Let's Go Blues

You were recently offered a management position at a company. It is something that would be awesome and would give you oodles of experience. It has a client ell of over 800,000/year (composites, sports pictures, etc.) which you would oversee (and also have the opportunity to shoot!). Even though it doesn't pay as much as your current job, it has significant growth potential, casual environment, and it's a family business (very nice people). Monday-Friday job with a bit of weekend work, as business picks up. Job security is high.

You currently work as a manager in a multi-million dollar restaurant, which you dislike. The pay is very good and the growth potential is decent. However, it is VERY political and you have become somewhat of a target with the administrative staff due to some bad luck you've had while at work, none of which was your fault (yet you still get blamed). Job security isn't great, as management turnover is somewhat high. So it's kind of dead end. Work every weekend and long hours.

So what would you do?

Ahem, this isn't about me. It's about a friend of mine...

Take whatever gets you out of Lawrence, Bybee.

Mellanby_equals_grit wrote:Take whatever gets you out of Lawrence, Bybee.

Its for a friend though, apparently. Where is this new business? maybe he can get you a job there when he becomes successful in it? Tell him to find it and skull frank it

then get out of lawrence

Any chance you have to get out of the restaurant business should be considered a gift from a higher power of some sort.

GET THE F*** OUT and congrats!

From the way it sounds your friend is already on the doorstep to leaving just without a job lined up. Take the job with less stress before you get blindsided, and that job is already filled. Leave on your terms. How can you go wrong with good job security and future opportunities.

If your friend hates his present job - he/she should get out.
If you have to spend your life working - might as well make it a job that you find interesting, and enjoy.

I took the job.... err... my friend did.

Yeah for getting out of the restaurant business!!!

First off, Lawrence is a great place to live.

Second, congrats TSU.

ksbluesfan wrote:First off, Lawrence is a great place to live.

Second, congrats TSU.

Lawrence is 2nd only to Detroit on the list of evil places in the world.

Mellanby_equals_grit wrote:

ksbluesfan wrote:First off, Lawrence is a great place to live.

Second, congrats TSU.

Lawrence is 2nd only to Detroit on the list of evil places in the world.

Why? Do you dislike great live music, excellent restaurants, great record stores or hippies? I lived in Lawrence for 3 years, and absolutely loved it. If not for the hot coed chicks, I wouldn't have noticed that there was a college there.

ksbluesfan wrote:

Mellanby_equals_grit wrote:

ksbluesfan wrote:First off, Lawrence is a great place to live.

Second, congrats TSU.

Lawrence is 2nd only to Detroit on the list of evil places in the world.

Why? Do you dislike great live music, excellent restaurants, great record stores or hippies? I lived in Lawrence for 3 years, and absolutely loved it. If not for the hot coed chicks, I wouldn't have noticed that there was a college there.

Can you not notice the simple fact that Jayhawkers live there?

And yeah I've spent time there. Objectively it's fine. I wouldn't put it as any cooler place to live than Columbia. Though I think you're high if you can pretend there's no college there.

But I see that goofy-ass bird and hate floods through my body that only the winged wheel could surpass.

Mellanby_equals_grit wrote:

ksbluesfan wrote:

Mellanby_equals_grit wrote:

ksbluesfan wrote:First off, Lawrence is a great place to live.

Second, congrats TSU.

Lawrence is 2nd only to Detroit on the list of evil places in the world.

Why? Do you dislike great live music, excellent restaurants, great record stores or hippies? I lived in Lawrence for 3 years, and absolutely loved it. If not for the hot coed chicks, I wouldn't have noticed that there was a college there.

Can you not notice the simple fact that Jayhawkers live there?

And yeah I've spent time there. Objectively it's fine. I wouldn't put it as any cooler place to live than Columbia. Though I think you're high if you can pretend there's no college there.

But I see that goofy-ass bird and hate floods through my body that only the winged wheel could surpass.

I saw some of the greatest shows in Lawrence such as White Zombie at the Outhouse with 12 other people, Pearl Jam about a month after Ten was released at the Day On The Hill, countless shows at the Bottleneck. There were so many bands on the brink of making big, the town had a buzz comparable to Austin TX. William S. Burroughs could be seen walking down Mass. St. Fred Phelps appeared regularly with his "God Hates Fags" family. Hot sorority girls were just a bonus. I loved my years there.

Assuming the difference in pay isn't a ton, I'd take a lesser paying job that I would love, over a higher paying job that I wouldn't like.
Personally, I think it's worth quite a bit of money to be happy at work. Less stress, you'll live longer and be happier in general.
To get up in the morning and actually look forward to going to work is something special, IMO.

Judging by the way you wrote the article, you are already heavily leaning one way

take the new job.

Mellanby_equals_grit wrote: Lawrence is 2nd only to Detroit on the list of evil places in the world.

Plusity plus plus. On my recent trip to Denver, I made sure to not gas up in Lawrence. Frank those Jayhawkers. If I could load up the entire state of Kansas on a barge and give it a Missouri sled ride, I would.

Lawrence is a kick-ass college town. The campus is way more scenic than Mizzou, and the surrounding neighborhoods have great laid-back house parties compared to all the greek BS at Mizzou. And Free State is better than Flat Branch. And Papa Keno's is better than Shakespeare's.

The Mizzou hatred for KU cracks me up. My parents both went there and were always giving me crap. But at KU we could really give a crap about Mizzou. Our hatred was all focused on K-State.

big d note wrote: The Mizzou hatred for KU cracks me up. My parents both went there and were always giving me crap. But at KU we could really give a crap about Mizzou. Our hatred was all focused on K-State.

Was at Mickey D's a couple months back when some busload of Kansans came in the doors (couldn't tell if they were high schooler or college-age). After counting at least three KU Orange Bowl t-shirts in the crowd, in fricking Columbia, I think my hate is justified. I also loved the classy movie of KU's baseball team wearing red socks (aka redlegs, check your Civil War history) when they came to town two seasons back.

Historicaly a Jayhawk is a Kansan that comes into Missouri; then rapes, pillages, and murders.. Not saying it didn't happen both ways but Missouri at least didn't name their freakin football team after it in pride. Thus, I think hating KU is pretty justified.

Like I said, the kids probably didn't even give much thought to the fact that they were going to Columbia before putting on their Orange Bowl shirts. The Mizzou-KU hate mostly flows one way. I got a KU basketball champs shirt for Father's Day, maybe I should take a picture of it and put it in my sig to annoy the Mizzou fans here since KU seems to cause more meltage than goon around here.

I hadn't heard about the red socks thing. Was that an intentional redlegs reference? And are people still personally offended by references to Quantrill and all that anymore? Not exactly current events, and there were atrocities on both sides.

I'm definitely not defending the state of Kansas as whole, just Lawrence. It's like one of those pockets of coolness in an otherwise crappy state, like Austin, TX.

and there were atrocities on both sides.

Like I said.. Missouri didn't name their school the "Mizzou Bushwhackers".