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I'd always thought about getting one of those but never got round to it.

 

I have an opportunity to change jobs. My job causes me a ton of stress and I would love to leave it behind, plus the new job matches my pay, plus adds in bonuses. On top of that, the new job has a much better schedule and gets me more time with my family.

However, there is limited opportunity for advancement in the new job, whereas there is potential for promotion at my current job which would bump my pay up significantly. Enough of a raise in pay to make me have second thoughts of leaving.

So the real question is should money be a bigger factor that stress and job satisfaction? What do you guys think?

 

So, you could change jobs make a little more money, spend more time with family, and be less stressed (which could help you quit smoking) but you're not sure because you might get some promotion someday?

I would recommend getting a raise at the new place, not just a match. See if dropping your 2 weeks is enough leverage to force a promotion at the current job. If it isnt, you probably wouldnt have gotten it anyway, so leave. Most importantly, remember that don't have to stay at the new place either. After 18-24 months start looking elsewhere.

I should write a book on my unprecedented trolling of the private sector in the last few years.

 

The new job is matching my pay after negotiation. It's significantly less work and responsibility and usually pays less than I am being offered currently.

I'm going to test the waters at my current job just for curiosity, but I've pretty much made up my mind to leave last night after posting this.

 

Amazon instant video on PS3, audio slightly out and its fucking annoying.

PS4 works perfectly.

 

PS3 was pretty cool when it came out but it's tech is a bit slow and dated now. Over here you can get a Chromecast for $28, Fire TV for $85, and a Roku 3 for $99. Chromcast takes some trickery to get Prime to work so it might not be the best option. Fire TV is kind of cool. Prime movies start instantly with it. They actually start streaming while you browse so by the time you press play they are going.

 

My Honda hit 105K miles and I have about $1500 of maintenance to do on it. I figured I do some of it myself even though I haven't touched an engine in years. So far I did the spark plugs, air filter, transmission fluid and transfer case oil. I'm thinking about trying to do the timing belt and water pump as well. I can do it myself for about $200 or a shop will do it for $850.

 

DIY is so much more fun. I don't understand how people wouldn't want to work on their own car. It gives me such a sense of pride, especially given that most of it is self taught.

 

One of the worst parts of my job, calling up suppliers who have provided a quote and telling them that they haven't won the business. Why? Because they just don't give in, they start trying to offer you this and that and all you want to do is get off of the phone.

They know they are one of four or five different providers who quoted for the job and that there was only a 20-25% chance they would get the job but they still won't accept that it took 6 months to get a bloody decision made and it isn't going to be looked at all over again.

Even after they provide you with the quote they call you every other damned day to try to push the issue...

I need to disconnect my phone.

 

I hate it too but I think most vendors know it's like fishing. Sometime you get the catch and sometimes you don't. The only way a company can guarantee a win is if they provide a custom service and I write up justification for needing it. Some of them try to work that angle.

 

This project is actually to replace our point to point fibre with a more sensible MPLS solution so that we have more redundancy if an office goes down as currently everything goes straight through head office. Head office goes and all of the other sites lose access to each other so even if we fire up a DR site at another office the others still can't talk to it.

To be fair they all came up with pretty good solutions but there could only be one winner of the contract and trying to tell the others that was hard work.

 

Yeah. That spoke and hub design is old school badness. MPLS seems to be the best way to go these days. Were there any QoS concerns? You had complete control over your point to points but the cloud doesn't have any guaranteed service unless you pay for it.

 

We are going with 30Mbps fibre on a 100Mbps bearer at each site so we have the ability to bump it up if we find any issues.

To be honest at the moment the only data that goes down the lines is Block Level San replication (which is small at block level), word document replication via DFS and .NET based accounts data back to a SQL server so 30 should be loads.

We are still on an old school phone system, hosted voice will be an option next year which is where QoS will have to be looked at.

We have FTTC (VDSL 80/20) backups going at each site too should the main fibre fail. The fibre is staying with BT and it has never gone down in the past 5 years.

 

Hosted voice? I hate the idea. I put a lot of effort into preventing that from happening on our network. If you don't want control you might as well stay on your PBX.

 

The problem is we are still running a Nortel BCM at each site and Avaya are going to stop making parts within 2 years I believe so we are going to have to do something.

We are currently paying £20,000/year in just maintenance and line charges before any calls are made. Hosted voice would save big money on this but I an sure I can get BT to cut the costs a bit to keep using the copper.

 

It's the hidden cost that I don't like. If they're crafty they'll get you for every move, add, and change. They'll amaze the customers with the possible features and then shock them much later on with prices. Of course that may not be the case at all over there but that's how it works here. I love doing cost and feature comparisons and then showing it to management with the vendors in the room.

 

I hate being in a swing state during elections. People are calling or knocking on my door all day long. Even my cell phone has been getting calls twice a day which I didn't think was legal.

 

Seems like there are always other choices on the ballet. People no one has ever heard of. I never know what to do about the Judges. How the hell do I know if they are a good judge or not. I'm not going to take a day and review their cases.