Easier job or higher salary?

amandacat

To give more detail I work for a web based company, we only have one office which is 200 miles away so like most staff I work from home. I am a middle manager and do travel long distances and stay away in hotels but only a couple times a month. The rest of the time I'm at home and get left to get on with things as my team perform and I've been with the company for ten years so have built up an element of trust.

The new role is a senior manager role. I'd be required to attend our office one day a week and be directly accountable to the board who aren't the nicest people to deal with. This will mean leaving home at 5am one day a week and getting home at 8pm as that is the expectation for senior managers e.g to travel in your own time to be at the office for 9-5. The role will also involve dealing with high level customer complaints and I will be accountable for the performance of a larger region.

On the flipside if I don't accept the promotion I suspect their second choice may make my current role more difficult as he is a micromanager who I consider to be a bit verbally aggressive.

My salary would increase from 36k to 49k.

ThemeOne

The way you describe the role doesn't make it sound like much fun to me, but perhaps you'd really thrive in it? Only you can say.

If it doesn't have so much appeal to you, and bearing in mind your comment about the second choice candidate, it does sound a bit as if you might lose both ways.

Sofitos

It is never too late to try smth more chalenging and complicated. If you don't try you never know how it have a more accountability job with much more salary. Even if you realise it is not yours cup of tea, you always have a chance to quit. In return you will have experience and perfect CV.

p.s I read your another post at this forum, it seems you are very ambitios person. I bet you try a new role)