Hey everyone, if you had a choice between getting the job that you have always wanted and good money, amazing company etc but it would also mean that you would have to move away from family, see all your close friends less and have to start agian, maybe if i have to live in the center of london it would mean maybe having to lose my zed :cry:.

 

If you were in my boots what would you do?

 

Thanks, Murt

Hey everyone, if you had a choice between getting the job that you have always wanted and good money, amazing company etc but it would also mean that you would have to move away from family, see all your close friends less and have to start agian, maybe if i have to live in the center of london it would mean maybe having to lose my zed :cry:.

 

If you were in my boots what would you do?

 

Thanks, Murt

 

Dont do it murty:cry: There will be other job opportunities, you love that zed;)

I'd move....

 

your career is your future... If you land a good job now that you are young.... you'll be set for life.

 

You can always visit your family on weekends.... its not like you're moving a million miles away!

 

If it doesnt work out, you can always go back - don't get rid of the zed the day you walk out, leave it for a month or so to make sure its the right job.

I'd move....

 

your career is your future... If you land a good job now that you are young.... you'll be set for life.

 

You can always visit your family on weekends.... its not like you're moving a million miles away!

 

If it doesnt work out, you can always go back - don't get rid of the zed the day you walk out, leave it for a month or so to make sure its the right job.

 

Excellent advice from Athene...I am just being selfish cos your my mate murty and wana keep ya in the SW,lol:D

Dont do it murty:cry: There will be other job opportunities, you love that zed;)

 

I think i would live closer to london but not in london so i could keep the zed

 

I'd move....

 

your career is your future... If you land a good job now that you are young.... you'll be set for life.

 

You can always visit your family on weekends.... its not like you're moving a million miles away!

 

If it doesnt work out, you can always go back - don't get rid of the zed the day you walk out, leave it for a month or so to make sure its the right job.

 

Thats the way im looking at it right now, thanks athene

Move. Good job, good money opens up lots of opportunities. You can always move back if you don't like it. You'd hate yourself if you looked back in the future and wished you'd done it.

Do it... you have nothing to lose,

 

It works - you stay

it doesnt - you go back

 

Check me right, I packed my bags and moved thousands of miles away not knowing what I'd find in the UK - I'd never been here before and just landed with a 6 month old little girl. Thankfully I had friends who I stayed with for a while, but 4 years later - I've got a brilliant job, rent a house, got the zed - it might take a while for you to settle down, but its only a couple of hundred miles away if its not what you want...

Its only 100 odd miles anyway from where murt lives, go for it murt:)

Ya go for it and live on the out skirts,some nice areas around london and keep the Z of course ;)

Do it.

 

You don't want to spend the rest of your life saying "What if".

 

You can always go back if it don't work out.

 

Just one of those cross roads in life.

 

Good luck with it.

 

Darrell

I'd move....

 

your career is your future... If you land a good job now that you are young.... you'll be set for life.

 

You can always visit your family on weekends.... its not like you're moving a million miles away!

 

If it doesnt work out, you can always go back - don't get rid of the zed the day you walk out, leave it for a month or so to make sure its the right job.

 

as said on msn matey... i totally agree with athene. if there is no opportunity like this at home then you would be a fool not to take it. your real friends will stay good friends no matter how far away you are and you will soon make a new circle of friends. you will need to break away from your family one day but in all fairness you are only a short distance away in times of need.

 

as you said, this is your dream job, big bucks in your chosen field. if you take it and dont like it... you go home and have lost nothing whilst still gaining valuable experience for a top company on your cv. if you take it and realise that you have the best lifestyle in the world, you gained everything!

 

london is a daunting place to live and work, but give it a shot, you might just like it. as for the zed, well i know its easy for me to say but you cannot and must not let it ruin your future. im all for living for the moment and all that but this is a big fork in the road for you... just think in a few years your 30k job matures to a 60k job... you then have 2 zeds parked on your driveway in your bristol home!

 

all in my opinion though chap and its all your decision but without sounding patronising, most of us have all been in the same situation so i would listen carefully to what people around you are saying.

 

HTH

dam it took me so long to type all that that every1 else has jumped in and stolen my sensibleness originality...

 

new plan... stuff the job, keep the zed and all your mates, mcdonalds are now doing a levels :wack:

as said on msn matey... i totally agree with athene. if there is no opportunity like this at home then you would be a fool not to take it. your real friends will stay good friends no matter how far away you are and you will soon make a new circle of friends. you will need to break away from your family one day but in all fairness you are only a short distance away in times of need.

 

as you said, this is your dream job, big bucks in your chosen field. if you take it and dont like it... you go home and have lost nothing whilst still gaining valuable experience for a top company on your cv. if you take it and realise that you have the best lifestyle in the world, you gained everything!

 

london is a daunting place to live and work, but give it a shot, you might just like it. as for the zed, well i know its easy for me to say but you cannot and must not let it ruin your future. im all for living for the moment and all that but this is a big fork in the road for you... just think in a few years your 30k job matures to a 60k job... you then have 2 zeds parked on your driveway in your bristol home!

 

all in my opinion though chap and its all your decision but without sounding patronising, most of us have all been in the same situation so i would listen carefully to what people around you are saying.

 

HTH

great advice but wtf would you want to live in bristol!!:x::tongue::rofl::rofl:

dam it took me so long to type all that that every1 else has jumped in and stolen my sensibleness originality...

 

new plan... stuff the job, keep the zed and all your mates, mcdonalds are now doing a levels :wack:

 

 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

dam it took me so long to type all that that every1 else has jumped in and stolen my sensibleness originality...

 

new plan... stuff the job, keep the zed and all your mates, mcdonalds are now doing a levels :wack:

 

Typing lessons for joel.

 

Must have been on the sauce as well as he is talking sence. :rofl:

 

Darrell

great advice but wtf would you want to live in bristol!!:x::tongue::rofl::rofl:

 

Hey i like bristol, i live here currently and its a nice place, i was down bournmouth other day and there is nothing to do there! Extremely boring lol

Hey i like bristol, i live here currently and its a nice place, i was down bournmouth other day and there is nothing to do there! Extremely boring lol

 

oi watch it shunshine... i lived in bournemouth for 3 years before i moved here for this job and it was the nuts! top place to live

I emailed off my CV, lets just hope i get the job =)

I'd do it, you can always buy new friends later.

 

 

 

 

No hang on, did I get that right? You can buy a new Zed later :rofl: ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seriously, good luck in whatever path you choose.

Live with cockneys???? nah not even for Bill Gates's job :D:D

Forgot to mention that the PA to the CIO (the head of the department you will work in if you get the job) is from Bristol and is always going back to see her mother and sister.

 

I decided to stay in Northamptonshire and travel to London each day, my assistant moved down from Cumbia in April and shares a flat on the east of London and loves it.

 

If I was you I would go for it but I am biased because I already work there !

Come mingle with us londoners ;) Be prepared for the stress of the big bad city.

Take the job, if you dont like it you can quite and move back to your old life.

Forgot to mention that the PA to the CIO (the head of the department you will work in if you get the job) is from Bristol and is always going back to see her mother and sister.

 

I decided to stay in Northamptonshire and travel to London each day, my assistant moved down from Cumbia in April and shares a flat on the east of London and loves it.

 

If I was you I would go for it but I am biased because I already work there !

 

Oh thats nice to know i wont only be the only west country person there :)

 

Well i sent off my cv to you, lets hope the company likes it

You may like it in the short term but london is not even what it used to be a few years ago keep away from the dirty hole, in the end it ends up chewing most peope up and spitting them out, if you want to get in make some big cash and get out fast though then maybe its for the best. Whatever you do, do it in the best interests of you and your family for the future.

Hey everyone, if you had a choice between getting the job that you have always wanted and good money, amazing company etc but it would also mean that you would have to move away from family, see all your close friends less and have to start agian, maybe if i have to live in the center of london it would mean maybe having to lose my zed :cry:.

 

If you were in my boots what would you do?

 

Thanks, Murt

 

Have done that 3 times now. Easier when you're younger. Grab the opportunity by the horns, it may never come round again. I moved to Worcester (Malvern) about a year after uni as I got a job with the MOD. At the time, it was quite difficult, but I made some friends up there and settled down. Had a great 3 years up there. Got paid loads of money, had a nice house, went abroad all the time.

 

One of the guys I made friends with is now one of my closest friends.

 

Even now, I'm not adverse to change. Plan on eventually settling in the USA.

 

Not sure I'd ever want to move to the centre of London though. I've worked in and around London before and whilst I quite like the suburbs, I would find the centre a little overwhelming at times if I had to live there, plus I love being by the countryside. London's too claustraphobic for me.

 

I'm quite often in London as my cousin has a house in Kensington and my Mum's sister lives in Ealing. Have family in Twickenham and other parts of the outskirts.