westonwhitetail
5 year old buck +
Just curious what others would do. I am a civil engineer and our field is swamped right now. Every company is looking for people. I am getting recruited to another firm by an old co-worker. His company would offer slightly better salary but due to better healthcare plans, it would increase my family's monthly take home by about $1000. This is about 20% increase in take home pay. This is also assuming I contribute similar total amounts to retirement (between myself and the companies benefits). It's a big increase that could mean some upgrades for my family and quicker savings for the next land purchase or other investments.
I can't help but be interested with the pay increase but there are great people and resources at my existing company, there is also a lot of potential movement up the ladder. It's hard to say what the environment may be at the other place, but from what I hear it isn't bad.
The last factor I am concerned about is the economy. I'd hate to be the new guy when/if things turn to shit. Both places do a lot of municipal work though, so it would likely be less affected than private work.
I'm just throwing this out there as there are a lot of successful people here with more career experience than myself. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestion's?
I can't help but be interested with the pay increase but there are great people and resources at my existing company, there is also a lot of potential movement up the ladder. It's hard to say what the environment may be at the other place, but from what I hear it isn't bad.
The last factor I am concerned about is the economy. I'd hate to be the new guy when/if things turn to shit. Both places do a lot of municipal work though, so it would likely be less affected than private work.
I'm just throwing this out there as there are a lot of successful people here with more career experience than myself. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestion's?