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Received an offer as Engagement Director from Salesforce (CSG, pre sales, L9). Great benefits package, 40% increase in total comp and better WLB.
I do love the people in my practice and current client, but career trajectory has stalled after taking parental leave earlier this year and (yet another) change in leadership.
Realistically, making to Director is 2-3 years away and will require sacrificing time with my family that I am not prepared to give up.
Should I stay or should I go?
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Would you pay 80k to spend more time with your kids?
Or even 50-60k (post tax)
And also wow, FOUR little kids??? In consulting? You’re a rock star lol. That fintech job is going to be easy by comparison to what you’ve already accomplished as BEING A MOM TO FOUR YOUNG KIDS while in consulting
No one at that fintech has done anything harder or more amazing than you so you walk in there with your BIG MOMMA ENERGY and get that bank !
Omg haha thank you so much!! I feel like my job in consulting is very chill though, I work for a smaller firm with really good wlb. We are just going through layoffs so I’m trying to get ahead of it in case I’m impacted. I really appreciate it though - just got back to work after Mat leave and it’s REALLY hard
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I would not consider a bank job “low risk”, specially if it is chill. “AI forward” is not just limited to Fintechs. It impacts everyone and banks are not an exception
I would choose fintech, because they are “AI forward “ and they are in tech space. If WLB is really bad and unmanageable,then bank job- but I won’t have any illusions of about it being safe and will continue to look for options that further my career
That bank job sounds awful. I just left for a fintech and wouldn’t look back. Very AI forward environment. Loving it.
Is the Bank remote? How old are your kids? How old are you or how much longer do you need to be working?
Option 1 if you need to be working 10+ more years. Less than that, Option 2 (if also your finances are good like you don’t need to contribute to retirement accounts anymore, you’ve got a brokerage account that’s making solid returns, etc.)
At a certain net worth, your time is more valuable than money, because your money is growing on its own and you don’t need a high paying high stress time intensive job. Just my thoughts.
Unless you’re in coast FIRE type territory with your finances/ investments, chose Option 1 to make bank to invest aggressively in index funds, and get skills so that everything after that job will feel chill by comparison. Your kids being daycare age is probably the best time as a mom to have this type of role- day care hours are much more predictable than school hours because schools have so so many more random school closures and of course school breaks. And then at that age they want you volunteering at their school, being the coach, being at all the games, driving them to all the practices and games and friends houses - your time for work decreases so much during the elementary through middle school age so that’s when I would pivot to a more chill job.
Which did you go for poster?
I really should’ve waited to make this post since I was early in the interview stages. The fintech one I didn’t make it past the interview process. Have the final interview scheduled for the bank here tomorrow. Not sure if I’m going to take it if offered or if I should stay for now/keep looking elsewhere.