nun
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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I'm in the lucky position of having a job choice at 52, just 3 years away from the possibility of ER with health benefits and a comfortable income.
My current job is well paid and has fantastic benefits, 5 weeks holiday, inexpensive health insurance that I can continue after 55 until Medicare starts. But it isn't my dream job and some days I find myself longing for ER. the work is reasonably interesting, but doesn't stretch me and can be slow sometimes.
I have the opportunity of another job working on some amazing technology that will be very exciting. But it would need me to relocate from MA to MD. I own a house that I like a lot and I'd have to rent it out and live in a condo. I'd have to leave good friends behind and I'd miss all the cultural things I can easily do in MA; there just aren't as many of those in MD. The MD job salary is $10k more, but the benefits are far less, 3 weeks time off that includes sick AND vacation, health insurance is worse and won't be available after 55.
My dilemma is whether to push myself professionally and intellectually and deal with the hassle of a major relocation and being an absentee landlord or accept that my career has peaked and stay in my current easy job knowing that I can coast into ER and be assured of inexpensive health insurance in 3 years time.
My current job is well paid and has fantastic benefits, 5 weeks holiday, inexpensive health insurance that I can continue after 55 until Medicare starts. But it isn't my dream job and some days I find myself longing for ER. the work is reasonably interesting, but doesn't stretch me and can be slow sometimes.
I have the opportunity of another job working on some amazing technology that will be very exciting. But it would need me to relocate from MA to MD. I own a house that I like a lot and I'd have to rent it out and live in a condo. I'd have to leave good friends behind and I'd miss all the cultural things I can easily do in MA; there just aren't as many of those in MD. The MD job salary is $10k more, but the benefits are far less, 3 weeks time off that includes sick AND vacation, health insurance is worse and won't be available after 55.
My dilemma is whether to push myself professionally and intellectually and deal with the hassle of a major relocation and being an absentee landlord or accept that my career has peaked and stay in my current easy job knowing that I can coast into ER and be assured of inexpensive health insurance in 3 years time.