A serious question
Despite all of this recession nonsense, I've been offered two jobs.

Do I:

Take the one that's near to me, pays well but is only a temporary contract with a view to becoming permanent within a rapidly expanding company after christmas?

Or, do I take a lower paid job that's much further away, meaning I'd have to spend loads on travel every month, but is actually a decent job with better prospects within a prestigious Architectural firm?

I'm looking for affirmation that going for the first job, where the short-term money is at is the right thing to do, here
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:14, 22 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I wouldn't take a job further away for less money.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:16, Reply)

Cheers
that's what I was looking for
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:17, Reply)

I wouldn't take a job that required lots of travelling
unless it was for lots more money
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:21, Reply)

It depends
I'd be tempted to go for the 2nd depending on:

1) How much travelling
2) How much travel costs are
3) What the wage difference is

Going for the 1st job might seem like the thing to do but there is always the risk that it won't become permanent.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:23, Reply)

Only about twenty minutes by train
£130 per month
About six grand per annum
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 14:10, Reply)

6K PA is a fair difference
What does the other job pay? If its affordable I'd still take the permanent over the temporary.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 14:55, Reply)

The first job
will keep you on a temporary contract for as long as they possibly can becuase after christmas they won't be rapidly expanding, they will be going into receivership and as a temp, you won't get any redundancy.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:30, Reply)

^This
Also at the first job there's a fat lazy woman, who'll snipe at you constantly and take the credit for all your hard work. You won't be able to do anything about it, because she's letting the MD stick his barely-functioning cocktail sausage inside her sweaty cavern.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:39, Reply)

^That
And she'll bully you so much that you won't want to go to work EVER and your life will be miserable, you'll end up quitting and then signing on.

Due to the current economic climate you won't be able to find a new job and the misery caused by being bullied will escalate into depression. This will become worse and lead to an ever-growing alcohol problem.

Due to the amount of alcohol you drink you willy won't work, your hygiene will suffer and the mrs will leave you. You will then become even more depressed and look for alternatives to alcohol to ease your pain. You may become hooked on heroin eventually pawning all you own as you search for one more hit.

By now you will b nothing but a shell of your former self, you future prospects are as bleak as the winter sun, you may be lucky and find shelter in a hostel but other than that your quality of life would be poor. Illness becomes the norm, you may even contract HIV or some other bloodborne virus as a result of sharing needles with your new found 'friends'. There is nothing for you now except the comforting embrace of Death.

It's a shame Bert; we loved you, we tried to guide you, we tried to help but it was all in vain. All we have now are the memories of who you once were.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:54, Reply)

This is what I'm worried about
there's no guarantee that I'll have a job next year if I go for that one, and the prospects at the already established company are a huge bonus
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 14:09, Reply)

Don't take any of the jobs.
Come and live with me as a paid sex slave.

I have a lovely warm cellar and there's a park opposite where I can take you for a walk at night.
( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 12:50, Reply)

this
sounds like the best option Bert.

Go for it
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 13:20, Reply)

Excuse me
I think she needs to hold open interviews or risk violating employment law. Form an orderly queue, chaps.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 13:23, Reply)

I'm sorry but it's kind of a specialized field you know.
Not everyone can cope with the daily grind that this job entails.
( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 13:38, Reply)

Hmmm....
It's tempting, what are the working hours, and do I get paid holiday?
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 14:07, Reply)

You'll be on call 24 hours and no paid holidays.
But you will get all my money if I die unless I die before the cats which means they get all my money.
( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 14:30, Reply)

hur hur hur
grind
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 14:30, Reply)

Well I'm glad somebody got it.

( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 14:41, Reply)

The second one.
You need to start looking to the future, you aren't as young as you once were you know. Getting on and that. Funny how everyone else is too well-mannered to mention it.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 25 Sep 2009, 15:03, Reply)

Go with the one that supplies the best pies?

( @RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Fri 25 Sep 2009, 20:31, Reply)

another vote for option two
In this economy, go with the option that gives you some assurance of being gainfully employed on a permanent basis. there's a reason the first place isn't hiring permanently. And frankly, if the ``rapidly-expaning'' place is willing to hire you on a contract basis now, they should be even more willing to hire you after you've worked at the ``prestigious'' place for a few years. In the interim, you'll also be able to see whether or not their claim of rapid expansion is accurate or, more likely, utter marketing bollocks.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 23:49, Reply)

option three
1. buy guns

2. get a friend (difficult i know)

3. whilst sporting long black flappy coats stride into (either place of employment - it makes no matter, in the dark they are all cunts)

4. absolutely positively kill every last motherfucker in the room

5. await book deal

simples
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sat 26 Sep 2009, 0:24, Reply)