Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

Watty1

I think job interviews are worse than dating.  You have to make up your mind on something that affects your life in such a major way based on just a few mins - ok - 95 mins in this case but still.  Both of you were on bestest behaviour trying to convince another.    So difficult.

A thought:  being a big fish in a small pond, would that give you influence with the big boss regardless of site manager?

Hope the offer comes through for you, you obviously are a talented lady with great skills that you present well. Fingers crossed for you

Cheery_Daff

That sounds positive! Hopefully you at least get an offer, and then you can make your mind up about what to do about it 😊

LadyWithAPlan

Maybe journal or walk solo to think it through 
I chant to help make my decisions but whatever works for you to give you mental clarity - it’s worth taking the time out 

if there is something saying ‘no’ to you maybe ask directly about it once you get the offer 

dawnybabes

1.5 k works out at £5 ish a day - how much quicker is the commute ? - even on minimum wage you’re in profit in ‘me’ time. 

CCW007

KajiKita said:

I will sit with it and probably talk it through with a work mentor I have. It might also be a lack of faith in my own judgment after taking my current job ….

KK

I'd say you are being a little harsh on yourself - you are in a totally different position and headspace now. When taking your current role, you may have felt under pressure to find a job and were certainly still dealing with the trauma of how your previous role ended and how you were treated.

Whilst your current role is not ideal, you are not in the same position and I would suggest that your decision last time was not flawed but was necessary to give you the breathing space to find your ideal next position.

PennysIntoPounds

Do whatever feels right but don't let past people being rubbish affect your potential. At the end of the day you already don't like your job so if you don't like this one you'll at least be nearer home not liking it!

Twolabsandacat

Trust yourself KK and you will make the right choice .....  our choices are made at a point in time, with all the information we have available.  Sometimes the outcome might not be quite what we expect - like in your job now.  It doesnt mean you made a bad choice, just that more information becomes available to us so we reassess and maybe make different choices and so the cycle goes on!

Brie

KajiKita said:

But I got on well with him last night when we were both tired. But there are so many positives (better pension, much shorter commute, flexible working, far more interesting job, genuinely being needed not just being a technical skivvy, as I am at the moment). I will sit with it and probably talk it through with a work mentor I have. It might also be a lack of faith in my own judgment after taking my current job ….

KK

This is the bit I'm focusing on. Good rapport, good pension and more interesting work.  AND a shorter commute.  I took a chunky drop in salary once to change from being an minimum hour each way and £8 a day to park to being able to cycle to work in 10 minutes.  The drop in salary was about the same as the commute costs without taking in to account wear and tear on the car.  And I gained maybe 90 minutes me time.  It's amazing what a difference that can make to your life.

(but hey I'm an optimist!!!)

Definitely talk to your mentor about it.

KajiKita

Brie said:

KajiKita said:

But I got on well with him last night when we were both tired. But there are so many positives (better pension, much shorter commute, flexible working, far more interesting job, genuinely being needed not just being a technical skivvy, as I am at the moment). I will sit with it and probably talk it through with a work mentor I have. It might also be a lack of faith in my own judgment after taking my current job ….

KK

This is the bit I'm focusing on. Good rapport, good pension and more interesting work.  AND a shorter commute.  I took a chunky drop in salary once to change from being an minimum hour each way and £8 a day to park to being able to cycle to work in 10 minutes.  The drop in salary was about the same as the commute costs without taking in to account wear and tear on the car.  And I gained maybe 90 minutes me time.  It's amazing what a difference that can make to your life.

(but hey I'm an optimist!!!)

Definitely talk to your mentor about it.

I woke feeling more positive about it this morning. I think there were two sources of hesitation for me - doing HSE as well as Q again (not my favourite) and the fact that the chap who interviewed me and would be my boss is a very strong and dominant personality, as was my previous boss ….

However, I can see I won’t be doing SHE on my own and my boss to be would definitely want me to be doing Q and although he is a dominant person, he is also very self aware I.e. absolutely 180 to my previous boss! 😉

KK

KajiKita

It’s been a good day 😊

- Spoke to my friend in Japan as he messaged me yesterday saying he wanted to tell me about a new job he had landed 😊👏

- Renewed the water filter jug and gave it and the kettle filter a good scrub 👏

- Whilst the new filter was draining twice before use, I did a walkf1t workout and a bit of yoga stretching as I am feeling as stiff as a board at the moment. 

- Two loads of washing out to the line and almost dry when brought in 

- Much sitting on sofa watching V0yager doing tapestry 🪡 

- Got out in the garden for an hour or so and made good progress on tidying the courtyard pond and beds. Much green slime removed from the pond, the poor, abused-by-the-renderer-last-year, fern has been cut back and all the slop the renderer left all over the courtyard floor has been broken / chipped up and bagged up! There’s more (proper gardening) to do in this area, but that’s the hard bit done 😊 

- My car passed its MOT first time and had a full service - £390, which is okay as I had £1,000 put aside for it. I won’t move any remaining monies out of that pot but I will work out what the reduced contribution would be to get it to £1K again by this time next year. If that’s a reasonable amount of slack I will split it between savings and OPs - I will update further … 😊

- Recruiter for local job has been on. I have a call with the about to be, new UK QSHE Director on Monday evening at 6pm and I will meet the rest of the team and actually see the factory running properly on Tuesday afternoon - I have requested a half day for that 🤞

KK