I am in accounting, and am currently an accountant at a regional construction company about 35 minutes from where I live. I love my job, everything about it, except I am not being paid what I feel I'm worth. That is it.
Fast forward a year and a half, and I've since passed my CPA and have gotten a small raise, and decent year end bonuses. I started to wonder what else was out there. I found and applied for a position at a very large conpany, Director of Operations, Supply Chain Management. It's “in the realm” of what I went to school for, but not Finance and Accounting, but it would pay roughly $35k more per year, and is literally 3 minutes from my house. My wife works there too, but in a complete different department and location. I applied about 2 months ago.
Within the first week of applying, I was told that I was not chosen to even interview, because I didn't match what they were looking for. My wife told me she had spoke with someone in the department I had applied for, and they had 2 candidates that they wanted that had applied, and that likely played a role in that as well. I was talking with a friend, and she knew about a Controller position where she is working (this is exactly in the same industry of what my degree and CPA is intended). I applied for it, interviewed that week, and was offered the position the following week. I accepted, and the pay is about $29k more than where I am at currently. It's 45 minutes away, but that doesn't bother me in the least. This was all 2 weeks ago.
Skip ahead to today, and I get a phone call from the company about the Director of Operations, Supply Chain Management position, wanting to set up an interview. It is an initial live video chat setup for the interview. I'm going to set up the interview, just because I feel I have nothing to lose, but I feel that they are being awfully shady on something, but what, I'm not sure.
Just wanting some opinions/advice as to what others think, and also, if familiar with the Accounting Industry, or just in general, if taking slightly less money now as a Controller, would pay off more in the future than the Director of Operations, Supply Chain Management position (I'm of the belief it would), as both companies are roughly the same size, and both are in the same industry of operations.
Thank you in advance!