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Carol H Tucker
Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Today is the 6th day of the 34th week, the 26th day of the 8th month, the 239th day of 2016 [with only 120 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
- Forgive Your Foe Friday
- Make Your Own Luck Day
- Musical Yoga Day
- National Cherry Popsicle Day
- National Dog Day
- National WebMistress Day
- National Toilet Paper Day
- World Daffodil Day
- Women's Equality Day -- in 1920 the 19th amendment to US Constitution, giving women the right to vote, took effect.
On this day in 1071 the Seljuq Turks defeated the Byzantine army at Manzikert. In 1498 Michelangelo was commissioned to carve the Pietà. In 1748 the first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, was founded in Philadelphia. In 1768, Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour. In 1778 the first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia was completed. In 1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France. In 1791 John Fitch was granted a United States patent for the steamboat. 1821 the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was officially opened. 1994: a man was given the world's first battery-operated heart at the Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, England.
Whenever I get contacted by a headhunter, I have to stop and think about what I want to do.
I reflect on what keeps me in my current position. Career-wise? This place is not good for me – I do not have a title or the staff, and as “the” support person, I find myself in the role of office manager and administrative assistant far too often. That does tighten my jaws now and then as I am also the lone female of our little six-person office and I cannot totally acquit my male co-workers of sexism even as I worry about my own hypersensitivity. Job security? Working for a small business always carries a high risk of failure – we are indeed totally dependent on the existence of our President [affectionately known as bossman in these pages], on his heath and performance, and the ability of our owners [the five Credit Unions who are equity owners] to stay solvent as well as the standard business risks of the regional market vicissitudes and the fluctuating economy. And I will admit that I enjoyed managing work flows VS doing the tasks. Money-wise? As I have commented far too often, unemployed and worried about the job prospects hereabouts, I took a 20% cut in pay to come here back in 2009. While I my salary has increased, and there have been bonuses, I am still well behind what I should be making at this point. When I hear of a job that offers me a 45% increase, I pay attention! It would certainly beef up the 401K contributions and the Social Security benefit calculation [which is done on the last three years before you retire] and pay off my bills.
On the other hand? Currently I only commute for an hour, hour and a half each day. I only work about eight hours a day and bossman is very easy-going with leave as long as the work gets done. I don’t deal with any corporate politics and I like the people that I work with. And because we very seldom see any foot traffic in our office, dress is very casual [just no jeans]. And larger organizations downsize all the time [last one in, first one out, neh?] and they too run the risk of merger/acquisition – so I don’t see any beneficial increase in job security.
The biggest factor for me in this decision is time: It will be daily four hours commuting [unless I go through the expense of moving to Northern VA] and would mean either having to get a new car or paying other transportation costs, And in a corporate environment, the working day at the VP level is close to a ten hour day, which means not only would I be rolling out at the crack of dawn, I wouldn’t be getting home until around 9PM each evening. I added up the hours spent with the commute and figured out that it would entail of 56% increase of time allocated to work. Assuming the PTO benefits are similar, at the proposed position income? I would actually be making $2.80 an hour less than I do now, although by allocating more hours to work, I can indeed make more money.
So it comes down to this: am I willing to change my lifestyle so work takes up a 56% more of my waking hours [or go through the pain and expense of relocation, then it would only be a 22% increase] so that I can make more money on the off chance I will be able to retire in 10 years?
Nope. Now if the House of the Mouse offered me the same deal, I might snap it up, but thank you very much, I’ll stay put.
What is more vital to you, time or money?
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