My plan was simple – I would apply at a rival company, and then hopefully use that to pressure my boss into giving me a raise.
I love my job, but the pay is garbage.
I hoped that by threatening to leave the boss would make a counter offer to keep me here. My plan blew up in my face, and my boss patted me on the back and wished me well in my future endeavors. This is a bummer, because I don’t want to work for a major HVAC corporation. On the other hand, the offer they made me is pretty amazing, so I would be an idiot to pass it over. By working for a major HVAC company I will lose a lot of the freedom I get at my current job, not to mention they drug test so I will have to figure out how to pass that. It’s too late to go back, though, because if I stay at my old HVAC job my boss knows that he will never have to give me a raise ever. It’s hard to do your best work if you know that there will never be any money, so if I had it to do over again I would never have applied to the major HVAC corporation. If I can pass the drug test, I will start off with a base pay almost twice what I’m making now, so any concessions I have to make to the new HVAC company will probably be worth it. I will really miss my old job, though.