Son's dilemma

pjcox2005

New job everytime, you work a long time in life so you have to enjoy it.

Son should go for the interview and see how it goes, if offered then potential to increase the salary.

However, even without an increase £15k means salary after tax of over £1,000 per month. Even in London you can rent for less than £500 per month, so will have money for food and bills etc.

Yes it would be a tighter way of live but if it helps position your son in his key industry then why would you not. Aim for promotion and that salary will start rising.

jackieblack

I agree with all of the above (except Underpressure)

Better to be in a job he'd enjoy, even if it means starting on a lower salary, than in a job he hates.

ka7e

Thanks to everyone for their input. I've shown him this thread and he is going to the interview! I wanted him to know it wasn't just his Mum whinging about missed opportuntities!

bristol_pilot

Glamorous jobs like working on magazines, media, racing cars etc are often poorly paid or unpaid at entry level. Some organisations actually expect people to pay to work there! This reflects the huge number of applicants for these jobs. If there are 'prospects' though, that is the way to go. I don't see any future in being a housing benefits advisor, I find it quite disgraceful that such a job exists at all (and it probably won't much longer, as the new cuts dig in - is this a council job by any chance?!).

welshmoneylover

Dream job deffo over stressful job.

Workplace stress is a killer and its very very demoralising.

Ask him to look at himself in his current job but in 20 years time, would he still be unhappy?

If he took the less paid dream job but in 20 years time he could be earning more and a lot happier!

I'd go for it.

ka7e

bristol_pilot wrote: »

I don't see any future in being a housing benefits advisor, I find it quite disgraceful that such a job exists at all (and it probably won't much longer, as the new cuts dig in - is this a council job by any chance?!).

Yes, a council job. He processes claims and also is part of a team that is first contact for new claims and queries. Lots of face-to-face and phone contact with claimants, which he enjoys (usually!) but understaffing and sheer volume of work is stressful. His department have been told Housing Benefit will be replaced with a "super benefit" eventually.

freeoffers

welshmoneylover wrote: »

Ask him to look at himself in his current job but in 20 years time... would he still be unhappy?

If he took the less paid dream job but in 20 years time he could be earning more and a lot happier!

I'd go for it.

Thats the key. He has another 40 years of work ahead of him. Long term thinking dictates that its far more beneficial to be in a job you love. 1) You're more likely to be better at it and 2) you're more likely to progress give you'll be more enthusiastic.

I'm jealous, i applied for magazine jobs, epsn, sky sports the lot. i work for a footy paper and i love it but it isnt well paid. Good luck to him.

ceridwen

Difficult choice.

The one thought I havent spotted raised so far though is - how much would your son resent being paid an unskilled wage for a skilled job? - particularly in view of the fact that he already earns a more "skilled" level salary.

Of course theres also the fact that £15k probably wont be enough for him to live on anyway - not with rent to pay. He needs to check out the rent levels in the area he is considering moving to for the job - but I expect he would only be able to rent a bedsit or a share in a shared house for that. In other words - the salary is too low to live on if so.

Edinburghlass_2

Definitely follow the dream, you spend too many hours per day in your job not to be happy doing it.

zzzLazyDaisy

He should definitely go for the interview. What has he got to lose? At the very least he will gain interview experience. He doesn't have to make a decision unless/until he is actually offered the job (though for what it's worth, I'd go for the dream job, and look at it as the first step on the ladder... he has a long working life ahead of him...)