If you’ve been laid off and currently don’t have a job, do you take the first offer you can get? Or hold out for the possibility of a role you may like better.

I have an interview at an agency that’s not crazy exciting to me, but right now it’s better than absolutely nothing

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You don’t owe any employer loyalty. Take the offer and keep looking

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The best thing I did was take a holdover job at an agency and then kept looking. Left that agency after a handful of months to go onto the role I love now.

Only have loyalty to yourself in this biz

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Take it.
Don't update your LinkedIn status
Keep looking for something better.

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That’s a delicious fact sandwich 🔥

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Of course you take anything you can get in this crazy economy. I’d scrub toilets for 70k idgaf

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Is it us? I would love to you get you excited.

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I’m excited

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Try to slow roll it as much as you can

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I don’t think we’re at the end of the layoffs and hiring freezes. Things are going to get worse. Take the job.

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Ask if they’ll let you freelance as a trial. Then keep looking for a job you do like while you collect a check.

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I have a good idea. Ask then if they’ll let you freelance as a trial while you look for a job that you do like while you collect a check.

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