What Factors Influence Your Choice Of A New Job?

8 responses to “What Factors Influence Your Choice Of A New Job?”

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   f4ction

   July 27, 2011

   Basically the lack of any future promotions in my current career for at least another 10-15 years is very depressing. This has just kept mounting to the point I consider my job “hellish” and will do almost anything to leave.

   That and the fact that I’m over the 2.5 hours of commuting to and from work every day. Location location location, ey? I will take a lower paying, more boring career if it means I’m closer to home and thus have more time to do what I want after hours. At present I have to wait until the weekend to do anything.

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      Gladice

      July 27, 2011

      +1 for location. Easily one of the most important factors.

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      BunnyFuFu

      July 27, 2011

      +1 of location. I spend 2.5 hours in driving a day as well. Along with working a 10 hour day

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      Stove

      July 27, 2011

      +1 location. I stayed at my last job far longer than I should because I couldn’t give up living 50m from work.

      I’ll eventually leave this job because there’s nowhere to go from here – I love the job, the perks, and the people, but at some point you’re just not learning anything new.

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   Grayda

   July 27, 2011

   Moar money. As a part-time photographer and web designer, and full time helpdesk operator with bills to pay and a single income, saving money is hard. So a little extra per week would be awesome.

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   Jase

   July 27, 2011

   Doing something that actually is self satisfying/rewarding and also challenging. Also doing something only a few people in the world do is a pretty cool thing as well.

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   Tom

   July 27, 2011

   There’s so many reasons to choose each one but to add a different aspect on things, as a undergrad, it’d definitely be work environment/career benefits. Sure there’s some times where I’d really want the money (read: poor uni student) but at the end of it you realise that ultimately want that desire to go to work. Who cares if you’re earning $150k first year out, if you have to work in poor conditions I wouldn’t see it as a good job by any means.

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   Steve Bennett

   July 27, 2011

   Not surprisingly, “work environment” is scoring highly. It is life hacker, after all – the site for people who like customising their environment (including in various metaphorical ways…)

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