I just passed on a tech job offer. It's not a bad job and I would have been good at it, too, but its just not what I want to do.
will I regret this after my other applications fall through? Yeah. I would also regret it if I had to work 40 hours a week doing that job.
I know lots of people working jobs they hate, so what am I doing turning a good one down, right?
Man. I don't know. i followed my instinct on that one. My instinct is fallible as fuck
If you had a bad feeling about it before you even started there then there's a 99% chance that you were going to hate it if you took the job.
You'll never know if it happened to be in that 1% category now but there's no point torturing yourself over it because how many times would you have to roll the dice and take shitty jobs that you hate before you luck out and find a winner?
Better to keep the momentum up in the job hunt and find something that has a better vibe.
That's exactly what I was feeling. There's a chance I wouldn't hate it because I never had a job exactly like it, but I can't even look forward to it. (I'm obfuscating details here) I have experience in both hardware and software/firmware domains, but my interest is mostly on the hardware side and this job is almost pure software. I can do it, but