Company Paid Training? 46
screenbert asks: "My employer has just dropped a bombshell on me. He's offered $50,000 in training over the next year to each person in our group. Yes per person. Normally I wouldn't think twice about it, but he's having legal draw up contracts that will require us to pay for the training if we leave. I'm not really happy with my current employer due to changes company-wide.
I've worked for companies in the past that had programs like this, but never with that kind of money, usually 5-10K. Should I take the training and stick it out for the 3 years, or just put it off?" That's a lot of money to drop in training, but given that it's always wise to keep up your skill set, might this be worth it.
was offered similar but the stipulations were not (Score:2, Informative)
Does the company have multiple locations. One stipulation may be that you have to be willing to move to other locations within the U.S. Read the fine print. The "possiblity" of moving to Kansas did not appeal to me. It was very tempting at the time. Being that the office's where I was at were laid off I wonder if they would have pulled that card, maybe not, but I never had to find out.
Doing some math, if you quit and get a 15k increase, (pretty much my rule of thumb that says its worth changing companies), at a new job x 3 years is 45k potential, if your not at your top end already and there is something out there you can get.
I've been places where it never fails that people don't like their job. I can't say I've worn their shoes or yours but you do have a bit of control on your outlook on work and wether or not you at least can enjoy it enough to want to go to work. I tend to value monetary (money) over un-measureable things (people) as I can generally enjoy shoveling anything if the pay is right and always tend to make a few friends wherever. What are your values, figure them out and get a job that meets 80%-100% of them.