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Job dilemma
May. 22nd, 2008 11:31 amI am about to go meet a former intern from my work who now works at UGA, for lunch and to talk about prospects. There's a job posted on the UGA web site that is a lot of what I do now (all the public service stuff, no financial admin, no collection management since it is in a "library" without a collection). It was posted last Friday and Intern tells me the supervisor is planning to start reviewing applications tomorrow since they are so short-staffed.
The kicker is, the job is posted at $26K, and I am currently paid $35K. When I started 6 years ago I made $28K, and that was 2 job levels below where I am now (the posted job is at the same level I am now - as high as you can go without an MLS.)
I guess I am applying, 'cause damn I could do that work, but if she's reviewing applications tomorrow she probably won't want to hire me, because I would not be able to start until August. But $26K. Damn. The cost of living is lower here, but not that much lower. I also sort of feel I ought to work, even though there is a logic to me taking time off to finish this degree is a reasonable time, and looking for a professional job in a year. I just (unlike, it seems, a good 75% of my blood relatives) that if I am able to work I ought to. It seems strange to be able to decide not to work (even for school) at this point in my life.
Relatedly, as we started looking at houses this AM, we looked at things outside our price range (defined as what we could put 20% down for. And we liked some of them. A new house with ugly (but paintable) doors and no yard, but gorgeous bathrooms and prime location, listed at $289 but room to come down. A beautiful gracious old house in livable shape now that with some well-planned renovations could be resold for $500K in a few years (huge beautiful lot, great location) but listed at $279K and while we could stretch to but it, we wouldn't be able to put much money into it soon... But if I worked...
The kicker is, the job is posted at $26K, and I am currently paid $35K. When I started 6 years ago I made $28K, and that was 2 job levels below where I am now (the posted job is at the same level I am now - as high as you can go without an MLS.)
I guess I am applying, 'cause damn I could do that work, but if she's reviewing applications tomorrow she probably won't want to hire me, because I would not be able to start until August. But $26K. Damn. The cost of living is lower here, but not that much lower. I also sort of feel I ought to work, even though there is a logic to me taking time off to finish this degree is a reasonable time, and looking for a professional job in a year. I just (unlike, it seems, a good 75% of my blood relatives) that if I am able to work I ought to. It seems strange to be able to decide not to work (even for school) at this point in my life.
Relatedly, as we started looking at houses this AM, we looked at things outside our price range (defined as what we could put 20% down for. And we liked some of them. A new house with ugly (but paintable) doors and no yard, but gorgeous bathrooms and prime location, listed at $289 but room to come down. A beautiful gracious old house in livable shape now that with some well-planned renovations could be resold for $500K in a few years (huge beautiful lot, great location) but listed at $279K and while we could stretch to but it, we wouldn't be able to put much money into it soon... But if I worked...