Am I being crazy for declining this offer?

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Hi Guys

So I have been job hunting for a while, I have been with my current company since 2011 and looking for greener pastures and a better salary. I mean I'm only 25. Anyway, so I went for an interview at Multichoice last week and today they contacted me with an offer. At the current company I'm at I hold a junior software developer role, it's a full-time job and I get a gross salary of R12.5k, my company pays half of my medical aid, no pension fund so at the end of the day I go home with about R10k. Now MC is offering me R16.5k, mind you it's a contract job with a possibility of being made permanent after one year. Since it's a contract job they are not offering any benefits, so I will have to pay my full medical aid, which in total it's R4742. After that and my tax I think I will be left with roughly R10k. Which is the same with where I am now. Am I crazy for thinking of declining this offer?

I am looking for career advice and I know myBB people are smart and give sound advice. I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance.
 
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So MC are offering you a job that at the end of the day doesn't put you in a better financial position, and has a risk of being over in a year?

The only benefit MC bring to the table in this equation, is that they are a large corporate and you get exposure in that world....

I would be trying to negotiate another R2k out of MC at least before I'd consider that move.

Out of interest, why is your medical aid so high?
 
ToxicBunny said:
So MC are offering you a job that at the end of the day doesn't put you in a better financial position, and has a risk of being over in a year?

The only benefit MC bring to the table in this equation, is that they are a large corporate and you get exposure in that world....

I would be trying to negotiate another R2k out of MC at least before I'd consider that move.

Out of interest, why is your medical aid so high?
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I have my mom as a dependent.
 
ToxicBunny said:
So MC are offering you a job that at the end of the day doesn't put you in a better financial position, and has a risk of being over in a year?

The only benefit MC bring to the table in this equation, is that they are a large corporate and you get exposure in that world....

I would be trying to negotiate another R2k out of MC at least before I'd consider that move.

Out of interest, why is your medical aid so high?
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This.

Put on the table specific skills you have that are worth bumping up the offer a bit and see what they say.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Ok, cool... fair enough :).. just wondering since its high...

Do you REALLY want to work at MC? or was it just an opportunity you followed up on?
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It's an opportunity I followed up on honestly. It seems like a great company to work for though.
 
goth_nerd said:
It's an opportunity I followed up on honestly. It seems like a great company to work for though.
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So it wasn't really a company you were hunting to work for?

If not, then they would have to come to the party financially for it to make sense to move.
 
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