HELP! -Job / Interview Negotiations- Considering a Job with a Competitor! [View All]

[bj2110]

I was contacted out of the blue from one of my company's competitors. I told my superiors immediately & they understood that I wanted to pursue it. I've interviewed twice and have been offered a job making significantly more money.

First, background:
I've been in my current position for about 5 years now, and have had a very positive experience. My salary has increased by about 60% in that time, and although some of my responsibilities have changed, I am still at the same level in the company, one notch below management. They also have been very flexible with me, even keeping me employed to work from home for the last year as my wife and I made the decision to move out of state. However, I have become increasing disengaged and less convinced my current employer is heading in the right direction. This was my first job out of college.

The position with the new company is management. I would have 10 people working in my department and be a part of the company's leadership group (which only consists of 5 people).

My current employer has been floating a different, more lucrative sales position with them in front of me for about 6 months now, but I don't feel we are any closer to finalizing then we were back then.

The new company is behind my current employer by about 6 or 7 years, i.e. my current employer has grown, while the competitor is just beginning to grow. The competitor looks a lot like my current company did 6 or 7 years ago.

I am torn between three options:

1) Demanding from my current employer this new, more lucrative sales position that has been floated in front of me for 6 months.

2) Trusting that my current employer (who has been good to me in the past) will reward me properly and in a reasonable time give the new sales position.

3) Taking the job offer from the competitor.

HELP!