Choosing Between Job Offers; Any Hindsight?

[larson]

Likely taking the second job. It's significantly more money, more exposure to a range of network technologies.

The first job is just too limited; small company, only working with one infrastructure vendor and a few managed applications. If both job specs were similar I'd take the first one without a doubt, but hardly seems worth passing up on a better role overall than limiting myself just to get into the oil&gas industry, which seemed to be the recommend choice from replies in this thread.

Maybe I'm missing something that has remained unsaid though...

[SueEllen]

Likely taking the second job. It's significantly more money, more exposure to a range of network technologies.

The first job is just too limited; small company, only working with one infrastructure vendor and a few managed applications. If both job specs were similar I'd take the first one without a doubt, but hardly seems worth passing up on a better role overall than limiting myself just to get into the oil&gas industry, which seemed to be the recommend choice from replies in this thread.

Maybe I'm missing something that has remained unsaid though...

So you don't want to get into a lucrative industry then?

[larson]

So you don't want to get into a lucrative industry then?

I've not got a huge amount of savings right now. The company are offering a flat £45k with no car allowance. The other company are offering salary+car of around the £60k mark. Surely that's enough reason to take the second job? I have to relocate, and the hassles involved with that. I mainly stay a bit West of Edinburgh, so it's not a quick trip to Aberdeen, and is on par with the job in the Midlands.

Most of the jobs in my area in Aberdeen focus on the NOC side of things, and although this one doesn't, I have concerns. For example, when I asked a random worker about training, they mentioned it had been so busy in the past year, they hadn't had a chance to do anything. Could be an excuse for their laziness, or could have been serious.

Don't know about you, but I prefer a life outside of work too. I think the lucrative side of oil&gas is in the business management for profit generating, not the infrastructure development and support.

Most of the jobs in my area don't seem lucrative up in Aberdeen, if going by the job adverts for the last 2 years are anything to go by.

Does anybody here work in Aberdeen?