Job application for animal tech role completed! Fuck I hope I get an interview at least, so I can see what those types of roles are looking for specifically.
I still don’t know if I want to go vet nurse or animal tech though. I can do the Cert IV Vet Nurse at my current TAFE, or go to Box Hill for the Diploma in Animal Tech. Vet Nurses are needed quite desperately, but so are Animal Techs, and Animal Tech is very lab-based research - which is extremely up my alley haha.
I’d love to be an advocate for animal welfare in animal tech spaces, and I’m not sure I could handle vet nursing due to the clients (many unknowingly mistreat their pets), but either way I just want to help animals. Vet nursing means I can help owners understand their pets needs, and animal tech means I could contribute to life saving medicine and research.
I was also considering animal agriculture as well, but I’ll 100% need my driver’s license for that!
I love all the animals! Choices choices!!!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Got the offer from Toshiba but there will be a background check. So let’s see what happens. Another place did the reference check so that’s good.
Place number 3 is still interviewing.
Eagle@aussie.zone 4 days ago
You spend a third of your life at work, so you need to be happy and safe there. Your better deal is going to come with strings, so it’s not really better. Take less dollars for peace and support because it will cost you less in the long run.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 4 days ago
I’d take a pay cut for peace of mind, particularly after hearing about all the crap you’ve been through there. Working for a (hopefully) more professional and reputable org will likely mean better job security and advancement opportunities in future, too. Whatever you decide, good luck!
tone212_@aussie.zone 4 days ago
I would take less money to leave. I was in a similar situation to you once, never regretted leaving and then working on increasing my salary at the new job once I was in the door.
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Take less.
If my brain is functioning, apparently 80k is the happiness mark, beyond that it pretty much remains the same. There are also endless stories of people who had immensely well paying jobs who have taken drastic pay cuts and blue collar jobs and are exponentially happier.
While I’m in an odd sort of position, dropping a day when I was permanent to converting to casual and finally going elsewhere… So much happier. So much. (There were a couple extra things going on, but still. That feeling that you have to be there, when you don’t want to… Ugh.)
Catfish@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Thought you were working on an expungement?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 days ago
It happens in October this year :(
dumblederp@aussie.zone 4 days ago
You current place sounds like a cross between thunderdome and a sinking ship. I’d try to leverage you current salary against the new offers, but, assuming they’re all over $75k, I’d accept a 10% hit for a job at a better place. At the first performance review I’d be pressing for them to at least match the old salary.
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Hm, I’d leave, even if the pay is slightly less at the new place. One of the most important aspects of society today is mental health, and no matter how much money you make, if a workplace is contributing to a severe decline in your mental health it is always best to move on!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 4 days ago
I place a lot of value on mental health - because treating it is fucking costly as well not just in terms of treatments/support/comfort, but also lost opportunities and time - so the gap in pay would have to be quite significant for me to stay on at a rapidly deteriorating workplace.
I initially took a fair bit of a pay cut (>10k/yr if you include allowances) from my old job to each of my two roles last year, but it was infinitely worth it for how much less stress was involved at work. And it’s paid off; the job I stayed on at increased my wage so much that the FTE is now equivalent to what I last earned (including allowances) but for FAR less stress and responsibilities in terms of colleagues as well as the workload itself.
Cannot recommend it more highly. Work often feels like such a bloody waste of time anyway, I don’t want it to eat up so much of my mental energy as well if my main financial needs are met
Duenan@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Hard one to be honest.
You’re probably being overworked and not being paid enough though I don’t know what that figure is.
Also they’ve made you a scapegoat with some of the stuff that’s happened and also I’m not sure what the future of the company is considering what’s happened so far but you do have a job.
I would take slightly less money to be a lot happier and have less of a workload if that makes you happy but also it’s often said the grass is greener on the other side.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 days ago
🤞