Take a promotion or not?

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I'd have to evaluate my career plan and not worry so much about short term pros/cons as I would long term pros/cons.

I.e. can you sustain working weekends if it means more career growth? What are the possibilities after you are promoted? Can you afford to pass on those based on a short-term concerns?

Really not enough details to say what I would do--but those are the things that I would consider in my decision making process.

 

[barkley]

I would never turn down a promotion. While this step is going to require less favorable hours and not a large increase all promotions are merely stepping stones along a career path. The faster you take it the faster you can take the next step and get back to the favorable hours. Even a lateral move that puts you in a more advantageous career path is a good idea. It is like going from the 10th step of a 10 step ladder to the 10th step of a 15 step ladder.

I can speak for my office but anyone who turns down a promotion shows a lack of ambition and most are weeded out of the company one way or another. It may be different with the government, but in the private sector it would be like installing your own glass ceiling.

This is at least what I would do, what you should is up to you.

in government it would'nt nesc. reflect negativly to not take a promotion b/c generaly when you're on a list it means that you are at the point where you've qualified for the promotion but you would still have to do a competative interview against a certain number of candidates for any opening that comes available (and we had lists that were generated but b/c of funding or vacancies that never got final approval noone ever got even the chance to interview before the list expired a year or more down the road).

i don't know how it works for the feds, but with the gov. agency i was with if you ranked high enough on the list to get a call for vacancies you had the right to waive up to 3 times before you were removed from the list (and people frequently did esp. if an individual vacancy had hours/location they found undesirable). the interviewing supervisors were not privey to whom had turned down the opportunity to interview, it was all handled through h/r.


lateral moves unless they offer a huge benefit (better hours, better work location, some kind of work experience that greatly differs from what a person is currently doing such that it gives them better/different skills) were a disadvantage where i worked. as the newest person in the unit you became the lowest person on the totem pole seniority wise for vacations, better work hours, sought after trainings and the like.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Something else to consider is are you planning on moving on up in the future? If so, take it and run with it. Put in for something else later and move up again.

 

[Uuaww]

Would you mind telling us what your job is? Or at least what agency? I know how mine works but I work for Customs and Border Protection.