FW: question about salary

["SM Rush" <sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com>]

The fact that you really don't want the job has little to do with a
reasonable salary. What the job itself is worth is what's reasonable, and we
can't really say because the job is administrative, not writing/editing.

Where your ambivalence toward the job comes in is if you plan to set a
salary at which it finally becomes worth your while to take a job you don't
want.

For example, you might say, I really want a job as an editor and I'm willing
to work for $30K minimum.  However, if someone offers me a non-editing job
for $40K, then I'd be willing to take that, even though I'm not working in
my field, and every year I don't work in my field is a year of marketable
experience I lose.

This is called going for the bucks (or selling out), or in some cases is a
simple matter of choosing between being employed and being "between jobs".
There's nothing wrong with it, but you should have a clear idea of the
ramifications.

If you take this job and work there for three years and then try to find a
job as an editor, you will still have zero years of editing experience (or
if this job is say 1/3 editing, you'll have one years of experience).  On
top of that, your degree is by then three years distant.
_______________________
sella rush
applied technical systems
silverdale, wa
developers of CCM knowledge discovery


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