Polls: Education & Career

In other words, the employee hardly shows up to work because of personal matters

Cause here’s what happened for me to post this question. I found 2 driving instructors in my local area. Which surprised me since I live in the middle of nowhere. That I called the woman instructor first. But got a voice message that she’s not taking any students. Then I called the male instructor and he explained to me he’s in a different town and to call the female instructor. I told him I already did and got a message she’s no longer taking students. Till he let me know “oh yeah, because her daughter is in rodeo and she’s helping her with that and traveling.” That I made a comment saying “I’m sorry to say and not to sound rude here, but she doesn’t sound like a reliable person for this job. If her personal life is affecting it. Have you thought about hiring someone else?” But he was excusing her behavior and said “no no no, I’ve known her for years and I trust her completely. It’s not her fault her daughter is in rodeo.” 🙄

If you had the option to only choose between these two jobs, which you choose? This is just a hypothetical. I'm not saying this necessarily happens irl or it at least doesn't happen all the time. If you only receive two job offers out of all the jobs you applied for but your only options are to choose your dream job or choosing a job that is close to where you live with a short commute then which would you choose? Your dream job is thousands of miles from where you live so you would have to move.

You're not excited about the job that is close to where you live. You have a feeling that you'll dislike it or you may even hate it once you start working it. It would be a tough decision for many people to make because some people may not want to move so far away because of family, homesickness, or other reasons. At the same time, no one likes being stuck in a job he/she hates. It would be a hard decision for me to make too if I had to make it.

So I barely learned about financial literacy until my early 20s when I started working as a nurse for a wealthy caucasian family. The daughter pulled me to the side and said ," you're young are you investing in your future? Life insurance policies, 401k, ira , stocks etc. You should ve contributing x amount to this so by the time you're this age you have x amount of money." I had no idea wtf she was talking about then she educated me and from there I did my research and opened an ira then dumped 48k in my early 20s.