I recently started looking for new job, or rather I uploaded my CV to monster.co.uk and the jobs found me! I had been slogging may way through poorly designed jobsites which make searching for a job quite difficult, until a friend told me about the monster.co.uk cv upload service. Anyway, here I am a week later and following my first interview I was offered a job! It’s exactly what I was looking for, and it will see my salary rising by as much as 36% in the first year. It’s a frugal father victory! (…is that tag line a bit cheesy? Maybe I should have gone with frugaltastic)

It wasn’t an easy decision as I currently live just 6 miles from the office, its a fun place to work, and as a colleague runs me back and to it only costs me £20/month to commute. The new job is a 45 minute train ride away, with a £1700 a year cost attached to it. This is covered by the intial £2k salary increase, but given that in 3-12 months I’m likely to see a £4-9K increase you’ll see why I decided to make the move

I handed in my notice last week, so in 4 weeks  time I’ll by tying up my lose ends and moving onto pastures new. Wish me luck!