GREAT DOUBTS!
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- OBBTKN
Hi everyone!
Time for lifetime (so far...) decissions:
I´ve got 2 work offers:
A. Actual offer: Creative Director, small studio but much freedom. M to Th; 8 to 17:00. Fridays: 8 to 13:00.
1600 €/month x 15 payments.
Possibility of external jobs: 6000/8000 €/year more.B. New offer: Senior Designer. Great studio-company. Bright Future-perspectives. Less freedom. 1 hour more all the days.
1350 €/month. x 14 payments. + Extra hours, but fisically no possiblity of external jobs (no time).
All the money is after taxes.
Personal situation: 35 years old, married with 2 kiddies. Little bank debts and in confort.
Tomorrow i´ll get another offer from A.
Surely, I´m going with A, more life quality, more money, more freedom and confort, and now i can get a better offer again.
Am i an idiot coz i dont change to B (a "mega-powerfull-brilliant" agency).
Any Suggestions??
TA.
- Nairn0
#a sounds healthier and who knows, with you at the helm, maybe you can increase the "Bright Future-perspectives"?
Personally, I'd rather be in a smaller team with a better position and bigger say, even if that does mean working on less than stellar clients.
I enjoyed my times in agencies, but.. meh.
- _salisae_0
when you say 'bright future, perspectives' what do you mean exactly?
- AndyRoss0
I think he means "window office."
lol
- OBBTKN0
when you say 'bright future, perspectives' what do you mean exactly?
_salisae_
(May 30 07, 17:17)I say those "you´re going to work for the greatest clients in the area, now and ever" the boss of B offered me. Is a company with great growing and big contacts here in spa.
- _salisae_0
it's seems more a matter of being self-disciplined while working job A. pushing yourself as a creative director and directing the company's client roster toward a brighter future for all.
or is that too much for them to take on?
if you're not looking to build your book then i grant you permission to rest on your laurels.
that is a tough decision though. i know how it can get when you don't feel motivated by your work.
- OBBTKN0
The thing is simplified like this:
Great REAL possibilities vs. sirens´s call.
Or i´m lossing something?
(I´ve been in a Big company in past for 5 years, and i know how this things works...)
I´m affraid of this way of life.
- Nairn0
.."and big contacts here in spa."
*splutters
In Spain?!
Some Basque you are!
I'm going over there next week for a wedding - looking forward to a few days wandering incoherently around Bilbao (not in a British lager-lout fashion, I hasten to add!)
- OBBTKN0
wellcome Nairn!!
And we´re now in "ETA to toros y tapas" transition time here in the cold north...
Read the news ;))
- OBBTKN0
too much time thinking on my future...
Anybody got any good porn links?? (i want the blood go low from my brain to my balls now ;)))
- Nairn0
ha, i know it's all a front - you guys are just biding your time 'til the Guardia Civil leave...
- OBBTKN0
time will say...
I think we can´t be civilised for more than a decade.
We´ll see it on 2011 - the basque empire returns!
just kidding.
enjoy your visit to our "little paradise" and don´t forget to sending photos about
- Nairn0
You must be kidding - the Basque region's the most civilised part of Spain I've been to!
Thanks man, I'll post pics upon my return...
...assuming my camera doesn't have a massive smudge on the lens, like it did last time I went.
- Mal0
A.
- OBBTKN0
smudge?? easy if you pass the time on redneck-raves here man...
do a big gig and enjoy for me!
I´m going back to sleep
- OBBTKN0
i´ll post tomorrow how the things are gone...
if this is helpfull for the kiddos here on NT.
(life-education lesson 1)
; )
- lvl_130
sounds to me like you already made your descision.
with 2 little ones it sounds like the right one if i understand you correctly :)
good luck.
- OBBTKN0
you´re right, level...
this is not time for getting mad all my family with my career.
thanks all!
- rafalski0
What do you mean by "1600 €/month x 15 payments."? Is it 12 months +3 extra paychecks?
I went for 4 days/week in-house contracting a year ago, never regreted it for a second. One free day a week means 2 extra months a year for travel/ freelance/ whatever.
Time is life, isn't it?
- OBBTKN0
yeah rafa... 12 months + 3 extra paychecks.
And yes too... time is life.
I´m going A, and try to live a bit... i´m going to pass the summer touching my balls, and recharging my batteries for a relaunch on my career here.
- rafalski0
What are the living costs like in your region? I guess food is relatively cheap, as it is in the rest of Spain, but what about property/rental? Can you buy a decent apartment below €150000?
And then, is the money you've been offered considered good?
We'd been repeating here that €12000/year (minus taxes) was a regular junior salary in bcn - is it true in el País Vasco?