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Why You Should Be Looking Out For Your Own Self Interests
[00:00:00] If you accept an offer, say, in-house or government, but later get a better/preferred offer, how do you "reneg" on the first offer? There's no great way of doing this, but due to time constraints and the possibility that the preferred job might not come through, I might have to accept. What's the best approach? What are the consequences?
You need to look out for your self interests. What is your self interest?
You need to do what's best for you. So, what is best for you?
If burning bridges is okay with you and that's not going to do long-term harm to your career, burning bridges may be the best thing. The consequences are going to be, if you get a bad reputation in a smaller market of turning down offers and things, then people will not talk to you again.
But, if your offer is much better than what's preferred, then you have to be careful. You need to just evaluate your own self interest. And unfortunately, I tell people the same thing. They get an offer and, they don't think it's in their best interest and then you shouldn't take it, or if something comes through and it's not for me, but it's better for you, you need to take it. That's just how it works.
What is your best interest? You have functional, which are things like, pay [00:01:00] benefits, close to home, emotional, happiness. You have to think in terms of everything, short term versus long term.
A lot of people will emphasize money when they're searching. And, I honestly think that's one of the dumbest things you can emphasize thinking in terms of a long-term career. Where could you spend the majority of your career? Where would you be happier over the long term? What is going to make you most happy? You have to look at all these factors and that really will determine what's in your best interest.
I always encourage people to think this way because you have to do what's in your best interest. And sometimes that means upsetting people, but, your self-interest is paramount. You shouldn't make other people more important than you.
Then the final question is, what makes you happy? The reason I'm bringing all this up, because I think a lot of times, people give a lot more credence to what makes other people happy than themselves. And, you have to really worry about what makes you the happiest.
And so I would say all the consequences could be negative. You could upset some people. If you're in a smaller market, you may never be able to work at that place again, but you just never know.
