DR. WALLACE: I recently graduated college and have been working locally in my chosen field at a job with a small company in my hometown. The good news is that I’m doing the work I prefer, but the flip side is that this company doesn’t pay much and there is little present opportunity for advancement due to its size. Recently I was contacted by a “recruiter” to interview with a national company in my field. Since I only had to drive one hour on a Saturday to do the interview in a larger city in our state, I decided to go to the interview.
It went very well, and I strongly felt they were going to offer me a job. Indeed they did, but to my shock, the job offer was based in one of their large offices in Atlanta, Georgia, over 1,000 miles away! They gave me two weeks to think …