Our Program Office Manager is leaving and with her departure, her position is vacated and is posted on the memo board. Life should usually go on...but not for me this time.

I had an unexpected call from the Program Director, offering the job to me.  I am a Contracts Admin. I don't do office admin... totally different and something I would not have even considered. But he said when Maggie told him she was moving, he thought about me immediately.  He said I was perfect for the job, etc...etc...

I was flattered, of course, but I declined.  And I didn't sleep that night, thinking that perhaps I was too hasty in my rejection of the offer.  I am not a secretary  and for the life of me, I could not even begin to imagine what it is that goes on in a program office manager's world.  If it is what I think it is, I don't want it.

I've been with this company for 5 years and I love my job.  I love the people I work with, love my little cluttered office and my little cluttered desk... I never thought that I will have to come to a crossroad and choose to travel a new path or continue on my navigated course.

PROS AND CONS or CONS and PROS: (whichever)
1) long term job for whoever is in the Program office while the construction program (where I am) will be demobilized at the end of our productive period - give or take, 10 years.
2) no additional compensation. lateral move
3) dead end job - for both positions.  Although I carry a plethora of talents that may open up another opportunity for me in another realm.
4) I am not secretary material, never claimed to be... but my other qualifications may be sufficient to make anyone consider me anyway which is what I'm sure happened.
5) don't like to be a secretary - which is what this position is - but on a glorified level.

So should I stay or should I go? If I stay, I'm out on the street looking for a job when Construction's uselife expires. If I go, I will feel as if I have been demoted, probably hate my job but I will have a guaranteed paycheck until I retire 25 years from now.

My hubby says to go. He just wants to make sure I help bring the bacon home. My gut feeling says "you've got to be kidding!"
Decisions...decisions....decisions.... and I have until tomorrow to decide.

the end of my carefree moments loom before me.