Another promotion at work

[bobosensei]

I'm finally in the department that has been trying to get me the last couple of years.  Found out friday that I'll sign paperwork on Monday.  I am getting more money,  but don't know how much yet.  I was just told they were taking money from the person that left the department last and splitting it between me and someone else.  Even though this is a step up in my career it will be less work than what I do now and I'll be able to get away with doing a couple of days of work from home permanently.  So I'll be happy even with just a few thousand more.  This will get me the experience to be able to get a job making more elsewhere if I don't feel like I'm paid fairly.  I'm at 82.5k now and I think low to mid 90s is fair.  they've  always been good with money.  My first internal  promotion I got a 10% bump which was 6.5k, my second I got 10k, and I know when my friend came to this department they gave him 5k (he was making 90k though).

I'm happiest about leaving behind the long hours I was having to do to keep up with everything.  I'm going to be working with a good group of people, and we are getting to create a new product.  I'm excited.

[finnime]

Awesome news.

[TheOtherMe]

Congrats!

[ners]

Congratulations bobosensei.  Will this help your life work balance.

[Ava]

Congratulations. That's fantastic. 

[sesfw]

Fantastic ………. congrats


How is your furbaby doing? … 

[debthaven]

Congratulations! Does this help your commute (aside from working from home sometimes)?

[bobosensei]

Jun 8, 2019 20:34:38 GMT -5 sesfw said:

Fantastic ………. congrats


How is your furbaby doing? … 

He's still hanging on.  More frequent digestion issues, but otherwise is happy.  I think some of his need to get up in the middle of the night is from me feeding him very late.  I'm looking to get back to a place where I can feed him by 6pm.  And I'm going to buy a baby gate so I can keep him in the master bathroom.

[bobosensei]

Jun 8, 2019 16:59:53 GMT -5 ners said:

Congratulations bobosensei .  Will this help your life work balance.

absolutely. Talked to my new supervisor who did the role I am currently in as well as the one I am going to and agreed that it is much less work.  We don't see me working regular 10 hour days with no lunch break anymore.  We have a few meetings next week and he will help me get adjusted to things.  He's also taking on responsibility for what I currently do and will train the replacement.  They didn't let him interview the lady coming in behind me so I think he wants to make sure he's the one setting the expectations.  

[bobosensei]

Jun 9, 2019 3:40:12 GMT -5 debthaven said:

Congratulations! Does this help your commute (aside from working from home sometimes)?

Commute times range 40-80 minutes depending on time of day.  I'll maintain the ability to come and go when it is closer to 40 minutes except a few days a quarter when we have meetings that are 8-5.

Working from home a minimum of 2 days a week will be huge for me.  Once I am settled I'll add a third day every other week so that I'm working from home half the time.

Long term I think I'll try to end up closer to the place where my job is.  Tech jobs are prevalent there so likely even if I leave this company I'll still be working in the same part of town.  It was just I couldn't afford to buy a home there.  it was 300k for a house 50 years old with much needed maintenance (roofs and acs etc) or 500k for anything else.  And I was looking in the under 300 range.  If things keep going well for me in a few years I would be able to move back there unless housing prices continue to go crazy.