Money or Happiness?

tonyshowoff

@tonyshowoff said:

you can still retire in your 50s if you play it right (I'm assuming you're in your early 30s).

I wish I'm 43 next week

I hope you at least have some plan in mind

Carnival Boy

Not really, no. I still haven't figured out what I really want to do with my life. But I'm really happy, so......

tonyshowoff

@Carnival-Boy said:

Not really, no. I still haven't figured out what I really want to do with my life. But I'm really happy, so......

No shame in that

thanksajdotcom

I talked to my GM and he has told him that if he wants me as Expert, I want $12/hour, as well as he understood that in the next 1-2 years, I want to work towards sales manager. He agreed and said that'd work. The current Expert's last day is April 11. So my first day will be April 12.

coliver

@thanksajdotcom said:

I talked to my GM and he has told him that if he wants me as Expert, I want $12/hour, as well as he understood that in the next 1-2 years, I want to work towards sales manager. He agreed and said that'd work. The current Expert's last day is April 11. So my first day will be April 12.

Congrats, and have fun with it.

thanksajdotcom

@coliver said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

I talked to my GM and he has told him that if he wants me as Expert, I want $12/hour, as well as he understood that in the next 1-2 years, I want to work towards sales manager. He agreed and said that'd work. The current Expert's last day is April 11. So my first day will be April 12.

Congrats, and have fun with it.

Thanks!!

Dashrender

@thanksajdotcom said:

I talked to my GM and he has told him that if he wants me as Expert, I want $12/hour, as well as he understood that in the next 1-2 years, I want to work towards sales manager. He agreed and said that'd work. The current Expert's last day is April 11. So my first day will be April 12.

I'm wondering, why can't there be any overlap?

thanksajdotcom

@Dashrender said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

I talked to my GM and he has told him that if he wants me as Expert, I want $12/hour, as well as he understood that in the next 1-2 years, I want to work towards sales manager. He agreed and said that'd work. The current Expert's last day is April 11. So my first day will be April 12.

I'm wondering, why can't there be any overlap?

Scheduling mostly. Store doesn't have that many hours to give...

coliver

Being the fastest growing anything in NYS really isn't that hard to do. There has been a great exodus of business and talent in the north east (especially NY) so growing quickly really doesn't mean that much of anything when you consider the background.

scottalanmiller

@thanksajdotcom said:

I talked to my GM and he has told him that if he wants me as Expert, I want $12/hour, as well as he understood that in the next 1-2 years, I want to work towards sales manager. He agreed and said that'd work. The current Expert's last day is April 11. So my first day will be April 12.

Excellent. You picked a high number, but a reasonable one (a verified reasonable one which is great!) and did the right thing. That's a 9% raise over what was already offered. That's a huge score. I think that you are going to be very happy having decided on this. Congrats.

Dominica

Wise, mature decision, A.J.. Congrats, and well done.

thanksajdotcom

@Dominica said:

Wise, mature decision, A.J.. Congrats, and well done.

Thanks Dominica.

StrongBad

Sounds like you are making a sound decision. Not a fancy or flashy one, but a sound one.

thanksajdotcom

If I decide I do want to get into management, the Expert job will be a perfect segway. It's a keyholder position, leadership position, etc. I do well at this for awhile and I don't doubt the other will just happen at the right time.

Huw3481

@thanksajdotcom said:

If I decide I do want to get into management, the Expert job will be a perfect segway. It's a keyholder position, leadership position, etc. I do well at this for awhile and I don't doubt the other will just happen at the right time.
a] Congrats.
b] Segue. Just sayin' Segway is a personal transport device

thanksajdotcom

@Huw3481 said:

@thanksajdotcom said:
If I decide I do want to get into management, the Expert job will be a perfect segway. It's a keyholder position, leadership position, etc. I do well at this for awhile and I don't doubt the other will just happen at the right time.
a] Congrats.
b] Segue. Just sayin' Segway is a personal transport device

Ah, good to know. Learn something new every day. Thanks!

thanksajdotcom

Right now I'm looking into a way to possibly work both jobs full-time...you know, because who needs sleep?

scottalanmiller

@thanksajdotcom said:

Right now I'm looking into a way to possibly work both jobs full-time...you know, because who needs sleep?

Probably a bad idea, but I appreciate the reasoning behind this.

scottalanmiller

I did spend most of my career doing more than one full time job at a time. It is exhausting and dangerous (career wise) but it also allows you to gain experience, exposure and skills at a pace that you can't easily do otherwise. Plus, obviously, you earn more money this way.

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller said:

I did spend most of my career doing more than one full time job at a time. It is exhausting and dangerous (career wise) but it also allows you to gain experience, exposure and skills at a pace that you can't easily do otherwise. Plus, obviously, you earn more money this way.

I'm trying to find a way to do this for my friend. I won't be able to keep it up forever, but if I can do it for at least six months, we'll see what happens...