Crazy Job Situation: What Would You Do?

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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

This. Under no circumstances should you decline the college job (unless you like your current job better). You should also not tell them you need time to decide - they'll just hire someone else.

You should not feel bad for potentially accepting the college job, only to leave a couple weeks later to accept the advertising job. Companies have absolutely no loyalty to their employees. You can work somewhere for years and be laid off at a moments notice. The people you work with might feel bad, but the company wont. By the same token, you dont owe any of these companies anything.

Unless, you give them "your word" that you'll stay there for a certain amount of time, you should have no qualms about accepting the college job and leaving for something better.

I agree. I took a job once and the first two weeks my new boss was actually out of town. I was there for two more weeks before I quit.

Reason I quit was a week after I was hired by this company, ESPN called me. Few weeks of talking with ESPN and the rest was history.

So I mean I didn't know when I took the first job that I'd get an offer less than a month later from ESPN but I'm not turning that offer down.

I went in and told my boss this new offer had just come up and I was planning to take it...and he was pissed. "You're a sell out" "Remember karma is a bitch" "I was going to take you under my wing and mentor you" (He was the company CEO)

Yeah, that'll entice me to stay

Bottom line though-worry about yourself first and foremost