Possible job move -- asking for advice.

[Tom Petty]

Let the powers that be at your current paper know that the old paper called and offered you a job with more money (and that it wasn't something that you had applied for). Then, if you turn it down, you've shown your loyalty to the place.

What might happen is management might pony up a couple of bucks to keep you if they think you are serious about going back.

Of course, you could get screwed by the current paper and then be forced to go to what could be a bad situation at the old one.

Good luck

SID - i think it's too early in his tenure to be making such a move. if a newbie tried squeezing me, i'd show them the door. DJ already agreed to his pay. make a move for pay after a year, not a month.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The sad thing is, Heartland has the money, they're just not putting money back into the paper to support it.

And I've not really entertained the thought much, but it is intriguing... But, my thoughts are to entirely stay at a daily. I was lucky enough to get a break there, considering I have no journalism degree, but have two degrees in business, and am only 24 years old, and pretty much taught my own self how to paginate on my own.

The daily I work at now is also a p.m., so it's pretty much the same shift that I would work at the weekly, if I'd go back, but I'm not.

All my friends who are not into journalism tell me to go for the job at the weekly, cause the money, and less workload. But I can't do that in my mind, cause I know, the product I'll produce will never, ever be as good to quality in pages I can produce at the daily.

My quality of work and job I currently have outweighs the money I could make at the weekly, and the hell I'd have to go through there to.

 

[spaceman]

Don't do it.

 

[tapintoamerica]

To quote R.E.M., "Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year."

 

[Just_An_SID]

Let the powers that be at your current paper know that the old paper called and offered you a job with more money (and that it wasn't something that you had applied for). Then, if you turn it down, you've shown your loyalty to the place.

What might happen is management might pony up a couple of bucks to keep you if they think you are serious about going back.

Of course, you could get screwed by the current paper and then be forced to go to what could be a bad situation at the old one.

Good luck

SID - i think it's too early in his tenure to be making such a move. if a newbie tried squeezing me, i'd show them the door. DJ already agreed to his pay. make a move for pay after a year, not a month.

The nice thing is that since he didn't apply for the job at the old paper, he really hasn't done anything to **** off the current employer. By letting them know that somebody approached him with an offer (for more money), he can do no worse than benefit from some good will just by turning down the offer and staying put. I wouldn't squeeze the current employer because you are right, you might be forced to leave, but there is some benefit to be made from this (even if it is just your current employer knowing that you are in demand and turned down more money to stay.)

If the current employer is a good one, then you'll see something change soon after turning the job down. It might be something simple like a bad assignment goes to somebody but you are you get an assignment that somebody else would have gotten.

 

[Write-brained]

$2,000 more a year is a very very small jump for changing jobs. I won't move for less than a $4,000 increase unless the paper I'm at is uninhabitable.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

$2000 per year is less than $40 extra each week. Not really worth it.

 

[Tom Petty]

Let the powers that be at your current paper know that the old paper called and offered you a job with more money (and that it wasn't something that you had applied for). Then, if you turn it down, you've shown your loyalty to the place.

What might happen is management might pony up a couple of bucks to keep you if they think you are serious about going back.

Of course, you could get screwed by the current paper and then be forced to go to what could be a bad situation at the old one.

Good luck

SID - i think it's too early in his tenure to be making such a move. if a newbie tried squeezing me, i'd show them the door. DJ already agreed to his pay. make a move for pay after a year, not a month.

The nice thing is that since he didn't apply for the job at the old paper, he really hasn't done anything to **** off the current employer. By letting them know that somebody approached him with an offer (for more money), he can do no worse than benefit from some good will just by turning down the offer and staying put. I wouldn't squeeze the current employer because you are right, you might be forced to leave, but there is some benefit to be made from this (even if it is just your current employer knowing that you are in demand and turned down more money to stay.)

If the current employer is a good one, then you'll see something change soon after turning the job down. It might be something simple like a bad assignment goes to somebody but you are you get an assignment that somebody else would have gotten.

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