Wednesday, March 09, 2005
I find it fascinating and startling how little time we actually spend thinking about whether to take a particular job offer. Think about other life choices of significance. Taking a new job is less important than whether to get married or to have kids, but it's more important than whether to buy a new car or house, and about as important as which college to attend. We spend far more time thinking about those things, on the order of months or even years, but job decisions often are made in less than a week. That's just bizarre.