HOLY.FUCKING.SHIT

[hmpf]

Just got an invitation for an interview for the three to six-year university position for which I made my Ph.D. proposal thingie in the last few weeks.

WHAT DO I DO NOW????

(Also, wtf am I doing right, now, that I apparently did wrong the 1.5 years before?)

*boggles*

*frets*

ARRRGH!

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Dude, GO TO THE INTERVIEW. If you get the job, awesome, you have choices, you can choose whether or not to accept it, and you may be able to conditionally accept it - most job offers come on the understanding you may need to work a leave period with an existing job if you have already signed a contract with the comic museum job.

If you don't get the job, you lose nothing and you don't have to wonder.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Err, addition to this - you don't have to tell the job you have WHY you're asking for time off to go to the other interview. I don't see why you need to risk the job you *got* to attend the interview for this job?

Because I don't think I can sign the contract...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

with the museum when there's a chance I may have to back out of it again almost immediately afterwards. I think I'll have to sign sometime in the next couple of weeks - i.e., probably before the university interview. So the university's decision is going to be made maybe a week or two after I've signed the contract here.

I'm not even certain it would be legally *possible* to back out of the contract. And it certainly wouldn't be fair to the museum people if I did.

Re: Because I don't think I can sign the contract...

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Well the fairness issue is one I can understand even if I think you need to put yourself first in this instance. However, at least in the UK, I've never heard of a contract of employment that doesn't include a "notice period" even if the contract is for a fixed term? Like it's often somewhere between a week and two months depending on how long you've been there/what the job is, etc.? I don't know how it works in Germany but in the UK, you'd be legally entitled to back out of the contract as long as you offered them a fair notice period so they could hire someone else.

Re: Because I don't think I can sign the contract...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there is such a thing in Germany, too, but I'm not sure if it's true for my kind of contract because it's this one-year trainee thing. Not sure if the same rules apply there. Will have to find out. But I would much prefer not to have to back out, anyway!

I don't think that starting to work there and backing out after a month would be a good option, though. The uni job would start on the first of April; the museum job on the first of March.

I also need to find out what the pay at the uni would be. It's only a part-time job (50 percent), so it would probably be quite low. Then again, museum trainees are usually only paid about as much as part-timers, so the pay could be similar in both jobs. And the uni job would be for three to six years instead of one to two, so *that's* quite attractive.

Decisions... WHY SO DIFFICULT?