So, update on this. I think I’ve made a terrible mistake.

Basically – I panicked about my current job contract ending so quickly and decided that I would try to give living in this city another go…so I applied for a job with the same company, in a different department and in a role in which I felt that I would be much more suited.

Having subsequently been offered the job…I accepted. The job will be great experience (though the salary is very low), the contract is only for 6 months and career-wise, I will be in a much better position to pursue other opportunities once I have finished my term. Having said that, basically as soon as I had accepted, I knew that I had made a mistake.

On the one-hand…it’s only 6 months. on the other hand… it is six more months of living in a place in which I am really, really miserable. I have no connections here and I spend all of my time wishing that I was somewhere else. I just hate this city with a burning passion. I love the company, but it’s not enough and I just don’t think I can take another six-months of being here.

My issue is that I accepted the job about 10 days ago now (nothing has been signed) and from a professional point of view, I know that it is such bad etiquette to turn down a job so late after the offer has been made. The other candidates will have been declined, and there will already have been considerable time and effort spent on the recruitment process. I don’t want to sour relations, but I just cannot take this job. What should I do? It’s really popular place to work and I am confident that they could easily find another candidate…or I could just try to stick it out for six months. Life is too short to be miserable, though.

All of this could have been avoided if I had just trusted myself better to make the right decision. I just feel so stuck and now I’m wasting other people’s time because of my indecision. What can I do to rectify this situation?

Help!!