Both spineless and sublime

I have as much backbone as a dishcloth. I arrived at work today to be greeted by my district manager and my store manager who wanted to have a chat with me about why I don’t want to take the assistant manager’s job. I explained to them that it’s mainly financial and that it breaks down like this:1.To get to Asia and Australia in October of next year I need to save €80 per week to get the money I need for my flight and agency fee. This amount would also leave me with a comfortable cushion if things don’t work out.2. To save €80 a week while paying rent, buying food and living at least a little comfortably I need to be making at least over €300 before tax. 3. My plan has been to stay in Video Drama working enough part time hours to earn the €80 and to get another full time job to cover everything else. No other job would be as flexible as Video Drama for part time work so I thought I had it all figured out.They, however, had some counter points which made me think:1. They are offering me a guaranteed 40 hours per week, all evening shifts (I prefer working evenings) or my choice of a mix of both, managers bonus and premium and a promise that I will never have to do an evening shift or lock up alone. All of this will be added to my contract.2. I would be making €306 before tax. They pointed out that if I had a second job my income would push me into a higher tax bracket and I wouldn’t come out with much more than €20 extra despite much more work.3. I’ve done the job before, I can do it with my eyes closed and I would only have two extra duties that I don’t already cover (time sheets and alarm calls).I’m going to think about it and give them an answer on Monday but I’m definitely leaning towards taking it now. What do you guys think?On a lighter note I got my Bettie Page print from budplant on eBay today and I’m chuffed with it. It was the limited print that came free with the first 1100 copies of Queen of Hearts. Hurrah for me! I recommend this budplant guy to anyone, he was great to deal with and his catalogue is pretty cool too.