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I get to go for language testing for a design monkey job. This is good. This means my craptacular portfolio passed muster.

Still waiting to hear back about Jobs A and B. I'm not holding my breath about Job A, and Job B on the other hand – I'm glad I operate well with lack of oxygen.

Would you take more money for a good job, or less money with less promotion potential for a great job?

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More money

No questions involved for you

Depends. Is there one job that is less crazy-making and less likely to push emotional buttons that are likely to get painful?

Likely the cheaper one.

Sanity is worth a lot more than money, especially in my case, when it is tenuous. ;)

More money and good is better than less money and less promotion potential in my book. Of course, it all depends on what is making the one job GREAT while the other is merely GOOD...

It's an entirely theoretical situation. One job is as a graphic designer, work that I love to do (it's anal and creative) with fewer career options for me and starts at about $4,000 less, but caps out about $30,000 lower than being a programme administrator, which in the right field is really neat, but absolutely awful in the wrong field, but on the plus side it's very mobile as a career and can potentially be earning $60k in 5 years and $90k in 10.

It depends on what you want. I prefer working with people rather than managing them, but getting that 'right' team dynamic is hard to find. So if the job and people are good as long as my salary can cover my lifestyle, I'd take the more interesting one.

My issue is that post-university my salary level rose quickly and so did my lifestyle expectations along with it. As a result there are some types of jobs which I'd love to do, but just can't rationalize a downgrade on the pay scale to take them. Stupid money making the world go round....I think we should become Amish!

Tell me about it!

My friend basically offered me a job a couple months back where Josh is working now to run the billing department, and while I would have been all over it 2 years ago without a second thought, and it's got to be more fulfilling than my current job, I just couldn't fathom the drop in pay.

Maybe we can ask some of those dirty hippies about how to set up a commune?

Eh, it depends on how interested you are in the "upwardly-mobile" thing. Also, what do you think of the job into which you would hypothetically be promoted from job A? If that job is a lot more interesting, than maybe you sacrifice a bit of awesome in the short term in favor of the longer-term objective. Otherwise, I'd go with B: if it's a great job, hopefully it'll look great on a resume, and will be useful in getting a higher-tier job elsewhere after a while if no promotion happens internally.

Of course, if money is a Pressing Concern, this all gets a bit tilted A-wards.

I'd also consider how the benefits compare.

Job A tracks you into the executive stream within 20 years.

Job B will get you managerial at best.

The added question is which one is better longterm with regard to my chronic illness?

*nod* I take it that you're keen on doing executive, and that is indeed a hard circle to break into without some kind of lubricant.

And yes, the added question crossed my mind, but everyone should be aware of its impact: health is a fragile, fragile thing.

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