About to start new job and just been offered dream job

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As the title says - I applied for my dream job (multi stage application process) before interviewing for the new position which I was offered around a month ago and am due to start in the next few weeks. New job is a fixed term contract funded for 18 months so they will have lost vital time and may have to rerun the recruitment process.

Today dream job was offered to me. I feel absolutely terrible about it. How do I handle this please?

Take your dream job!

Be honest and explain what has happened.

This is Mumsnet, so you’ll get loads of posts encouraging self- flagellation and you’ll be called selfish and wasting the company’s time and money.

You have to do what’s right for you. It’s a job. It’s a company without thoughts or feelings. Any organisation would let you go if they had to.

You say you feel terrible but if the organisation let YOU go do you think any of them would lose sleep over it or remember your name in a couple of weeks?

Take your dream job. The company will recover far faster from this setback if you do than your career if you don’t. Ignore the the ramblings in the second post. Not true.

Hi
Congrats on getting the dream job.
Don't do anything until you receive a contract and a state date from the dream job.
Only tell the employers of the job you don't want, when you have signed the dream job contract and returned it.
On the off chance that the dream job retract the offer or drag their heels.
We're in an unstable economy and companies budgets are changing all the time.
When is the non dream job due to start?
When is the dream job due to start?
When the time comes tell them that your circumstances have changed, don't tell them you have another job and don't tell them where.

Take the dream job, politely apologise, don’t expect them to make you feel good about it but it’s a bonus if they’re gracious. Move onwards and upwards! Congratulations

Take the dream job.

Take the dream job.

Get a contract for the dream job. Sign it. Do not sign the other contract - have you already?

Is the dream job permanent? Bonus if it is - I imagine any employer would understand someone taking a permanent job over a fixed term post.

The fixed term employers will probably just offer the job to the runner up, I wouldn't worry about them.

Dream job definitely! Congratulations

take the dream job you havent wasted the other employers time happens often that people are offered a job but decline

Another sign the dream job contract, get a start date then tell the other job. No-one will care.

In this situation 25 years ago I took the dream job and I've never regretted it. My whole career has been in the field I wanted to be in, and I've loved it.

Life's too short for handwringing. Apologise profusely and grab that dream job! Good luck OP.

Ignore the ramblings in the second post.

How rude. That post seemed perfectly sensible to me.

Congratulations. Take the dream job!

I would take the dream job, but be very polite and apologetic about it with the other job, particularly if it is in the same industry and one where word gets around. Someone pulled out of a job at my place very dishonourably and word has got around my very small industry and I suspect that person will struggle the next time they are in the market. If it had been dealt with promptly and politely noone would have minded.

Take the dream job. They will offer your position to their second choice.
Go for it.