madgeylou
5-26-11, 10:32am
as some of you may know, i'm knee-deep (maybe neck-deep!) in starting my own company. we are building, slowly but surely, and wrapping our minds around all the marketing things we need to do. but we are not really making any money yet -- just enough to keep the company going.
at the same time, i'm working part time at a local restaurant (a really great one!) as a hostess just to pay my bills around the house. it's a fun enough job, and easy enough to do, and i just make enough to pay my half of the household. but it's 2 bus rides away (i only take the car about half the time), keeps me up later than i'd like, and kind of wreaks havoc on my energy levels.
enter possible new job. a very cool local company is looking for, well, basically me. i'm sure the pay would be good (enough to get my fella and i, jointly, into 6 figures) and the work they do is super interesting. ALMOST but not quite as interesting as what my company is doing, but in an entirely different field.
so ... i am considering applying for this job. my skills would be a perfect fit, and i do think i could do a good job of it. however, this would squeeze my wts time into nights and weekends. i may be able to get this job to allow me to work 4 ten hour days rather than the regular 9 to 5, but it's the kind of job where you have to be on call to clients pretty much all the time (lots of them are on the west coast, so they may want contact well into dinner time in my area).
on one hand, if i could get any kind of flexibility in this job, i think it would be a really good fit for me.
on the other hand, i don't want to starve my own little company of the attention and brainpower it needs to grow and become the awesome thing i know it can be!
i guess i'm just looking for some impartial advice (which is hard to get from people who know and love me in person). the conservative get-out-of-debt-and-have-a-steady-paycheck side of me wants some security and, well, a steady paycheck. the visionary side of me knows that wts can be amazing and profitable and perhaps even world-changing, but it will take some time. time in which my savings continue to dwindle instead of grow...
there's also a part of me that worries that a job opportunity this perfect for me may not come by again soon ... and i also wonder if it's ethical to take a job knowing that i will not be there past the point which my own company is throwing off enough profit to support me.
at this point, i am thinking that i will just apply and see what happens. if there's no opportunity for flexibility, then i have my answer. and if there is, maybe i can negotiate something that will work.
what do you think, SLN friends? any facets of this i haven't considered? any "third way" options you can see with your impartial eyes?
thanks in advance :)
at the same time, i'm working part time at a local restaurant (a really great one!) as a hostess just to pay my bills around the house. it's a fun enough job, and easy enough to do, and i just make enough to pay my half of the household. but it's 2 bus rides away (i only take the car about half the time), keeps me up later than i'd like, and kind of wreaks havoc on my energy levels.
enter possible new job. a very cool local company is looking for, well, basically me. i'm sure the pay would be good (enough to get my fella and i, jointly, into 6 figures) and the work they do is super interesting. ALMOST but not quite as interesting as what my company is doing, but in an entirely different field.
so ... i am considering applying for this job. my skills would be a perfect fit, and i do think i could do a good job of it. however, this would squeeze my wts time into nights and weekends. i may be able to get this job to allow me to work 4 ten hour days rather than the regular 9 to 5, but it's the kind of job where you have to be on call to clients pretty much all the time (lots of them are on the west coast, so they may want contact well into dinner time in my area).
on one hand, if i could get any kind of flexibility in this job, i think it would be a really good fit for me.
on the other hand, i don't want to starve my own little company of the attention and brainpower it needs to grow and become the awesome thing i know it can be!
i guess i'm just looking for some impartial advice (which is hard to get from people who know and love me in person). the conservative get-out-of-debt-and-have-a-steady-paycheck side of me wants some security and, well, a steady paycheck. the visionary side of me knows that wts can be amazing and profitable and perhaps even world-changing, but it will take some time. time in which my savings continue to dwindle instead of grow...
there's also a part of me that worries that a job opportunity this perfect for me may not come by again soon ... and i also wonder if it's ethical to take a job knowing that i will not be there past the point which my own company is throwing off enough profit to support me.
at this point, i am thinking that i will just apply and see what happens. if there's no opportunity for flexibility, then i have my answer. and if there is, maybe i can negotiate something that will work.
what do you think, SLN friends? any facets of this i haven't considered? any "third way" options you can see with your impartial eyes?
thanks in advance :)