When is interview #2? I'm rooting for you!
It's tonight after I get off work!
Re: vacation, I'm not really sure how that works. Everywhere I've worked has VERY set vacation policies. Like where I am now, it's 2 weeks, then 3 weeks after 10 years. Everybody knows how long you've been there, and somebody has to "cover" you while you're gone, so everyone would know if you're taking more vacation than what "they" get.
This new place told me it's 1 week the first & second year, 2 weeks the third through ninth year, and 3 weeks after 10 years. Which
kind of bites, because next year would be my 10th year at this place, so I'd be sacrificing a lot of vacation time, but...meh. My husband and I aren't really vacation people. It's just nice to sit at home and relax for a week.
I have mentally adjusted my lowest amount I will take though...45k instead of 48. I really DO want to work there, and the wholesale environment seems so much better suited to my personality than retail. The interviewer did a really good job of selling
me on working there. However, it's salary, whereas I'm hourly. If I look at my actual gross pay from last year, it's over $41k a year, due to some overtime. I can't justify changing jobs
and losing 2 weeks vacation a year for any less than 4k. I'll be sad if I have to walk on this one, but I'm not going to take a pay cut just because the grass looks greener at the new company.
CONS:
* New job would be about 2 miles further from my house, so it would be a bigger stretch to bike there. And a bit more gas if I drive.
* I would be giving up 11 weeks of vacation over the next 10 years, if I stayed there that long.
* Health insurance is about $60/year more expensive, plus I would have to do COBRA for 3 months if I changed to this new job. That's about $1200.
* Salaried, and I was told I'd be working about 45 hours a week. I only work about 41.5 now.
PROS:
* I would get to roll over my shitty 401k into an IRA and buy the funds I WANT! (This is a big pro, IMO, but not specific to this particular new job).
* Working office hours, no weekends (as opposed to every other Saturday and some rare Sundays, as I do now).
* I would be dealing with only manufacturers and retailers, NOT customers. (Also a big, big, big pro. Our clientele consists of lots of entitled rich people, crazy brides, and for some odd reason, the recently bereaved. I do not deal well with emotional people or irrationality.)
* Maybe a pro...I'd have access to wholesale pricing on appliances & furniture. It will be another 4 years or so before we're able to buy a house, but this might be of use. More so than jewelry, anyway.
* I was told there would be annual performance reviews, and a year never goes by without a pay increase. (I've averaged 3 years between raises here, and one I only got because I asked for it).
* I really liked the woman who would be my supervisor. (But I really like my supervisor now, too).
UNKNOWNS:
There's always the chance I could hate all my co-workers? Chance you take at any new job, though.
I don't know how the 401k plans compare. We have crummy fund choices, but get a 4% match at my current job.
I do not know if they offer an HSA, or if so, whether they contribute. I have one now, but employer no longer contributes.