Full Time with Promotion, or Stay Part Time?

[Cole227]

I am 19 and working part time at my digital marketing job. (24 hrs/week) at 13 dollars per hour. The ecommerce manager / marketer above me has found a new job. I am the most fit candidate for the job. It would be salary of 40k a year and full time.

I live at home and have saved enough money to start a business idea worth pursuing. Do I go full time to save money and gain extra experience? Or do I stay part time and dive deep into my business.

I have used the (WADM) WEIGHTRD AVERAGE DECISION MAKING from the book and part time came out on top. Any advice would help thanks!

 

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[Odysseus M Jones]

What stage are you at with your business?

PS how dare you second guess the WADM LOL

 

[SharpeningBlade]

I am 19 and working part time at my digital marketing job. (24 hrs/week) at 13 dollars per hour. The ecommerce manager / marketer above me has found a new job. I am the most fit candidate for the job. It would be salary of 40k a year and full time.

I live at home and have saved enough money to start a business idea worth pursuing. Do I go full time to save money and gain extra experience? Or do I stay part time and dive deep into my business.

I have used the (WADM) WEIGHTRD AVERAGE DECISION MAKING from the book and part time came out on top. Any advice would help thanks!

If by full time, you mean working 60-70 hours per week but getting 40k, you are going to come out making less per hour and probably would not be worth it.

If it's a strict 40-hour a week type thing, that's only 2 hrs extra per day so I'd say its worth it..

Getting management experience this early on in your career can make an influence on your trajectory, and can give you more clout in executing your business and making connections. Who would you rather trust, someone who has management exp and is figuring out their business, or someone who doesn't and is figuring out their business?

You can always try the marketing manager job and quit if you don't like it, but who knows when this opportunity will come up again to be so young and have a chance at management.

If you are living at home and not paying much bills, I'd say take the bump in pay, and cut out all unnecessary friendships / distractions, and when you get home from work just grind on your business. Funnel half of the extra money you earn into your business, save the other half.

Quit the marketing job when you are consistently making more per month from the business. Or keep it and stack $ faster.

Or, don't take any of this advice and do what you feel is best.

Ultimately, what matters, is execution.