was in that situation a few months ago!
Be Prepared, you know what you have, and you have to have some cash reserve, to maintain the bumps of the worst case scenario to come "if" and thats a small If! I had job for four years same kind of deal and money, the company was unappreciative and the pay was stagnating of a dollar a year, and the work load was too heavy and the co-help was not a team effort or concerned anything would effect us working longer hours, or after hours and weeknights and weekends, the pay was about 20 an hour, everything was for the convienance of the dept heads, and not the better of the hotels and casino's, I worked for five dollars an hour more instantly, then found out that I was back in the same boat as before , finding a home to hang my hat again! Financial stability, thats hard to find, what company you can deal with? co-workers and good money?, I went from an ex alcoholic boss, that blew money like no tommorow and blamed me for his lazinessmistakes and unproffesionalism and bad habits to the customers, and then laid me off, then I went to a bigger company that was in another city full of hot shot techs that were just bump-n-go techs the majority, and the good ones were counted on one hand, But the new guy gets to prove himself all over again, because youre the new guy! and I was doing more call backs from the bump-n-go crew, and getting complaints like youre the fifth guy thats been here, you think you can fix it right this time, and it was my first time getting there! lmao! I was let go there! lmao, moral of the story , grass is always greener, but when opportunity presents itself, jump when it feels right cause they will can you just as you will them, and when you dont feel right with the same company anymore, you can pick up the vibes in certain situations that are tell-tale signs of how the boss acts towards you, they become distant with you, and dont really listen to you when you talk to them, unless it is soley in their favor of helping them, and they cant remember you working a 60 hr work week for them and this isnt billable hours either! now i am mgr-hvacr, and had two other mediocre offers to run myself to death for two others to restart businesses that were run into the ground, on poor business ideas of taking advantage of their customers and techs... do the math...
[Edited by coldspot on 02-23-2005 at 01:17 AM]