How much is working close to home worth to you?
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Currently a contract engineer (of sorts) and working on a long term contract 30 miles and 45-60 mins from home, traffic depending.
A perm job has come up 8 miles and 10-15 mins from home, at a growing company with excellent opportunities for progression, private health care, fairly decent pension contribution etc.
The money is the biggest issue, its quite a bit less and even if I get the progression promised (if I'm as good as CV suggests then team leader and +£3k after 3 month probation) it's still a fair bit less money, in no small part due to tax etc.
Overtime will be available if wanted so I could be at work for most of the hour I'd usually be travelling home, wake up later in the morning, maybe go to the gym etc.
I'm in about as steady a contract as you can get at the moment, ongoing, respected member of the team, good money, plenty of hours on offer if I can be bothered. The drive does annoy me a little, I just can't help but imagine how I could use the time better.
So my question to you is, how important is working near to home to you, and in money terms, not just the fuel, how much is your time worth? Just interested to hear others points of view
A perm job has come up 8 miles and 10-15 mins from home, at a growing company with excellent opportunities for progression, private health care, fairly decent pension contribution etc.
The money is the biggest issue, its quite a bit less and even if I get the progression promised (if I'm as good as CV suggests then team leader and +£3k after 3 month probation) it's still a fair bit less money, in no small part due to tax etc.
Overtime will be available if wanted so I could be at work for most of the hour I'd usually be travelling home, wake up later in the morning, maybe go to the gym etc.
I'm in about as steady a contract as you can get at the moment, ongoing, respected member of the team, good money, plenty of hours on offer if I can be bothered. The drive does annoy me a little, I just can't help but imagine how I could use the time better.
So my question to you is, how important is working near to home to you, and in money terms, not just the fuel, how much is your time worth? Just interested to hear others points of view
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