should go about that.

I talked to a potential employer and the role I’d be looking at has a 25-30K pay cut. They seemed to like me and I like them. The organization is literally ideal for me and aligned with me in so many ways. It would come with a significant pay cut and not much room to wiggle up my salary at all. And potentially no salary raises in the future because of how it’s structured unless everyone else in the company also gets an increase. I felt so at ease with the team and it really is calling me in terms of my moral alignment, passions, and more.

Opinions on whether I should consider leaving my higher paying job for the ideal role and organization? My partner and I would like to eventually save for a house and we live in a VHCOL area.

It feels like going for higher paying jobs are soul sucking and I need to give up my humanity and morals to do so. Any advice for someone like me who is split between my passion and making significantly more money? I’m very unhappy in my current role. I’ve worked long and hard to get to my current salary but it’s pretty depressing day to day where I’m at.

For clarity I have a professional career of over 10 years, so I'm not looking for my first job out of college. I've got a buddy who is saying that he'd disqualify a candidate for asking about benefits out of the concept that they "don't want to work" but in one's 30s I feel like you need to set a baseline of expectations.

I don't see the point of continuing to interview 3-5 times before this stuff is addressed, or everyone's time is dramatically wasted.

Am I tanking my chances at finding a new job by asking this? I'm not 21 years old anymore, 5 days off in a year isn't going to cut it for me...

I'm straight-up asking this sub because I don't trust glassdoor and websites alike. I tend to think they emphasize negative feedbacks more than the positive ones, skewing the overall opinion about a company.

So, for those who work at Microsoft, (preferrably in Europe), how does it look like ? I have a couple of interviews scheduled ahead and want to know what I'm getting into.

So I’m currently working at a casino and a couple weeks ago I was sure that I was probably not gonna make the cut and get laid off but present time I’m actually performing quite well and have a bit more confidence in my ability, however I accepted another job that involves trimming cannabis about two weeks ago because I was sure that I wasn’t gonna make it here at the casino, I accepted it as a backup in case I got laid off because in this economy I don’t want to be jobless again. Now I’m stuck between what to do because while the casino pays 18.50 hourly and the cannabis job pays 16 hourly, the cannabis job does pay by the pound which means I can make more over at the cannabis job. Yes they’re both dead end jobs and I don’t plan on staying at either long term no matter which I choose, I’m going to college while working so I’m just kinda torn between which one to choose. Also if I choose the cannabis job I won’t be able to do my two weeks because my initial start date is this week. Which means I’ll look bad to the eyes of the casino, maybe it wasn’t the best plan but I didn’t know what else to do because I was afraid of having no job at all.

I am more of an introverted inventive/creative personality, but I have a physics BS and about 210 college credits from prerequisites in other areas (mostly sciences, chemistry, biology). I applied to PA school but uncertain if I will get in, or its even the best fit.

What are other paths I can look to long term? I generally work quite hard and really dive into things. Ive done a variety of things up to this point, but honestly I just wasn't familiar with the career world at all. If I could do it again I would probably try for dental/medical school/PhD. Unfortunately college profs/career advising wasn't available, and honestly I just hit every landmine out there.

Now at middle aged I am out of time, and need a long term viable and a stable pathway, with true advancement potential. Ahhhh HELP!

Willing to consider all options (and money helps). Any advice is appreciated.

Thank you.

Say I work at a job and just have one other coworker and my manager. Also, it's basically a proven fact that my team would need 3 additional people in order to complete all tasks in a nice and efficient manner. Then, the manager I have seems to be doing nothing about this.

My best guess is maybe the team doesn't have the budget to hire new people. Is that most likely correct?

What’s up everybody. I’m 26F trying to work my way up the ladder. Struggling with an impending decision and looking for any / all perspectives.

Currently have been with a company for over 2 years that is struggling financially. I have been working to get promoted for the past few months but answers regarding my status to move up have been pretty vague. I have a great team, amazing boss who advocates for me, but the higher ups are not giving me answers when I’ve been already working way outside of my job description/scope with NO compensation.

I’ve been interviewing for a company that would give me around a 40% salary increase, but it would be a lateral move (title wouldn’t be changing, and it seems like an entry level position with some tasks that are a bit of a step backwards professionally). The money is enticing and I think I could really make a name for myself at this company that clearly can afford to value me and help me grow.

My current boss wants me to stick out the next month or so to see if a promotion comes through (it would have to by end of June). But the answer could still be no and I’d be missing out on this opportunity for a huge pay increase and likely a lifestyle change for the better.

I’ve been working hard at my current company, love the work that I do, and would really like to leave with a promotion. It’s been a long time coming.

Would you stay and wait out to hear about the potential promotion? Or make a lateral move career wise for more money? I’ve been in the work force for 5 years, I feel I deserve a promotion but also need to accept when a company doesn’t value me.

Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

TLDR: Had a terrible time as a software engineer, got let go, and now am having a good time working in a bakery. Would it be a mistake to fully switch fields? What should I be considering?

I graduated college a couple years ago (Computer Science degree) and have been working as a software engineer until recently. To be frank, it sucked. My self-worth was completely shot, I felt stupid all the time, and I was incredibly anxious every day. ([Trigger warning suicidal thoughts] basically since I knew I'd have to work for decades more, I started thinking about how if I was going to feel so terrible every workday I might as well not continue on.) I was bounced around between a lot of different managers and got conflicting feedback about how to get better at my job, so it's probably not surprising that I wasn't the strongest engineer on the team. I ended up getting laid off a few months ago.

While looking for a new full time job, I got a part time job at a bakery/cafe. This was partially for financial reasons and partly because when I was a kid I dreamed of having a bakery, and wanted to see if it was something I still want to do. I serve customers a couple days a week and bake one day a week. The customer interactions are okay - there are nice people as well as scum. But baking is amazing. In general I'm having way more fun at work now, and I like knowing that people actually appreciate what I'm doing, even if it's gone in a couple minutes after they eat/drink it. I could see myself being happy switching to full time at this cafe or getting a job where I'd be able to bake all the time.

The problem is I don't know if I'd be screwing my future self over by not earning software money. I imagine if I was a full time baker I wouldn't be able to retire (or own a home, etc). I don't really know what a future looks like for someone in the food industry. No one in my family has done this kind of work, and the people at the cafe are around my age or still in college (the exception being the owner who's pretty well off and seems to open local businesses as a hobby). I know a lot of people work their whole career in food, but would they think I'm an idiot for giving up on a software career? Any suggestions for how to weigh my options? Am I overlooking anything?

Thank you!

I had 3 remote interviews with a company I really like over the past couple weeks. My last one was today. The first was with the internal recruiter, then the hiring manager, and the final with the team I’d potentially be working with. I haven’t sent any thank you emails so far, but I’m wondering if I should and if so do I send it individually to each one who interviewed with me? Like one email to the hiring manager, another to the team and another to the recruiter? Or did I miss my chance and should have sent them right after each one?

My last interview today with the team told me the recruiter would be the one to follow up with me on next steps/if I get the job or not. I’m also wondering if it’s appropriate to email her and ask for a timeline or something? I’m kind of new at this corporate stuff so I appreciate all the advice.

What would you do if you had a decent size trust (200k), a lot in regular savings and a partner who has a large trust (6m) and makes really good money (250k entry) and will make over 1m/ yr. They don’t care if you contribute financially.

Would you spend your life trying to make money so you can have even more? Volunteer? Part time job? Full time job? More school? Nothing? If you had all the possible tools and support you needed, what would you do?

I need some advice. I have about 1 year to go to finish my degree from the university of phoenix but I have heard that they have a bad reputation. They are regionally accredited but I am worried that I will be unable to find a job in my field due to it may be viewed by employers. It was a rush decision I didn’t realize it had such a bad reputation when I started. I have been learning the skills necessary for a data analyst role and a have been making a portfolio. However, I fear that all my efforts will be in vain due to the college I will get my degree from. Any advice would be much appreciated? Also, I have a high GPA and would like to get my masters elsewhere but am worried about that as well.

I feel like I am seeing MBAS become more common, would having a MSMIM be more beneficial to stand out? For context I work for a transportation company and having a degree is not super common here, but this incase I want to move elsewhere in the future

Anyone have a little old mum who wants to keep busy. Less concern about the salary, more about the fact that’s an old lady. She used to be a secretary in the olden days and has decent computer skills.

On the radar are lollipop lady, lunch lady at school,in home old age care, babysitting but she’s abit too African and too strict for these new kids. Anyone have any ideas.

She’s a very good chef. I don’t want her to work too hard and I do pay her a stipend and she has no bills, buttttt- my mum wants to make her own pin money to send back home to her sons who I don’t support financially.

So, bring your ideas.