7.22.2005

to do or not to do

so i find myself in the middle of an employment dilemma. i currently have a mid-level retail management job at a major department store. i am a customer service person and i hate it. i don't mind the corporation so much as i am just sick to death of dealing with the people i work with. my supervisor is a completely narcissistic ass and if you aren't currently in possession of a penis, you aren't going anywhere above a certain level in our store. however, i have good benefits, a very flexible schedule, and i am finding, not too bad of pay. i am pretty much done with the b.s. in my store. almost every day i go into work and within twenty minutes i am pissed off. a majority of my friends are leaving and now i am looking too. i have been looking around and interviewing with a couple of places and now i have the afore mentioned dilemma.

i have an interview for an assistant manager position with a large home improvement store. the interview is aug 4th, the position is a salaried position with immediate benefits, profit sharing, stock options, and about $10000 more a year. WELL, today i got offered a position with a new place opening here in town. it's doing the same thing i am doing now, making about $.40 cents more an hour, good benefits, but they don't start for 90 days, with vacation not for a year. i would have to start on aug 13th. so my dilemma is this, do i take a position that makes only $.40 cents more and no vacation for a year just to be out of my store? what if i get the asst. manager job at the other place? i will have to accept or pass on this new position before i will know about that job. should i stay where i am on the off chance i will get the asst manager job? i have had two interviews already and at the next one i will have to take tests and go through a series of scenarios with regional managers. i have never interviewed for a job and not gotten it though. *sigh* whattodo whattodo

you may not know me, but your opinion is appreciated!