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Ok so I was offered the job, do I take the job in the city of my recent X g/f?

Asked by tedd (14078points) November 10th, 2010

I was dumped a few weeks back by my long time g/f, and its REALLY got me down (you can read my past threads if you’re interested). Anyways prior to the break up I was trying to get a job in her city (Pittsburgh, I live in Columbus). The job is literally my dream job, a position in a Forensics lab. I’ve spent the last year building experience at a crap job in an analytical lab to make my resume look good. Well go figure after she dumps me they call me back and yesterday I go there and interview. Then this afternoon they call back and officially offer me the job.

It would be a pay raise from what I make now (though only at my main job, if you take into account losing my part time job it’d be less money, but I could probably get another part time). Its literally the dream job for me as far as what it is. After she broke up with me I applied to other Forensics labs across the country but have yet to here back from any others. The problem is I am such a mental mess over the break up and the sort of early mid life crisis it put me into. The drive back from the interview… was awful. I cried the entire first hour and was just a mess the rest of it. It took all of my will power to not call her while I was there, or drive by her dorm or something stupid like that. Which doesn’t have me too confident in the idea of actually moving there permanently.

So the question is do I take this job? And if I do, how do I move to a city where I know no one, and all my memories/knowledge of it involve her, and she lives a few miles from where I’d be working every day….. without having a complete mental break down?

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