I'm going to try and make this as short and sweet as possible.
2 years ago, I left a job that I loved in the hospital lab to come do infection control. I really enjoy both jobs.
Pros of current job: very flexible, I get to work from home if snowing, kids are sick, etc. Learning a lot, can be very interesting at times. My boss is awesome.
Cons of current job: I don't have enough work to do and I get very bored sometimes. I am in an office by myself and it gets lonely. I thought I would have alot more opportunity for advancement in this field, but I am finding that in my area, hospitals outside of my company only want to hire nurses for this job. My boss will retire in 5-10 years probably, but I'm not sure I want to be in charge - she is extremely overworked.
Pros of new job: Back with the people I love and used to manage, I would love the actual job.
Cons of new job: Although I love them, the people I ued to manage are whiners and some days they drove me nuts Boss doesn't have kids, is very work centered and I feel would be less understanding of my need for work/life balance.
Salary: I would get a 6.4% raise, but would be at the top of the salary range and therefore wouldn't get yearly raises after that, just a bonus in the amount that the raise would have been (so no compounding year over year). I did the math and it would take 5 years of a 1.75% raise in my current job (that's what we got this year) to get me up to what the salary would be in the new job.
Between the raise and what I would save on gas and tolls, new job would net me an extra $250 a month.
I was hoping it would either be so much money that I couldn't say no, or so little money that I couldn't say yes... now I'm not sure what to do.
Any advice?
Need career advice
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Something else that I thought about it that the ability to work from home when I need to has saved me from needing to use a lot of PTO, and I can cash in my PTO for 90% of the value. So I have to factor that into my pay as well.
My husband and I have talked it over and decided that it isn't worth the measly 6% raise and I am just going to stay put. Thanks for all the input!