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Okay so I have been trying to get a full time position since I started here a year and a half ago. SO why is it that when I finally give up on it happening, like 4 different opportunities fall into my lap? I hate decision making. I don't even like deciding what I am going to eat for dinner and now I have a decision like this to make? Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not ungrateful, it is just that there is no one thing that jumps out as being the best choice. The one I want to do and have been looking for since I started here is the lowest paying one. The highest paying one, I hate the most. The one in the middle paywise is not through the hospital therefore being less secure of a position. The other one I love the boss but I am not sure if I really like the job all that much, but just like her. Ugh I hate decision making.

Sorry just had to get that out.

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BG

There's a tool out there called weighted ranking. It's great for decision making like this.

I'll see if I can find a good website that explains how it works...might take a minute.

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    • Develop a list of criteria. (What you want from your job.)
    • Arrive at a final list of 3-4 criteria that best fit your problem. You can do more if you must. Three isn't enough for me.
    • List the solutions to your problem down the left side of the matrix. These are your potential jobs.
    • Assign a weighted percentage to each of the decision criteria based on importance. The total of all listed criteria must equal 1.0 (e.g., the total of the assigned criteria or weights must equal 100).
      • For example:
        • Criterion 1 = .3 (Insurance)
        • Criterion 2 = .2 (Pay)
        • Criterion 3 = .4 (Flexibility)
        • Criterion 4 = .1 (Prestige)

Therefore, .3 + .2 + .4 + .1 = 1.0 or 100%

    • Assign a numerical rating scale to each alternative. For example: 1= low score, 5 = high score.
    • Evaluate and rate each solution against each criterion by multiplying the rating scale number by the weighted numerical criteria number. (e.g., The weighted criteria is .3 x 5 = 1.5. This is the criteria number (.3) times the assigned alternative rating scale number of 5).
    • Add the weighted values and calculate the final score for each of your proposed problem solutions.
    • Select the alternative with the highest score.

BG it's dorky, and but it works. Or just pretend I didn't say a word.

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and but...

If you want to talk it through I have time this afternoon or you can send me lists and I'll ask you questions etc and make your sheet for you.

Ahhhhhhhhh business school. I love heart this shit.

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Damn J - that's an awfully rational approach. I usually just assign one outcome to "head" and flip a coin. If my response is "ehh, that's okay" then i go with the wisdom of the coin, and if I wish that it was best two out of three, then I know that the other outcome is the one I desire most... :mad:

Might explain why I'm not all wound up about all of the unresolved dependencies of my potential upcoming move...

On the other hand, when I'm playing atillia, I can weigh the factors with the best of 'em...

Funny, sometimes I mix the two - i'm not wound up about maybe moving, but i have this exhaustive list of criteria for whether to accept a hopefully forthcoming job offer from one of several potential new employers (some of whom do not yet know that their company is doomed to failure without me...)

B

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B,

That came from a decision making and problem solving class.

You know I'm holding my breath to see what you and your wife decide about the move...

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he's getting action from his new honey...you know what Chris Rock says about new adult relations.....

He'll be back when he comes up for air.

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BG I am hearting you fully right now. I've just made a pot of Sleepy Time tea.

I got on such a tea jag for right when I got banded and for the last 2 months have pretty much stopped. I don't want caffine and went for the green box with the Teddy Bears. I forgot all about how much I loved that tea until you told JC about it. Of course I bought it way back then (like on page 40)...

It made me think of you guys. :o

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