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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you’re considering leaving unstable job 1 in high COL city to take unstable job 2 - for the LESS pay - in another, high COL city where you’d be away from your wife and kid for 4 years? How is this even a question? [/quote]

I mean current job has admin intent on eliminating.

The new job is “unstable” only that it’s in a tech company, which are inherently less stable than gov work. The company has been around 20 years and many people I’ve interviewed with have been working there for nearly a decade. I won’t feel stable in any private industry job in current “make it all AI” era…

But the job has significant growth potential — unlike Fed jobs which have been capped.

I don’t love it, but DW wants to quit her job and my job is likely ending — so you say I stay put until RIF, let her be breadwinner in job she hates, and then hope I can find some kind of work locally even for much less pay?[/quote]

But you're focused on not moving your daughter. You didn't present the situation of you taking the job, your wife quitting and moving the whole family. If you can all move, then it's a calculated risk. If you're going to work across the country while your wife quits her local job to stay home with your high schooler (...?), that makes less sense. If she hates her job so much but you can't move, you should both be looking for new stuff locally. [/quote]

They’re hedging here. Maybe if the wife loses her job they will leave. His new job just isn’t secure enough (btw I’m in tech and it sounds plenty secure to me…I’m assuming it’s public? Look for WARN notices to see if there have been layoffs and look at the risks and financials in their 10-K and listen to their most recent quarterly investor call to get a better sense of their business model) and doesn’t pay well enough to justify the disruption. I do think that both parties should be applying to jobs in the same place, so maybe OP keeps applying to DC jobs and their spouse applies to DC and SF jobs. If the kids were grown then it would be different, but they’re not and what you are planning with two households sounds very challenging. [/quote]

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