conversation: User (VeryCommonUsername): "Working as a community nurse currently. I absolutely love my job and my hours. I get paid per patient I see and not hourly. It works out that I make ~$36 an hour on an average day. I usually start at 9-10 and finish by 1-2. I love the work as well. I can't take a second job however as I am always on-call until 5 with a small chance of getting a new admission. I barely work weekends and never work nights.\n\n\n\nBeen thinking about transferring to a medsurg unit in the hospital. The pay would be considerably more (15-20k a year if I could find a full-time position.. fairly big if). My schedule would likely be 3 days on 4 days off, 4 days on 3 days off consisting of 12 hour shifts. I'd likely have to work weekends and nights. The job itself is very "meh" to me. Stuck in the same 4 walls all day long, not getting to see and treat many of the amazing things I currently do. I'd see my girlfriend and friends considerably less and have much less time for my hobbies.\n\n\n\nI'm not hurting for money right now whatsoever (6 months worth of expenses tucked away, only spending 20% of my income on rent, but I do plan on going back to school for my Bachelor's so a bit of extra cash to throw into savings couldn't hurt. What would you do?"
  Self: "I'd say it depends on your career path.  I've taken jobs that pay less because it introduced me to a specific skillset I needed to advance my career(Linux in my example) and I've taken jobs that pay more because having the title and experience of a more senior position at a specific company looks great on a resume (IBM in my example).  Don't take a job that pays more now if it pigeon holes you into a career with less possibilities to advance."
  