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@ALC so your top3 motivations to come to work are salary, yearly bonus and overtime pay? :D
Sure. I’m seeing too many layoffs (also affected by one myself) to believe in a bigger purpose for a company, unless it’s one you start yourself. And it’s not that the layoffs are necessarily justified, it’s just shit leadership lining their pockets and trying to pull in more investors by lowering payroll.

But like I said, everyone is different and has different expectations.

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@ALC so your top3 motivations to come to work are salary, yearly bonus and overtime pay? :D
Also, a lot of my motivation comes from wanting to improve life quality for people, it’s a reason I’ve stuck with pharma, but I’m not going to labor at a shit company when I can do the same thing for more money somewhere with better environment and pay.
 

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Currently sitting in a comfy bank job as team manager, ultimately meaningless work that contributes close to nothing of real value. Today got an offer for a job in law enforcement where I’d actually be required to think again, that has the potential to be meaningful. It’s a 20% step down in salary (probably closer to 30% after bank tries to keep me), 50% step down in terms of the amount of people I’d be managing, plus I’d have to step up my effort by a lot. I figured I’d sit for a year or two longer in the private sector and rest up, raise my kids to be a bit older before going back to real work, but not sure I’ll get a an offer that fits my skills as good as this one. Any advice?
So you'd think more, work a lot more and get paid less? Sounds like a good decision.
 
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Currently sitting in a comfy bank job as team manager, ultimately meaningless work that contributes close to nothing of real value. Today got an offer for a job in law enforcement where I’d actually be required to think again, that has the potential to be meaningful. It’s a 20% step down in salary (probably closer to 30% after bank tries to keep me), 50% step down in terms of the amount of people I’d be managing, plus I’d have to step up my effort by a lot. I figured I’d sit for a year or two longer in the private sector and rest up, raise my kids to be a bit older before going back to real work, but not sure I’ll get a an offer that fits my skills as good as this one. Any advice?

I got this kid at my gym, who currently gets paid 15 bucks an hour working outside in the heat, a cush 3 month assignment, doing minimal handy work, which will pays 55k after tax. He initially said yes, but when it was time to start the paperwork he told my boy he can't make it coz Virginia is too far...
 
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I got this kid at my gym, who currently gets paid 15 bucks an hour working outside in the heat, a cush 3 month assignment, doing minimal handy work, which will pays 55k after tax. He initially said yes, but when it was time to start the paperwork he told my boy he can't make it coz Virginia is too far...
Was the kid by any chance from Arkansas?
 

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Currently sitting in a comfy bank job as team manager, ultimately meaningless work that contributes close to nothing of real value. Today got an offer for a job in law enforcement where I’d actually be required to think again, that has the potential to be meaningful. It’s a 20% step down in salary (probably closer to 30% after bank tries to keep me), 50% step down in terms of the amount of people I’d be managing, plus I’d have to step up my effort by a lot. I figured I’d sit for a year or two longer in the private sector and rest up, raise my kids to be a bit older before going back to real work, but not sure I’ll get a an offer that fits my skills as good as this one. Any advice?
just thought about @ing you in the missing members bread, good to see you back

in hungary the financial sector has plenty of jobs requiring thinking and actual contribution. of course we have plenty of jobs with mostly administrative and legal tasks, but also a lot of positions that are tied to product development, project management, sme management, some banks do some startup/vc stuff via satellite companies, etc

law enforcement is usually a shitty job in hungary. low wages, low respect, only rewarding if you consider it as a mission. i'd love to do anti corruption stuff once for decent money so i kinda get what you're feeling but you have kids, it's nice to have a comfortable job for many reasons.
 
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Currently sitting in a comfy bank job as team manager, ultimately meaningless work that contributes close to nothing of real value. Today got an offer for a job in law enforcement where I’d actually be required to think again, that has the potential to be meaningful. It’s a 20% step down in salary (probably closer to 30% after bank tries to keep me), 50% step down in terms of the amount of people I’d be managing, plus I’d have to step up my effort by a lot. I figured I’d sit for a year or two longer in the private sector and rest up, raise my kids to be a bit older before going back to real work, but not sure I’ll get a an offer that fits my skills as good as this one. Any advice?
Keep the cushy job.
 

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