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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.

Well, the bizarre follow up to this story is that they did call me back a little while ago and offer me another job at higher pay.

It would have been a significant pay increase, and I'm unhappy in my current job, but I actually turned it down.

I seriously don't know what I was thinking, so I could use some feedback on this.

Part of me really, really, really wanted to take the job -- mainly for the money and to get away from my current job.  But my husband was convinced I'd be unhappy.  There were some out-of-the-ordinary features of the job.  There were perks, too, but my fear (and my husband's fear) was that there were no boundaries.

It could be great, with lots of time off.  Or it could be long hours.  I'd have little say in any of it because I'd basically agree to be available whenever they needed me, for whatever hours they needed me.  In return, I'd get time off during down time.

I don't know if I feel regret or if I feel just frustrated with the entire job-hunting game.  I wanted to take the job.  And this time, they did offer me more money, but I just couldn't get my head around whether I'd actually be happy at the job.

And the pretty big downside to the job is that there would be very little mobility (if any).  It's a small office with very defined roles, so once I took the job, there'd be nowhere to go, no possibility to move around.

I keep going over it in my head and thinking, geesh, from an objective perspective, it would have been a great move for me.  I'm not in a high-demand field.

But I had some very real fears -- fears that I'd get into the job and feel stuck the way I feel stuck now, just with more money.  I also feared some cultural aspects of the office and the reality that once I learned the daily tasks (which would be pretty much the same forever), there'd be no opportunity to learn other skills or grow.

It would be a secure job (it's not going anywhere ever), so I'd have job security for the next 20 years, but I'd be doing the same thing.  No new projects.  No new skills.  [/quote]

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