Easier job or higher salary?

amandacat

Just looking for others insights really please. Would you rather have

-an easy job that pays enough to cover a comfortable lifestyle and gives you a bit extra to save each month but the job doesn't really challenge you

Or

-a more stressful job with a much higher salary but more accountability and less 'dossing' but that provides a new challenge

I'm currently in scenario one but have been offered a promotion to scenario two but just can't decide!

pupgrum

amandacat wrote: »

Just looking for others insights really please. Would you rather have

-an easy job that pays enough to cover a comfortable lifestyle and gives you a bit extra to save each month but the job doesn't really challenge you

Or

-a more stressful job with a much higher salary but more accountability and less 'dossing' but that provides a new challenge

I'm currently in scenario one but have been offered a promotion to scenario two but just can't decide!

First lifestyle can lead to a healthy relationship or even marriage and family.

Second lifestyle, any existing relationship may end and you are not going to get married.

Nicki

I like challenge and get bored easily, so option 2 for me every time. I'm happily married with kids by the way and have been for nearly 3 decades, and my husband also has a job in category 2, so divorce, singledom and childlessness is not inevitable

FBaby

You have to decide where your threshold is. I have pushed mine ever since my first job, but I have now reached the point where any extra money will not be worth the extra stress and demand that will come with it.

I've reached that point. I am in a line for another promotion, and my instinct is to want to take on the challenge yet again as I do get mentally bored after a while and thrive on challenges, but deep inside, I know I've reached my limit. It's not so much the extra stress and demand, althought that's a significant factor but the fact that the job will become almost totally corporate and I would have to give up almost all technical responsibilities.

motorguy

amandacat wrote: »

Just looking for others insights really please. Would you rather have

-an easy job that pays enough to cover a comfortable lifestyle and gives you a bit extra to save each month but the job doesn't really challenge you

Or

-a more stressful job with a much higher salary but more accountability and less 'dossing' but that provides a new challenge

I'm currently in scenario one but have been offered a promotion to scenario two but just can't decide!

You've your mind made up already ' comfortable lifestyle' as a descriptor in the first, 'stressful' in the second.

If it's truly a stressful job then I'd avoid it, but likewise might it just be a bit of added pressure until you get a grip of the new role?

If you're happy not to challenge yourself and move forward then stay where you are.

Acc72

motorguy wrote: »

You've your mind made up already ' comfortable lifestyle' as a descriptor in the first, 'stressful' in the second.

I agree with this.
You know what you want to do, you are just hoping that others will agree with you (or you will possibly disagree with anybody who doesn't!).

Paully232000

amandacat wrote: »

Just looking for others insights really please. Would you rather have

-an easy job that pays enough to cover a comfortable lifestyle and gives you a bit extra to save each month but the job doesn't really challenge you

Or

-a more stressful job with a much higher salary but more accountability and less 'dossing' but that provides a new challenge

I'm currently in scenario one but have been offered a promotion to scenario two but just can't decide!

What is the difference in pay, either in % terms if you dont want to say the £? that would be my deciding factor as if say it was £1000/year more (or 5% more) I would say the easier job, but if you are taking of £10Ks (higher %) more then would be a much harder decision.

coffeehound

It's a completely individual decision as some people thrive on stress while others crumple. As above the money can make you put up with working outside your comfort zone for a time, but eventually the pigeons come home to roost with mental and physical health being affected.

martinthebandit

Neither, I would go for a job I enjoy and adjust my expenditure to match (well hopefully be less than) my income.

amandacat

Acc72 wrote: »

I agree with this.
You know what you want to do, you are just hoping that others will agree with you (or you will possibly disagree with anybody who doesn't!).

This really isn't a true assumption. I've not made up my mind. My current job is super easy, I get paid enough to live more than comfortably but at the same time I'm getting lazy and bored most days. The challenge of the new job does attract me as does the money. It's 13k a year extra so that minus deductions for tax etc will go nicely into my savings account each month. But what I can't decide is do I want the lack of challenge in favour of an easy life or the thrill of a new role with more money, where the novelty of the extra cash may soon wear off and I'll be wishing I never took it!

amandacat

martinthebandit wrote: »

Neither, I would go for a job I enjoy and adjust my expenditure to match (well hopefully be less than) my income.

I do enjoy my current job and my current salary is far greater than my expenditure.