# Job Interview Offer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122 "2011-09-13T01:46:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/1 "2011-09-13T01:46:46Z")
I’ve been a State of Tennessee employee for more than 15 years, most of them stuck in a dead-end job. And now, an interview offer–Eligibility Councilor 1, at Family & Child Services. Dunno about the wages, or what my chances are, but I’m not turning down a chance to interview. Left a phone message on the lady’s machine this evening, & I will call again tomorrow. I want that interview. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/2 "2011-09-13T01:53:43Z")
Best of luck:cool: ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/3 "2011-09-13T09:55:20Z")
Is that government as well or an NPO? In any case, best of luck! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/4 "2011-09-13T14:53:32Z")
My luck just curdled. Chills, fever, congestion & dizziness. Plus she ain’t returned the calls. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/5 "2011-09-13T15:20:02Z")
With 15 years in the state retirement system, it would take one hell of an offer to get me to leave. You’re what…10 years away from full retirement? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/6 "2011-09-13T16:14:17Z")
**Oak** : It sounds to me like the job opening is also in the State system; just a different location & duties. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/7 "2011-09-13T16:34:12Z")
Ahhh…I missed that. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/8 "2011-09-13T17:36:20Z")
I did very similar work in another state (could even be the same job depending on what the job you mentioned entails - I did Medicaid/Food Stamps but not cash assistance). I loved it - the pay sucked ass but I learned a lot. If you do it you WILL get jaded - don’t fight it, it’s either get jaded or get depressed. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/9 "2011-09-13T17:37:14Z")
Hope the illness doesn’t keep you from applying! Give them a call, and often they can work around it. Coming from a gov’t employee who was stuck in a worst of the worst position for 5+ years, and escaped to a somewhat better one… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/10 "2011-09-13T17:59:24Z")
I had an interview offer from a Department of Defense installation (Cameron Station) once but couldn’t figure out where the entrance was! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/11 "2011-09-14T09:57:31Z")
I’ve called–no reply, just an answering machine. So I emailed. Still sick, & going to my doctor this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-interview-offer/596122/12 "2011-09-19T21:51:05Z")
I have a job, but was trying to move up. But not what I interviewed for. _Even worse than the one I got._ :smack: Turned it down, as many other have, or so that’s the impression I got. Low pay, workload to the max, & 3 months of living in a cheap, bug-ridden motel in another town, while I trained. 50% quitting rate in the first 6 months.