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Should I commit to a job I cannot afford to keep?
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An agency is submitting me to a job that has plenty of upsides, except for the pay. The jobs I typically get, and the ones I've been applying to lately, pay about twice what this one does. I will have serious financial problems if I accept this job and stay there a long time.
The job is nominally temp-to-perm. Normally, I'd be willing to take the job, do my best work, and discreetly look for a more substantial job on my off-hours. If I got another job, I'd give the appropriate notice and try to make my leaving as painless to them as possible.
However, the agency that submitted me feels that "temp-to-perm" means it really will go permanent. (I guess that's happened in the past.) They want to tell the client that I'd be committed to their job.
So even if I think I could ace the interview, and allay all their fears about being "overqualified", I'm not sure if I should even take interview if I intend to keep looking for a better paying job. And if I do, it would be with the understanding that I won't be looking for other work.
(There's a chance I could address my money issues by getting a second job night and/or weekends, but the agency doesn't even want the client to know that. It would make me sound less than committed.)
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An agency is submitting me to a job that has plenty of upsides, except for the pay. The jobs I typically get, and the ones I've been applying to lately, pay about twice what this one does. I will have serious financial problems if I accept this job and stay there a long time.
The job is nominally temp-to-perm. Normally, I'd be willing to take the job, do my best work, and discreetly look for a more substantial job on my off-hours. If I got another job, I'd give the appropriate notice and try to make my leaving as painless to them as possible.
However, the agency that submitted me feels that "temp-to-perm" means it really will go permanent. (I guess that's happened in the past.) They want to tell the client that I'd be committed to their job.
So even if I think I could ace the interview, and allay all their fears about being "overqualified", I'm not sure if I should even take interview if I intend to keep looking for a better paying job. And if I do, it would be with the understanding that I won't be looking for other work.
(There's a chance I could address my money issues by getting a second job night and/or weekends, but the agency doesn't even want the client to know that. It would make me sound less than committed.)
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so ... you want to know... what to do? or do you want to know what to consider when making up your mind? or you want to discuss at the interview how you will keep looking for another job, or... what?
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An agency is submitting me to a job that has plenty of upsides, except for the pay. The jobs I typically get, and the ones I've been applying to lately, pay about twice what this one does. I will have serious financial problems if I accept this job and stay there a long time.
The job is nominally temp-to-perm. Normally, I'd be willing to take the job, do my best work, and discreetly look for a more substantial job on my off-hours. If I got another job, I'd give the appropriate notice and try to make my leaving as painless to them as possible.
However, the agency that submitted me feels that "temp-to-perm" means it really will go permanent. (I guess that's happened in the past.) They want to tell the client that I'd be committed to their job.
So even if I think I could ace the interview, and allay all their fears about being "overqualified", I'm not sure if I should even take interview if I intend to keep looking for a better paying job. And if I do, it would be with the understanding that I won't be looking for other work.
(There's a chance I could address my money issues by getting a second job night and/or weekends, but the agency doesn't even want the client to know that. It would make me sound less than committed.)
interviewing salary contracting
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An agency is submitting me to a job that has plenty of upsides, except for the pay. The jobs I typically get, and the ones I've been applying to lately, pay about twice what this one does. I will have serious financial problems if I accept this job and stay there a long time.
The job is nominally temp-to-perm. Normally, I'd be willing to take the job, do my best work, and discreetly look for a more substantial job on my off-hours. If I got another job, I'd give the appropriate notice and try to make my leaving as painless to them as possible.
However, the agency that submitted me feels that "temp-to-perm" means it really will go permanent. (I guess that's happened in the past.) They want to tell the client that I'd be committed to their job.
So even if I think I could ace the interview, and allay all their fears about being "overqualified", I'm not sure if I should even take interview if I intend to keep looking for a better paying job. And if I do, it would be with the understanding that I won't be looking for other work.
(There's a chance I could address my money issues by getting a second job night and/or weekends, but the agency doesn't even want the client to know that. It would make me sound less than committed.)
interviewing salary contracting
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so ... you want to know... what to do? or do you want to know what to consider when making up your mind? or you want to discuss at the interview how you will keep looking for another job, or... what?
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so ... you want to know... what to do? or do you want to know what to consider when making up your mind? or you want to discuss at the interview how you will keep looking for another job, or... what?
– bharal
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so ... you want to know... what to do? or do you want to know what to consider when making up your mind? or you want to discuss at the interview how you will keep looking for another job, or... what?
– bharal
8 mins ago
so ... you want to know... what to do? or do you want to know what to consider when making up your mind? or you want to discuss at the interview how you will keep looking for another job, or... what?
– bharal
8 mins ago
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so ... you want to know... what to do? or do you want to know what to consider when making up your mind? or you want to discuss at the interview how you will keep looking for another job, or... what?
– bharal
8 mins ago