What would you do?
What would you do?
(OP)
The contract that I am working on finishes soon and I am now looking for the next role. I live in an area where unemployment is high and good jobs are few and far between. For the last 6 years I have been working in office based roles up to a level of senior manager within an SME. Here's the rub. I recently went for an interview for an ops manager and ended up being offered the position for maintenance manager ( a new position within this growing organisation). To me it feels like a bit of a climb down and I am worried about the consequencial damage it could do to the CV. I am also very conscious that it took me 10 months to find my current job and I am not prepared to spent that long unemployed again and this job is better than nothing.
I have also just finished my BENG which I did primarily to get of the shop floor. OK I'm going to have a second interview so that I can hear the full scope. Do I really want to go back to wearing overalls? What would you do?
I have also just finished my BENG which I did primarily to get of the shop floor. OK I'm going to have a second interview so that I can hear the full scope. Do I really want to go back to wearing overalls? What would you do?





RE: What would you do?
For every person that will tell you they turned down a job only for something better to come along a week later another will tell you they turned down a job waiting for something better only to find out that the job they turned down was the best they were offered, use your gut instinct would be my advice.
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Ciao.
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Perhaps you can move up within the organization, or possibly do a parttime mba or masters. There are things you could do that along with a job so that you still progress.
imo
keep in mind, it's easier for us to say something than for you to do it.
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Life is what happens while we're making other plans.
Wally
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Is the Maintenance manager a different role to Engineering manager? I'm guessing this is probably manufacturing industry?
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One day my ship will come in.
But with my luck, I'll be at the airport!
RE: What would you do?
Life is what happens while we're making other plans.
Wally
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you mention that the maintenance manager position is a new one ... that puts my antennae up. why has the company decidied on this change ?
i wouldn't have thought at the maintenance manager would put his overalls on ... he'd have other people for that ! and maintenance of what ... a building, a site, a fleet of planes?
you say you've only just completed your BENG degree. i think this is a very creditable thing to do whilst working. maybe recruiters are looking at you as a "junior" engineer rather than as a "senior" manager.
as the other posters say, and as you know, it's a choice (a cr@pshoot?) and only in the future will you be able to say "that didn't work out so bad". A job sounds better than none; don't know that i'd keep actively looking for jobs soon after taking on a new one, but maybe continuing a passive search is ok.
good luck with your decision !
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Maybe your current contract employer will decide they don't want to lose you and they'll offer a full time position.
Maybe another offer will pop up and you can use the current offer to negotiate a better salary with the the second offer (or vice versa).
Maybe you'll love the new job when you get there.
Maybe you'll hate it.
Endless possibilities; you won't know if you don't try. The choice is yours.
Good luck.
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