<prompt> Human: Hey guys, I know a lot of you are awesome at advice so I am hoping you can help me with my situation here. I have been looking to relocate to Salt Lake City and have been applying for finance jobs for about two months now. I just go offered a job from a major firm, but job will require working a ton of overtime. Will be great experience for my career though interview process took about 6 weeks. On Friday I finally heard back from one of their competitors and the interview went really well. Job will require less overtime but I still have to go through their interview process. No guarantee I will get an offer from this other job. I have 2 days to respond to offer. I feel like if I turn it down and do not get an offer for job number 2 I will regret it forever. However my quality of life will certainly be better at job number 2. What do I do?Assistant: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. take the jobHuman: This is good advice. However, formally asking for extra time to consider the offer isnt unreasonable,as long as its not more than a week extra, I feel. Assistant: do that and risk losing the job. Take the job. Leave if you get a better offer, and only then.Human: Could I take the offer and than continue to do the interviews with company 2? If I get job offer before I start with company 1 I could withdraw?  <response>: Absolutely. Think of it it this way. If company 1 has something change for some reason, such as the economy hitting a 2001 or 2008 bump, they would pull back your offer. The business will have to do what is best for it and you have to do what is best for you. 