WWYD - take job?

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DD has just finished her decree course. She's approached a recruitment agency who specialise in graduate jobs, initially about a particular job - not in her chosen field but ticks positive boxes. This afternoon agency have put her in touch with another organisation and they've offered her a job, job goes against her morals, in her mind against what she's studied for and what she'd ideally want to want to do. There is a certain element I think she'd find interesting.

Would you accept, or sit tight? She's willing to do something that doesn't relate to her course as she wants to work. She had two previous interviews, but no job offer. Has possible option of shop work in summer with a store she's had a zero hours contact with for three years.

She's currently on an internship abroad with limited wifi and got cut off when she tried to call us earlier. Just wondering what to say to her in a text.

Morals can cost!

Unless illegal how bad is it? A gambling or oil company? Those companies can pay pretty well.

Do morals pay rent?

Have they offered her a job without interviewing her?

Personally I’d take, needs a first Job on her cv!

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I wouldn't take a job that went against my morals and I'd not advise my children to either. If she has another option then I'd advise her to take that and keep looking.

i would not take a job against my morals. I think it would be awful for mental health. I’d rather work physically harder for less money (eg retail or hospitality) than do a job I felt was basically wrong.

Also the first job on her cv will speak to future employers. If the job is the opposite to what she wants to do in future it could look bad to future employers too.

Take job, gain experience and transferable skills and use it as a springboard to the next job. A lot of grads move jobs in the first few years!

Well what do you mean about going against her morals?

Vegan activist offered a job in an abattoir?

Member of the Howard League for Penal Reform offered a job as a Prison Officer in a Cat A+?

Devout Christian offered a job in an atheist organisation?

Morals are many and may or may not make the job impossible to accept.

It depends what you mean against her morals. I'd never work for a big tobacco company, that's always been a hard line for me, but I've had the privilege to be choosy. Equally if she's made a quick enquiry and already had one job offer, she could possibly hold out for something else.

Thank you. They've interviewed this afternoon (not sure whether on phone/zoom(similar) due to lack of wifi her end. I've messaged her with my mixed thoughts and she'll have to decide. She's been in touch with her tutor at uni, who's advised her to exclude it from her CV if applying for jobs related to her degree. It's not illegal, but goes against what she's studied.

Probably be hard to get a job in her ideal field, but her internship is with a big name in the industry and she's trying to be a bit of networking out there to get her name out.

I think I'd be more wary that she was put in touch with them today and offered a job immediately. Surely any grad role worth having would have more hoops to jump through? Unless it's a totally repugnant industry that no one wants to work in? Has she done due diligence in to the company?