What would you do?

Got a friend of mine who has a job offer in another state where he clearly doesn't want to go. The money is fair and the position is in his field. He's unemployed right now and believes that something could break after the new year. Should he take the chance and go somewhere he doesn't want to go, or take a gamble on 2007 being better?

 

Only if he can find a neighbor who takes it up the chute.

 

Working beats being unemployed.

Why doesn't he want to go there?

 

If you are unemployed and you don't take a job because you don't want to move there, don't come whining in six months when you're still unemployed because what you thought "could break" broke the wrong way.

 

Maybe he doesn't want to leave his girlfriend behind with boots around.

 

From what I understand, the offer is from a place in Mississippi. He doesn't want to go there. The money would be fine, and this, not to take offense to anyone, would be a far cry from where he is now in northern New Jersey. I think the reasons are valid.

 

His girlfriend is my ex-wife.

 

Guess I was right then!

 

The cost of living difference between northern NJ and Mississippi is huge. His dollars would go twice as far down there.

I don't see why he'd rather be unemployed in New Jersey rather than working in Mississippi. Unless he believes the stereotypes of the South.

 

I'd go to Mississippi. A buddy taught 1st grade in Mound Bayou, which, back then, was one of the poorest parishes in the nation. I'd love to work in Mississippi, anywere in Mississippi.

 

Working beats this hell out of unemployment. And I lived in Mississippi for five years. It's not bad there. There are good people in the state. Those stereotypes of the South are mostly full of shit.

 

He's been there. It's not northern NJ and I think he understands that. Money, you must remember, is relative. While he'll be making good money for Mississippi, it would be poor money overall. I think that is his biggest hangup.