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Old 03-08-2016, 11:05 AM
 
Location: Atlanta metro (Cobb County)
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Ultimately it's your decision, but you have posted repeatedly that there are virtually no open positions in your field in metropolitan Hartford - and now you have an offer in the area, but none elsewhere. Middletown is close to your family but not too close, and not as expensive as where you lived in CT previously. Even if you don't initially get the compensation you expect, having a broader role and increased responsibility is good experience that can make you more marketable for subsequent jobs. The pay and benefits could improve in the future, especially if the company is pleased with your performance and is itself faring well.

I like Nashville personally but don't think it lines up very well with what you would be looking for in a place to live. It has a lot of similarities to Charlotte which you've already experienced, but is further from the Northeast, and a little smaller and more conservative.

Good luck and try to keep an open mind about the many pieces of advice offered on this thread. Whether we like it or not, compromise is part of working life - whether that's on location, benefits, compensation, job environment, title, hours, career development, prestige, and other factors. If this Middletown offer is too much of a compromise for you to accept, decline it and move on - but there is no need to feel insulted when it doesn't meet your standards.

 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:09 AM
 
Location: Florida
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It's just the worst job offer I've ever received in my entire career. Totally de-motivating. Obviously, if I turn down the offer with only 7 weeks of unemployment left, it's a big risk. But it might be a risk worth taking.
 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:14 AM
 
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It's just the worst job offer I've ever received in my entire career. Totally de-motivating. Obviously, if I turn down the offer with only 7 weeks of unemployment left, it's a big risk. But it might be a risk worth taking.
People like you really do make me laugh, you don't appreciate things in life and what you have but maybe you will one day but that day might be too late.
 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:19 AM
 
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Shocking...

Nep's going to sabotage himself. Again.

Is that a skill set in his case?
 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:21 AM
 
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Also, the fact that my resume history is unstable doesn't matter too much when it comes to the offered salary. Despite big gaps of unemployment, I have ALWAYS gotten pay raises when getting a new job.

You took a huge cut Columbus vs Stamford, OP.
 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:22 AM
 
Location: In an indoor space
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This is a TAX manager role in a corporation. The norm is $70-120K.
Look nep you have to realize that you don't have managerial experience and you getting an offer of such without such experience should be looked at as a real positive thing even though the salary (understandably) falls short.

If you were an experienced TAX Manager I could then see your point of the salary offered being too low.

Food for thought: Just think about this that you "take your lumps now" to later get that norm salary once you get that managerial experience under your belt. You once wanted a "career change" well this opportunity will broaden your accounting experience while again later an upside of greater justified "norm" salary.
 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Florida
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You took a huge cut Columbus vs Stamford, OP.
That was a justified pay cut though. Going from Stamford CT to Columbus OH is definitely going to be a significant pay cut. So I was okay with that. But now, this Middletown company thinks it's perfectly fine to pay me below market value.
 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:25 AM
 
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It's funny how people in this forum advised me against relocating to Columbus because the offer that I received here last year "stinks." Yet now, this offer is even WORSE, and people are advising me to take it. What the hell....


I was ok with Ohio, but you were in a better spot last year at that time, as you were EMPLOYED. In 7 weeks, you will be whining about using 3k of savings per month.
 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:27 AM
 
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Only roughly half the people make above average pay...

That's the half without gaps in their resumes and wasn't fired from their last job.

Nep, you're not in that half any more. You've been canned. You have a series of recent gaps in employment. You've shown recently you're not on the track that gets preferred salary and benefits.

.



Bingo.
 
Old 03-08-2016, 11:30 AM
 
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That was a justified pay cut though. Going from Stamford CT to Columbus OH is definitely going to be a significant pay cut. So I was okay with that. But now, this Middletown company thinks it's perfectly fine to pay me below market value.

No they are paying like most would to someone w/o managerial experience who will be managing no one.


The title is overstated, no doubt, but that does not increase the function or market value one iota.
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