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This went downhill! Lockdown pushed me into becoming the Sales account manager for Transport issues, similar to what I did for the company many years ago, it was ok for a while as I was "doing it for the greater good" but after lockdown I was still doing it and still doing my Stock management job, no pay rise. Short version of the story, managed to poach a stock manager from the coldstore side of the business as they would not free me up , as time went on I started becoming more hostile and aggressive to sales people who were constantly moaning at me about transport issues, that became my life for a few years. Despite telling management I was unhappy and need a change and would leave they did nothing to help, they "tried" to calm sales down on how they treated me but it was short lived, no pay rises other than standard. As of May 2023 I moved to HRIS for the same company, managers knew not to waste time trying to keep me, I was done with everything, I was willing to take a pay cut (didn't say that) but got a good pay rise. Despite the big jump and learning curve, it's healthy stress, my motivation is there to work for my betterment and drive, I've done a couple of European trips for work, already pushed my personal boundaries. My boss is someone I've known on and off here for years, he's a quirky guy which suits my personality. This could be my final big job change
Its expensive and full of rightwing jerks! I remember reading somewhere it was rated as the most expensive place to drink in the country!
Ended up staying, fewer worries about how I'd get on, some concerns of last in first out type thing when moving, and I haven't regretted it. Saying that though no pay rise last year and in theory there is one coming soon with some more investment, but depending how that goes I may be looking into options. Work/life balance, flexibility and stress levels etc are great but want to avoid 'settling' quite yet.
Ive bitched many times about my job ... however , my MD just fronted me the money for a deposit for my first house. Blessed i feel.
Work for a shipping company mate ... https://www.scotline.co.uk/ He's alright , how much do you need? ... 13 years into the job and he rewards loyalty .
Nah, I’m only joking mate . Working for a company based so far away, even in a remote role, would be an absolute ballache! Besides, probably not a good idea to be job-hopping while I’m trying to buy property and get a Ive!
Hard to believe I started this thread in 2010 I am still in the prison service, and I spend every working day in the gym wearing shorts and trainers Currently on £38,000. Not bad for keeping fit and lifting weights i guess
Its pay rise and bonus time this month, so I'll know how worth it the last 8 months of stress and pain have been!
If you can find something you truely love, and are good at... Then self employed beats anything IMHO. Although having less responsibilities is always good too.
Donno how I haven't seen this thread until today Job: Software Engineer Wage: about £31k (recent pay adjustment of 17% because coming through an apprenticeship they screwed me over) Is it worth it: meh, pay is bang average for here tho work is fairly easy. I can seek out and improve things and myself should I feel motivated so there can be variation and opportunity. Work is for an insurance company so hardly feel I'm changing the world either way. As for the exact value to our corporate overlords we can tell how much everything costs to run but due to various reasons couldn't tell you if there are is a point to anything we push. Company has always prided itself as being "there for people in their time in need" and I guess there is some truth to that but I'm too cynical and removed to fully see, believe or buy into that. Previous team was lumped in with external contractors so tended to get a lot of really crappy work. Think along the lines of plug the hole or continuing to shovel water with both options being wrong while being asked by management to cut the lifeboats as it will save weight. Came with a load of abuse from unhappy users, never mind never seeing anyone I worked with for over 2 years as they were based in other countries and work from home meaning anyone I knew wasn't in the office anyway. Nearly walked away from development altogether at that point.
Job: IT Infrastructure Specialist (or something....) Wage: £40,700 Is it worth it: Honestly just for my work/life balance alone it is. 39 days basic leave + bank holidays and any bonus days (usually around Christmas) they send our way in addition to lots of working from home, very little stress, and very flexible hours. I've seen similar roles pay more, especially if you want to contract and travel further afield, work weekends, etc, but an increase in salary just isn't worth it right now compared to being able to be around my family/kids a lot - especially as they have some additional needs. That's way more important to me than money. If I live to see retirement almost my entire working life up to now has been paying into a civil service / public sector pension so I might be able to afford some heating then too.
Job - IT Operations Technician Salary - £35K (part-retired as well, so should be £50K) Worth it? - Working for a government department, so not really due to dire pay raises, and bureaucracy, can't wait for full retirement
Interesting to look back at this, 4 years in and im currently Job: Associate Director / Business Transformation Lead Wage: £££ +50% over the past 4 years (not that it feels like it, thanks to inflation / interest rates) Bonus: around 20%, various shares options / RSUs Satisfaction: Not sure My boss, friend and mentor is unfortunately unexpectedly very unwell, so im acting as a full blown director of business transformation and taking his scope for a 6 month period, while he has time to hopefully get better. So I went from running a product team, with another junior PO reporting into me to now having 6 product owners with their own scrum teams reporting into me. Its interesting as I spend most of my time running interferance for them, managing the PMO and senior stakeholders. Remit is Plan (Supply and interfacing to a Demand planning system), Procurement and Sourcing (buying, sourcing, business partner records) and Product Movements (Inter plant processes and trade compliance) Direct reporting structure is now 22, indirect (including consulting resources, PM's, open headcount and "IT" team members) is 65. Also have full budget and fiscal responsiblity, rather than previously just insight so thats another thing im learning. Needless to say its been a massive learning curve and I am just 6 weeks in so likely making lots of mistakes I dont know yet.
They decided to move office location which would have made the commute tricky at best. Moved to another household name but based in London - quite how that happened, i'm not sure!
