More job hunt dullness

[selenay]

Finally got the second interview set up, but have ended up with a dilemma.

An agency called today about a job that sounds absolutely great, just what I wanted, do I want to apply? Of course I said yes. But I've also been honest and asked how long the recruitment process is likely to take - i.e. will I know within a few days whether they want me for an interview and how soon would they be interviewing? On the one hand, this job is much closer to what I really want to do and I'd be daft to not take the chance.

On the other hand, the other job isn't really what I want to do but I'm at second interview stage and I don't want to turn it down and then find that the other job doesn't pan out. Financially, I can't afford to spend many months more temping and I have this nagging worry that companies won't hire me if I'm out of work for much longer.

On the other hand, I could temp full-time on a perfectly good salary and therefore be able to hold out longer for the good job to come along.

On a fourth hand, what if this is the last time I get an application even to the interview stage? Are employers going to start looking at my CV, see that I graduated five months ago and start asking why I'm still not employed?

On a fifth hand...

You can see whether my worries are going, here *sigh*

Comments

[gmul.livejournal.com]

A job, even if slightly sub-optimal (and which you had been at least OK with the idea of up until this new shiny thing cropped up), is better than no job.

If you get offered other job and take it, as long as you leave within the first month to go to shiny job then the company who hired you first won't have to pay the agent for you (or they'll get a replacement free, kind of thing) so it'll only have cost them their time. And that agency will probably still talk to you, eventually, since they're basically driven by greed and if they can pimp you out again they will.

And you haven't actually been offered anything yet anyway.

So, don't worry, take anything you're offered and don't fret too much about where you end up.

[selenay]

Thanks for the calm words of wisdom and advice. This is the first time that I've done this whole "interviewing for a job with a career attached" and I'm just not clear on what's considered OK and so on. I've always fallen into jobs before so this is a completely new experience.

I'm going ahead and doing what you (and others) have suggested. Although this job isn't perfect, and I've known that from the beginning, it's still much closer to what I want to do than all the financial officer roles that I've been offered and I really just got distracted by the shiny there.

I think the main problem is that I still don't have much confidence in my ability to make the right choices for myself. I stuffed up hugely by ploughing into a degree that I didn't want and wound up leaving uni. Ever since, I've just not had the confidence in myself to feel like I'm making the right decision - I keep wanting to leave myself backing-out room just in case I talk myself into another wrong choice. Except I seem to be talking myself out of the right choices, too.

I've just got to start going for things and trying not to second guess myself all the time.

[gmul.livejournal.com]

While I'm rambling, I don't remember if I mentioned this to you before or not. Time before last that I was looking for a job it was through agencies. I had three on the boil at the same time. On the same day, one decided they didn't want me (fine, I didn't want them either) and two others offered. Whatever else I might have thought about the job I did take, it did have the advantage that the company didn't go bust a few months later.

(I don't think there's any particular moral to that, just thought I'd throw it in anyway :-))

[notsoshygirl.livejournal.com]

Stop it! *g*

[selenay]

*g* Stopping!