Be Careful What You Wish For?
In case you haven't noticed, I've been doing a lot of bitching lately about how my current living situation isn't quite doing it for me. Well, this afternoon, I came out of a hearing to find that I had a voicemail from my boss saying he had "something kind of big" to talk to me about before I went home for the day.
As it turned out, he's thinking about relocating me. Apparently I'm actually pretty good at what I'm doing, and he wants me to cover a broader area of the state (at no point did me mention anything about upping my salary, so I hesitate to use the word "promotion").
But here's the problem - the 3 or 4 cities he mentioned off the top of his head as we talked are infinitely more crappy than Wilmington. They are all places I occassionally have to visit for particular cases, and they are all places I very much look forward to leaving at the end of the day.
So what to do?
On a scale of 1 to 10, my social life currently sits at about 2.5. If I move to any of those cities, it could very well dip into the negative...but I would be "advancing my career" or something like that. If I say no and stay here - where things aren't great, but not necessarily bad either - I'm sure that would make me "not a team player" to the partners, and the next time a big promotion opens up they'll likely look to someone else.
And my boss wants an answer tomorrow.
Sleep may not happen tonight.
As it turned out, he's thinking about relocating me. Apparently I'm actually pretty good at what I'm doing, and he wants me to cover a broader area of the state (at no point did me mention anything about upping my salary, so I hesitate to use the word "promotion").
But here's the problem - the 3 or 4 cities he mentioned off the top of his head as we talked are infinitely more crappy than Wilmington. They are all places I occassionally have to visit for particular cases, and they are all places I very much look forward to leaving at the end of the day.
So what to do?
On a scale of 1 to 10, my social life currently sits at about 2.5. If I move to any of those cities, it could very well dip into the negative...but I would be "advancing my career" or something like that. If I say no and stay here - where things aren't great, but not necessarily bad either - I'm sure that would make me "not a team player" to the partners, and the next time a big promotion opens up they'll likely look to someone else.
And my boss wants an answer tomorrow.
Sleep may not happen tonight.
posted by jonphiwil @ 10:07 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:23 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Ish, well you probably already answered him, but I hope you said something along these lines:
I would love the extra responsibility, but is there any chance of me moving to a larger city? I'm a young guy who needs a place with more people his age, not less. How can we work this out?
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