[spaceid]

So I have hit a nice patch of good luck lately. I graduated with a bachelor's in May and have been working two part time jobs. Last week I was offered a full time job and on Thursday I signed the offer letter. However, the next day I received an email from my university asking me to come in for an interview at a job I really wanted and applied to a month before the job that I signed the offer for. I do not want to miss this opportunity and I have the interview scheduled for this Friday. However, the Monday after I start my new full-time job that I already signed the offer for.

I have never been in this situation before I am do not know what do to if the second job also gives me an offer. By that point will already be working for the first job. Most jobs have their advantages. The first job would give me time to go to graduate school. The second job pays twice as much and is at my university which is where I wanted to work in the first place, but would be in the evenings and I would not be able to go to grad school. However, I have basically already decided that if offered I will take the second job. This just means I will have to quit the first job after only working there for a few weeks. In my offer letter it says that I may resign from the company at will without reason and they may let me go at will as well.

I feel bad because I am a loyal person and not a quitter, but the second job would be a better offer for me and a more challenging position. People have told me that business is business and I should not be worried about resigning from the first job if need be. Has anyone else had to deal with this?

[purplepearl]

Yes, I've had a very similar situation. I was working part-time PRN at one job after graduation and had a great interview at the University. My supervisor at my part-time job had inquired previous to the interview at the University if I was interested in moving into a full-time position and at the time I had said yes. However, she never mentioned it again and I never received a formal offer. The University then offered me a full-time position and I took it, not knowing that the same day my supervisor had mentioned I'd be joining her team full-time in the staff meeting. Though it was slightly embarrassing at the time, I explained to my supervisor that while I was grateful for the opportunity, the University was a job I couldn't pass up and had to decline the full-time position. She took it well, and I even continued to PRN with them for the next two months until working two jobs became too stressful.

I wouldn't worry too much about it until after you've had the interview and you can better determine the likelihood of being offered the job. Honestly, people do this more often than you'd think: start one job, only to be offered a better or more appealing job shortly into their employment, so they leave early-on. It doesn't mean you're a flake or that you're not loyal, it just means that it wasn't the right job right now for you.