re: 18% pay cut to work from home?

While it may not be in the city limits of Jefferson. You can't forget this peach across 85

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I wouldn't - I would quit driving 3 or 4 hours a day and focus on increasing my income at the company with better growth and opportunity potential

plus, you may burn that bridge if you go down that road...

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This is the discussion.


It is highly likely my Day Job will try to make me an offer I can't refuse.

My wife is on your side.... say No, you had your chance, you let me slip away.. I'm not slipping away, I've slipped away...


But me.... all I see are dollar signs.

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Part time one called me back, said if I went full time they'd give me X. It's 18% paycut (but the benefits are slightly better). 

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On a serious note, use that for your benefit. They obviously like and value you as an employee. Tell them the situation you are in and the income difference. I would suggest adding a little more say like 25% vs 18% that is of course if they don't know what you're currently making. If they counter and say. "Would you be willing to stay if we matched your current salary? " you win plus get a 7% raise. If the say " we'll we would really love to have you as an asset to our company but we can't fit the % 25 in our budget this year, if we could do the 18% and have an official review of your work ytd in December and if you exceed expectations then we will make room in the budget next year for the additional 7% to get you to the 25% you're asking for"

Win win brother. Trust me this shite happens all the time. It's all about how good and comfortable you're with negotiations. .

best of luck whatever you choose

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If you take the money out of it, which job do you like more?

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I hate them both equally.

Spunk, we did that discussion in feb.

They came back this week with my bottom line from feb.


Now if current employer raises the stakes, i will turn that back around.

Its all a little stressful but its a good problem to have. Alot of people struggle to find work, and i have two employers about to go thunderdome over me.

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I hate them both equally.

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That's why they call it work you pansy

I typically am of the mindset to take the job that pays better even if it costs me some quality of life (like I said... it's called work for a reason).

However, I also believe in jumping on a career opportunity. I've turned down jobs with $10k per month guaranty (I'm in sales) because I know that they were crap companies and I'd be pissing off clients. I took a job with a $4k guaranty because I knew that I'd be worth more in a career at the better company.

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That's why they call it work you pansy

I typically am of the mindset to take the job that pays better even if it costs me some quality of life (like I said... it's called work for a reason).

However, I also believe in jumping on a career opportunity. I've turned down jobs with $10k per month guaranty (I'm in sales) because I know that they were crap companies and I'd be pissing off clients. I took a job with a $4k guaranty because I knew that I'd be worth more in a career at the better company.

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I think we are the same age. I remember you saying you entered UGA in 96.



I am a shitty salesman. I project my intelligence onto my customer. I did great with intelligent customers. Too bad most people are fricking idiots.

I quit sales around 2006.

The good thing about sales is that your income is limitless. A 4k/month guaranty and a 10k/month guaranty means absolutely nothing at the right company.

The bad thing about sales is that you are only as good as your product, your service, your solutions, AND your customers.

Shitty customers make for shitty sales. I understand what you mean.

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You would have to pay me a crap ton of $ to want to commute Athens --> ATL every day.

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I did the math on this once for deeprig.....

People making this commute five days a week spend a little over 1 month PER YEAR sitting in their cars.

That's 24 hours a day straight..... for a month....... out of EVERY YEAR...... sitting in thier cars,............as life passes them by.

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Quite possibly. The 18% is probably a wash. You save on gas and eating out, but your power consumption will increase. Depends on what you are doing if distractions would be an issue or not.

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You have to factor in the tax break you get when working from home.

* You said the position is IT, so you will be using your home computer for work (or better yet, buy a dedicated 'work computer' to use only for work). Every tax season, you claim depreciation on the computer.
* Whatever room you designate as your "home office" could be claimed in your taxes.
* Assuming you use Internet for said job, you can write-off a % of your Internet/Cable bills. This also goes for your phone bills.
* Any time you eat lunch, it is a business expense that can be written off. Hell, any time you use ANYTHING for work, it is a business expense.

You will want to keep all bills, receipts, paperwork to show you paid for all of this stuff while "on the clock."

Full disclosure: I am not a tax lawyer, accountant, etc., so please research all I have stated before claiming everything lol.