Are You Ready To Be A Manger? On this week's show we have a good back and forth discussion about the pros and cons of hustling your way up the corporate ladder. With help from an article on Mashable, How to Know If Becoming a Manager Is Right for You, we work our way through 5 questions you should answer before kicking, clawing, and scratching your way into the *comfortable world of middle management:

1. Do you love meetings?
2. Do you like to teach or coach?
3. How are your feedback skills?
4. Does conflict make you cringe?
5. Are you the good cop or bad cop?

Along the way, WIM stumbles on a patent-pending formula for deciding which job will make you the happiest. Please do not steal, we will sue you. We look forward to it!

The TGOS Career Happiness Formula (Beta Testing): Which career should you choose?

Step 1: Know The Formula: Career Happiness Score = #1. pay; rank pay offered on a scale of 1-10 x (estimate how "valuable" pay/income is in your life on a scale of 0-1 with 0 being "not important at all" and 1 being "extremely important" aka ".20") + 2. work life balance x (.20) + 3. management role/career advancement x (.20) + 4. career benefits i.e. personal/health insurance, etc x (.20) + 5. personal happiness and fulfillment x (.20)

Step 2: On a scale of 1-10 score each of the 5 categories listed above on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being "horrible" and 10 being "great" based on your career or job offer. On a scale of 1-10, where does your career/job offer rank in these categories?

• Category 1: Pay/Income (1-10?)
• Category 2: Work Life Balance (1-10?)
• Category 3: Management Roles/Career Advancement Opportunities (1-10?)
• Category 4: Benefits (1-10?)
• Category 5: Personal Happiness and Fulfillment (1-10?)

Step 3: If applicable, adjust the scale to most accurately reflect the "percentage of happiness" you guestimate each category will bring to your life in parenthesis. One a scale of 0-1, how valuable are the following to you?

• Pay/Income? (0-100%?)
• Work Life Balance (0-100%?)
• Management Roles/Career Advancement Opportunities (0-100%)
• Benefits (0-100%?)
• My Job Provides Me Personal Happiness and Fulfillment (0-100%)

Step 4: Solve for your own 'Career Happiness Score'

Step 5: The Career Choice with the highest 'Career Happiness Score' will, in theory, make you the most happiness.

Example Application:

Career #1: Jane Doe currently makes $100,000. Jane isn't motivated by money but she knows money matters. While important, Jane would prefer to have a higher work life balance in a career that gives her more personal fulfillment. Her current job doesn't offer her any personal fulfillment and the work life balance is horrible. When she started, she was warned that in the beginning she will have to travel a lot and work long hours away from her family and friends. Originally, the company assured her there was an opportunity for career advancement in the near future (2-3 years), but Jane has been with her job for 5 years now and it looks like nothing will change anytime soon. Lastly, based on her research and conversations with friends, her current job does offer great health benefits.

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Job Offer #2: Jane has a pending job offer of $50,000. The potential company offers a great work life balance (flex scheduling, work from home, and is rated consistently rated by employees as one of the the "top 100" companies to work for. She will never have to travel but there is minimal opportunity within the company for advancement in this specific career track. However, Jane already works in an "in demand" field and she believes that transferring or promoting with another company in the future wouldn't be a problem. The new job's benefits are practically non-existent and the out of pocket premiums are much higher.

Using the BRILLIANT patent-pending 'Career Happiness Formula' she heard about on TGOSPodcast Episode 085, Jane decides to guestimate which job might potentially make her the happiest by quantifying what appears to be subjective variables. She comes up with the following:

Offer #1 - Career Happiness Score: 6.7

The Formula: #1. pay = 10 (.20) + 2. work life balance = 1(.50) + 3. management role/career advancement = 7(.20) + 4. career benefits i.e. personal/health insurance, etc = 10(.20) + 5. personal happiness and fulfillment = 1(.80)

[To copy and paste this formula directly into Excel use: "=10*(0.2)+1*(0.5)+7*(0.2)+10*(0.2)+1*(0.8)"]

Offer #2 - Career Happiness Score: 13.7

The Formula: #1. pay = 5(.20) + 2. work life balance = 9(.50) + 3. management role/career advancement 0(.20) + 4. career benefits i.e. personal/health insurance, etc = 5(.20) + 5. personal happiness and fulfillment 9(.80)

[To copy and paste this formula directly into Excel use: "=5*(0.2)+9*(0.5)+0*(0.2)+5*(0.2)+9*(0.8)"]

If you were Jane Doe, which job would you take? What adjustments to the formula would you make? Leave your responses in the comment section below, Tweet your responses using the official #TGOS hashtag on Twitter, or @ us directly with your thoughts @TGOSPodcast.

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