What is more important to you salary or working conditions?

n1guy

I can't really decide what to do here. I've spent years working in factories/workshops and something has become apparent. You can either have a fairly decent wage but have horrible working conditions and what I mean by that is somewhere you are constantly badgered for overtime, somewhere the boss doss damn all but sit watching you on CCTV all day trying to find fault, somewhere you have to clock out to go to the toilet, somewhere there is no heating, the list could go on.

Then I have my current job, pay is minimum wage, this is a place where you can have a coffee with the boss at various times during the day, break times can last as long as you want, there is no overtime, we have heating, there is no problem getting time off.

Its a totally different way of life if I'm honest but the main problem the pay is dire and no chance of an increase, I am their 3 years now and guys there 30 years are on less than £1 per hour more than me.

I can't decide if I would be better looking something else because of the wages or staying put, as I say I've had about 6 different factory jobs apart from this all have been a nightmare. I've not had a day sick once in my 3 years working there, I used to have a sick day sometimes every month in other jobs which says a lot.

Pallavi_Chawla

Sometimes working condition is more important than salary. Because if we work in not a right place then our health got affected and we need to spend money on health.

n1guy

Pallavi_Chawla wrote: »

Sometimes working condition is more important than salary. Because if we work in not a right place then our health got affected and we need to spend money on health.

That is also my thinking, I've worked in previous jobs where I've had anxiety,panic attacks and depression due to the stress.

Concerned75

This is just the private sectors design on how people should work.
Most of what you say is because most places don't have anyone to negotiate your working environment/pay as it is in the private sector.
Also, it depends on the demand of the business and profit accumulated. If you don't have to worry about these things, you can have luxury environments and good rates of pay.
A lot of people are going down the self employed route, to take out all these situations altogether.

Concerned75

Most of what you say is because most places don't have anyone to negotiate your working environment/pay as it is in the private sector.

That should have said public sector.

xapprenticex

Always work conditions above pay. Better off having a better life over being the richest man in the graveyard.

DCFC79

Work conditions above pay.

Whatever you decide you have to be happy with it.

theoretica

I would say work conditions. But this depends on pay being above some minimum so that money stress isn't greater than the work stress would be.

Deep_In_Debt

Work conditions above pay. I've spent years earning quite well in the past, but a lot of stress which took a toll on both my mental and physical health.

Gave all that up 3 years ago, earn enough to live on, have my health and life back and I'm fairly happy in my job.

cavework

Then I have my current job, pay is minimum wage, this is a place where you can have a coffee with the boss at various times during the day, break times can last as long as you want, there is no overtime, we have heating, there is no problem getting time off.
Work out your hourly pay ..then stick with the job you now have ;-) xx

London50

Through all of my working life {I am long time retired} I had many jobs and looked at it this way, if I looked forward to Monday coming around then that was the job for me no matter how high or low the pay was or the chances to "get on" in the company.
The first sign that I was getting stressed or I looked forward to the weekend on a Tuesday/Wednesday then it was time to move on. OK my generation was "lucky" as there was always another job to go to without any problems unlike the situation these days but even if I was just on the min wage and had to scrape week to week I would still choose that over great wage/conditions but hated/dreaded every hour.