Ot: Ethics?
Dang it , now I've got to add my 2 cents. Take the job, and if a better one comes along, take it, and if a better one comes along, take it, and if a better one comes along.... you get the point. Look at yourself as the CEO of You Inc. You are a business, look at it that way. Learn as much as you can, do as much as you can, PUT 15% OR MORE OF YOUR PAY AWAY every year. You don't say how old you are, but if you are young, that will be the best advice you ever recieved. You never know just how a job will turn out until you go there. And I mean go there. Give it 110%(I hate it when people say that). Learn everything you can from anyone who is willing to share their knowledge. Knowledge is the only thing you can take from someone without them ever knowing that it was gone. But not just knowledge, PROFOUND knowledge. That means people that KNOW and DO.
I was just in the job market myself, so I know how you feel. It amazed me how well some people spoke to me over the phone, and then when I got to the plant, it was like a f'ing train wreck!
Then again, some phone calls were cr-p, but I said "what the hell" and went anyway, and they turned out fantastic! I say that job hunting is like going on a blind date. It can go from great to sh-t, or sh-t to great, in a heartbeat! You never know !
I'll share a tidbit from an outplacement guy that was hired by the company to assist us layoffers(new word there). One of my co-workers said he was unsure of finding a new job due to the fact that he was 60 years old. He felt that since he couldn't be sure that he could give 10 or 20 years, that a company wouldn't want him. Well, the outplacement guy laughed, and said that no company today expects you to stay more than two years anyway! So the moral of the story is --------?