Help!!

[Berkeley]

Hey guys, how is everyone? I haven't been online for a while due to a series of nighmares. I need your help.

I lost my job recently. Luckily I was offered another one quite quickly on a really low salary but excellent prospects in terms of career move. The problem is I will only have about £50 left a month after everything has gone out (that includes the costs for my horses).

I was offered another one yesterday, £10k more, not so good career prospects. But it means I will have £500 more a month, more time (and money) with horses (more money to spend in rugs!)

I just don't know what to do. Is it simply a case of more money and horses than less money and career?!

 

[4leggedfurries]

Personally i'd take the one with more money for now but continue to look for a better job. I'd rather put up with a rubbish job if it meant i could afford to keep the horses. But thats me, you've got to decide what works best for you. No help i know, sorry!

 

[beutifulwobble]

think about what makes you happy- my choice is having my horses and enjoying them. I dont wan tht estress of moving up the career ladder- i want to be good at my job have enough money to fund my house and horses and thats about it.

Hope this helps xxx

 

[thumperbos]

Having returned from a gap year at the start of the summer (pffftt what summer!

), I know only too well the state of the job market just now!
I opted to take a local job and live at home to save up more money, rather than take an arts related job which would mean moving elsewhere in the country, and which would earn me much less money. The plan being to save up a deposit for whichever area I decide to move to, and being an optimistic minded individual, hopefully the job market will turn around next year..? Who knows!

I'm a great believer in living life to the full and doing what makes you happy, even if that includes funding the most costly hobby known to man, as a life without horses would be dull as dishwater to me!!

Not that I'm trying to sway you in this important decision, but my mind would be thinking 'ok, I could be sensible and take the job with less money and better career prospects, but then I might not be able to do as much with my horses...what if I had an unexpectedly horrendous vets' bill?? Could I afford to keep them?...etc etc.' But I could be wrong!

 

[0ldmare]

Depends on how long its likely to take for the better job prospects to materialise. If its like a 3 month probation period or something like that then I would go for that one. Otherwise I would go for the better paid one and look around for something else.

Good luck whatever you decide

 

[Tickles]

Could you go back to the people who offered you the job you really want and tell them about your other offer? Explain that you're in a dilema becasue you would like to work for them for x, y, z reasons but that you aren't sure you can afford to turn down the extra money... ALL salaries are negotiable to some extent (unfortunatley I'm just not that good at negotiating!)