I have about a week to decide between a fulltime (but contract) position in MN (barely within commuting distance)and a parttime job that will provide no health insurance and not enough money to live on, in my adopted hometown (also a terrible commute).
I vacillate by the hour. There are a lot of non-career factors: the chance to be closer to family and friends after 5 years away; living in our own home again (and not throwing away the capital gains exclusion upon sale); not having to deal this summer with either the rental market or the sale of the house out there.
I guess the question is, what weight do these non-career factors play? I'm not all clawing my way to the top of the academic ladder (it's a little tiny ladder with infinite gradations that interest only the people on the rungs) but on the other hand I don't want to do anything so colossally stupid that I'll be bumped off the climb altogether.
Posted by otto0114 at May 24, 2007 06:38 PM