Help?

[tzikeh]

I need advice.

My manager came to me today and pretty much begged me to work one more week. I told her flat-out no. She then offered to pay me a full week's salary for doing bare-bones work updating the schedules and index pages, which I can do from home.

Cons: Still working after I'd planned on not working. Interfering with plan of lazing about (will have to get up and do about 2 hours of work every morning). Makes me ... vaguely weird because I *know* I'll be checking my email to see if there's other work I need to do.

Pros: One more full week's pay for 2 hours of work per day.

Thoughts?

Comments

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

I basically agree with everyone who has already commented. What I'd add is that the whole reason you are quitting the job now in the first place is that you don't need money, so the draw of a full week's pay for ten hours of work is less than it used to be. That's a hard mindset to get into--as jorit says, more savings is always better, and that's true until you hit Bill Gates-ish levels; but it's worth remembering that you don't need that money. Don't let the money make the decision for you.

On the other hand, more money is always a good thing, and you did feel bad about leaving them so screwed even if they did largely screw themselves (and, yes, you), so if you can trust them -- and yourself -- to hold to the ten hours a week agreement, then I say go for it.