I NEED ADVICE!
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- speed_d
ok, so I move from NYC to Vermont to take a warehouse supervisor job...it pays well for the area, 48k, but I just got offered a job in the design field in NYC but it pays less money, but requires less time commitment... what should I do, I am at a complete loss
do I stay where I get paid more with a lower cost of living
or take my chances again in the big city?
has anyone ever been faced with a similiar situation?
PLEASE HELP
- Peter0
do the designjob from the warehouse
- speed_d0
did I mention my wife is still in NYC... she is finishing up her masters and will relocate if need be in June...
- k0na_an0k0
do what you love and the money will follow.
great advice from my grandfather to me when i was in a similar situation. 4 years later i'm a creative director.
- speed_d0
Thanks Kona....good advice
I need to get over my money obsession...
- tkmeister0
if you are into snowboarding, then move to VT for the winter. job isn't everything to your life.
but if this design job is really good design job you want to do, then take that job.
as a fellow new yorker, i have been through the same pass. i don't know how i actually survived, but i did make it.
- enjine0
i don't think there's much of a question here...
>> NYC
- liquid0
bro,
If you can afford to live in the city with the design job... then do it.... be with your wife and do what you love...
ok put it this way.... make money and live in a town thats boring with no wife to come home to doing a job that doesnt require using the area of your brain that most enjoys work.......OR..... be in the biggest playground on the planet for art and come home to your wife who would much rather you be happy and be with her then send her checks...
dude.....move back to nyc....this isn't a question...call the people today and say yes and move....
- liquid0
not downing the snowboarding comment....but his wife lives in NYC.... thats a no brainer right there....
- de4k0
k0na_an0k could you run through your decision in more detail...?
just interested.
- rabattski0
"...be in the biggest playground on the planet for art..."
mwaaaaahahahahhahahahahhahaaaaha...
yeah right.
- k0na_an0k0
k0na_an0k could you run through your decision in more detail...?
just interested.
de4k
(Nov 30 04, 06:57)
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yeah sure. 4 years ago i was let go from a company for much the same reason. no work... but in reality the management just plain sucked. they bid 12k for a site with absolutely no functionality and for a non for profit organization after i told them to bid 3k. unreal.anyways. they let me go december 1st, 2 months after i had just bought a townhome. i was devastated. after almost going mad and not knowing what to do a gf of mine offered me a job working with her and her dad at his company. i would be a 'manager' for his plastics factory making a wage that would def. keep my head out of water, her dad offered me 60k. which was kinda dumb cause i was def. not management material then. my grandfather pulled me aside and we had a heart to heart. i told him i was scared that if i took this job i'd get stuck in a rut and never come back to design. or, i could scape by for the next few months looking for a design job. he said to me 'do what you love and the money will follow.' he told me that he said the same thing to my uncle matt when he was my age. after he quit his high paying job that he hated, went back to school and barely made ends meet for the next 3 years, he now live very well off with his new career.
so. i didn't take the job. had to sell my $1500 mountian bike for $700 on ebay, my bedroom set, my stereo and had to work weekends at a gym to make ends meet. but eventually they did.
not that i'm making 6 figures, but 4 years later i finally found a job that i'm secure at, and have moved up the corporate ladder enough where my next step will hopefully be at a large ad adgency in the city. i've had to take a lot of chances and sacrifice more than you know, but looking back it was all worth it.
i still have yet to buy a replacement bike but maybe that will be this year.
the end.
doug
- k0na_an0k0
WOW... de4k... your illustrations are outstanding!
you have GOT to show them bigger! they are too good not to!
- rabattski0
your grandfather rocks k0na!
- robotron3k0
y, kona is right (nice story, btw), take the job, go back to nyc with your wifa, eat top ramen, build character, you will do better in the long run.
- k0na_an0k0
your grandfather rocks k0na!
rabattski
(Nov 30 04, 07:47)
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along with my father they are two of the greatest and wisest men i have ever known, and i am truely blessed that they are my father and grandfather.
- rabattski0
i don't know how old your grandfather is k0na but for someone from that generation it's quite rare to hear such statements. i assume he's from an era where people worked their whole life at just one company. where making money was top priority. you know what i mean? say i'm curious, what did your grandfather do professionally?
- MLVR0
what else did your granpa say?
- de4k0
WOW... de4k... your illustrations are outstanding!
you have GOT to show them bigger! they are too good not to!
k0na_an0k
(Nov 30 04, 07:46)thanks k0na_an0k!
your story is inspiring stuff.
I'm on the cusp of making a few sacrifices myself and hearing that is encourageable.
I am the same age though(born in the70s thread) and fear I'm leaving it a little late, but screw it.
- de4k0
(march 75)
- Icequeen0
brilliant story k0na! Great advice.